This will be the thread where I post all the fire alarm pictures I take, including the ones at my college unless I note about upgrades, which go in a separate thread…
I will start with the David E. Crosby administration building/City Hall Annex, where I worked part-time for back in the summer of 2005. Like I said, they have a Simplex 4208 fire alarm system installed in 1977. The panel is there and in great condition, but I did not take a picture. They have Simplex 4051 horns on 4050-80 light plates with “FIRE” on the lens, and 4251-30 break-glass pulls. One of the 4050-80 plates has a Simplex 2901-9806 horn in it. Here are some pics from their system…
Outdoor Gamewell box, and next to it is the Simplex annunciator. I’ve seen one like that at the Fine Arts building at Brockton High School.
An Edwards heat detector.
Simplex 4051/4050-80 horn/light and 4251-30 pull and Edwards heat. Note that there is either no glass in the frame on the pull station, or there IS glass but with no lettering.
How unusual is this? A 4251-30 pull station but the glass just reads “BREAK GLASS!” No “BREAK GLASS PULL HANDLE DOWN,” like most of the other pulls have. My theories are that either this was the original installation, or maybe the old glass was broken and this was replacement glass that came out the same time when Simplex introduce the 4099-9002 and its non-addressable variant of the break-glass pulls.