Went to my brother’s basketball league’s Christmas party tonight at the VFW in Whitman. Again, the system hasn’t changed, but here’s a recap with a few other things I found in it. It was probably originally installed in the late 1970s or early 1980s
Signals are Wheelock 34 horns behind SAE AV32 light plates. I find it weird why they went with the gray 34 horns instead of just easily using the red ones and putting them behind the light plates, so it matches easier.
Pull stations are older Notifier BNG-1TSLs.
This Wheelock 34+AV32 was installed upside-down!
System Sensor i3 smokes in the main banquet hall. These appear to be replacing the following:
Older Adaemco smoke detectors. These can be found in other parts of the building.
Chemtronics 400-series heat sensor in the men’s restroom.
Wheelock RSS weatherproof strobe outside, and underneath it is a Gamewell city box.
It’s been a while, but here are some more pictures! These are at the main Brockton Public Library…
The Simplex 4606-9101 annunciator, displaying a “NORMAL” condition. The system was not reset for daylight savings time yet, though.
The fire alarm panels. It’s pretty much just as I predicted; a Simplex 4010 fire alarm control panel with a 4003 voice-evacuation panel, and underneath there is a 4009 NAC extender panel. Pretty interesting setup; I imagine this is a decent lower-cost Simplex voice-evac alternative to the 4100U.
Another Simplex TrueAlert speaker/strobe with no TrueAlert logo on the top.
This 4099-9003 pull station was being blocked by crates!
Simplex heat sensor in some kind of electrical closet.
Near the elevator there is a remote TrueAlert strobe (also sans the TrueAlert logo) and 4099-9003 pull.
Simplex TrueAlarm smoke detector in a mechanical room. It appears to be a 4098-9714 photoelectric head on the 4098-9792 base. It is also apparently the only non-elevator recall smoke detector in the whole building! (They DO have a lot of sprinklers though.)
Simplex 2098-9806 test stations behind a bookshelf.
Today I visited the Boston Museum of Science. Since I had my camera and took plenty of pics of the exhibits, I also got in some alarm pics too. It’s actually a rather inconsistent sort of system…
These account for the alarm signals in the main area. 10" Gamewell bells behind red grilles with remote Simplex 2904 lights or strobes.
Many of the pull stations are these; Gamewell Centuries with Stopper IIs. They don’t have “LOCAL ALARM” on them, so these are a later installation. This part of the museum was built in 1950, before the Century pulls came out, so that wouldn’t surprise me.
System Sensor 2400 smoke detector.
Some type of Notifier smoke detector.
The cafe mainly had these Wheelock E-series speaker/strobes with the LSM strobe.
Notifier BG-10 pull station with Stopper II.
Wheelock E70 speaker/strobe above that pull.
Another Gamewell bell and Simplex 2904 strobe.
Notifier NBG-12LX pull underneath that.
The Green wing mainly has these 6" Wheelock bells on pre-ADA strobe plates, but they can also be found in the Blue wing exhibit hall.
Wheelock E70 speaker/strobes in the “Living on the Edge” exhibit.
I found this in a handicapped-accessibility hallway; a Simplex bell grille and a remote 4050-80 light! I’m not sure if there is still a bell behind that grille, as it looks like it’s boarded up behind it, but it could be likely. These were the old alarms in the Theater of Electricity. This wing was built in 1979-1980, and most likely had a Simplex 2001 panel originally.
Simplex 4251-30 pull station. Note that the glass is missing and the hammer is crooked.
That black thing you see on the wall is another bell grille in the Theater of Electricity. It has been painted black and boarded up behind it, the remote 4050-80 light removed, and a Wheelock E70 speaker/strobe mounted near it.
The 4251-30s were replaced with NBG-12LXs.
Notifier smoke detector.
Another former Simplex bell grille. Looks like the bells were 6" models, judging by the size (they remind me of the ones at the Davis K-8 school).
Another Wheelock E70 and NBG-12LX.
I found this at the live butterfly garden. ANOTHER old Simplex 4050-80 light and bell grille! I am positively sure there isn’t a bell there, as a Wheelock E70 was not too far from it.
Simplex 4251-30 pull underneath that alarm. It is the only pull station in the butterfly garden.
Butterfly on the sprinkler! Most of the other sprinklers in the building are concealed.
Gamewell Century pull in the green wing. Looks like there may have been another pull above it originally until it was replaced.
Another Wheelock E70.
NBG-10L pull. This is the only non-Simplex pull I found without a Stopper II.
System Sensor ion smoke, used for elevator recall.
Gamewell Century pull with some kind of bell above it. It might have been one of the original alarms; if not, maybe it was a coding bell for an older pull station? It’s pretty strange…
I have LOTS of comments as we have been PMing eachother about this today. I am also very familiar with the system and would like to give some more details I know about.
Ah yes. I bet that the Gamewell bells were put in in the 60s or 70s, and the Simplex 2904 lights were added on in the 80s when Simplex serviced the system. I can tell they are add ons as when I looked last time, they didn’t look like they were originally on the grilles (and tpirman1982 noticed Gamewell logos on the bells). Also, the biggest proof that I know that they were added on later, is that one of the bells in the entrance to the former Harry Potter exhibit did NOT have a 2904 light on it. It also had a pull beneath it.
Yeah I bet that these were installed later since they are mounted lower and don’t look super old.
The cafe was renovated in the late 90s. I remember the old cafe was more of a bakery, where as the current cafe is a more typical museum cafe. I was too young to remember the bakery’s alarms, but I do know that it makes sense that they used Wheelock E70s as they seem to use voice evac for current alarms in the museum, and Wheelock made the older E70s in the late 90s. They also have…
Notifier NBG-10s in the cafe because the museum goes with Notifier alarms since the late 90s.
Some of the Gamewell Centuries got replaced with BG-12s. This one is found in the gift shop/cafe lobby.
These alarms account for another majority of the museum’s alarms. I bet that they put these in in the 80s when they upgraded the alarms in those wings. The pulls in those wings are Gamewell centuries.
The newest alarms the museum has are these. Most of them are found in the Theater of Electricity and one is also in the gift shop. These were replacing the old Simplex alarms in the theater.
I was the first person to spot out this alarm when the door to the hallway was knocked into and opened. It was the first 4050-80 remote light I had seen in person (and I told wiley209 about this alarm so he knew where to look for it). I also now know that the bell was removed. So I bet that the Notifier installers forgot to remove and even to replace these devices.
This pull is found under the alarm above.
Yup, those are found all over the Theater of Electricity.
These are the newest pulls the museum has and are mostly found with the newer E70s or as replacements to the Gamewell Centuries.
This one I didn’t even know about! It looks like that these alarms were found in the butterfly garden too!
Once again it looks like the Notifier installers forgot to replace a pull.
LOL I’m surprised it didn’t go off.
There is also an NBG-12 in the computer lab that doesn’t have a Stopper II.
I completely forgot to tell you about this alarm! I now agree with you that these were the original signals, as this is older than all the others. When I first saw this. I thought that it was still in use. But now, here’s my theory. The large cover under the alarm probably replaced an old Gamewell dual action or coded pull (similar to the ones at NJHS and EJHS). The oldest alarms were flush mounted 6 inch bells like the alarm in this picture. I will look for any other remains next time I visit the museum. It’s good that you noticed this.
Here are some other devices not pictured above that I have noticed:
One pull that you did not get to (and probably couldn’t due to exhibits in the area), is a Notifier NBG-1 w/ a Stopper II on it located in the former Harry Potter exhibit. Strangely, it was located right near a Gamewell Century pull and bell/light combo. I have no idea whether this was replacing an old pull (and there could have been a former dividing wall) or whether its part of an older system, but I doubt that.
Also, there is a Space Age Electronics VA4 found in the Omni Theater’s maintenance room (with windows viewing it). The alarms in the space exhibit are Wheelock bell/strobes.
Another alarm was removed: A Wheelock 6 inch bell/strobe was removed from the hallway by the human body exhibit. The Gamewell pull below it is still intact.
I actually noticed that today, too! I was like “That’s strange… shouldn’t there be an alarm over there?” I didn’t think that much, as a Wheelock E70 was not too far from it.
BTW, a butterfly can’t set off a sprinkler; only heat can. Unless that giant Atlas Moth was actually a relative of Mothra and had psychic powers to break the heat thingy on the sprinkler
Here are some pictures of the fire alarm system at the Oak Point retirement home in Middleboro, MA, where we went last Saturday to perform as part of my college’s drama club. They have two Simplex systems…
The 1990s wing of the building has a Simplex 4010 fire alarm system. That thing next to it is a Secutron monitoring device.
The signals in this wing are Simplex 4903-9238 electronic horn/strobes. The restrooms have 4903-9137 remote strobes. There is also at least one TrueAlert, installed after the building was added onto.
The pulls are Simplex 2099-9795 single-action T-bars.
The newer wing has a Simplex 4100U fire alarm system! Also note the Secutron monitoring device and 2098-9806 test stations next to it.
The signals in this wing are multi-candela TrueAlert horn/strobes.
The pulls are Simplex 4099-9003 T-bars.
The smoke detectors in both wings of the building are all newer Simplex TrueAlarms.
Here are some new pics of the alarms at the David E. Crosby Administration building. As I said, the building was built in 1932, but was renovated in 1977 and has a Simplex 4207 fire alarm panel that is STILL there and in good working order! (They told me they often change the batteries.)
Here’s something pretty unique; a Simplex 2901-9806 horn on a 4050-80 light plate! There are two of them in the basement level (I checked the tag on one of them, and they are indeed 2901-9806s.) These are either original, or they are replacement horns.
Naturally, all the pull stations are Simplex break-glass 4251-30s.
The other 4050-80s in the building have Simplex 4051 horns.
Here is a 4051+4050-80 on a backbox. Note how the horn is tilted. I’m not surprised one of the alarms is on a backbox like this, as it is not the original system to when the building was built.
Here is a 4251-30 that is missing the break hammer!
Here are pics of the fire alarm systems at the Quincy Market in Boston, MA…
These account for the majority of the alarms in the main building. Simplex TrueAlert horn/strobes and 2099-series pulls (the one here was a 2099-9103 or 2099-9796 with the break-hammer and glass missing). One pub had TrueAlert speaker/strobes, and another area had a Mircom annunciator, so I suspect this is a Simplex and Mircom system tied in together.
TrueAlert horn/strobe with NO cover on it! Also note the backbox underneath, which was obviously where an old alarm was (probably a Simplex 4050-80 or SAE AV32).
These are the main alarms in the North Building; Simplex 4051+4050-80s! They look a lot like the one I own.
Some of the pulls are Simplex 2099-9756s. Others are Simplex 4251-30s.
4051+4050-80 above a 4251-30 pull with no glass mechanism!
Old Simplex annunciator. I think it goes to a Simplex 2001 panel. Not sure if they still have the 2001; chances are they upgraded to a Simplex 4005 or something.
Ancient Simplex bell in an alcove near the exit stairway.
The stores have Wheelock NS horn/strobes for the most part, but the Newbery Comics has SpectrAlert Advances and a BG-12 pull (as part of a separate system of some kind), and an art gallery has a Simplex 4051+4050-80 and 4251-30 pull.
The South Building has a Mircom system for the main fire alarm system, judging by this annunciator.
The main alarms are Wheelock AS horn/strobes, replacing 4051+4050-80s from the old Simplex system. Some stores have Wheelock NSs too.
The original pulls from the old system are Simplex 4251-20s. Some of them were replaced with 2099-9756 pulls, and at least one break-glass 2099-9103.
A few of the stores do have a Simplex system with 4903 horn/strobes and 2099-9754 pulls.
Nope; it’s a VERY old building. The first pic I took was on the building’s first floor, the other was on the third floor. I guess they didn’t bother to renovate the whole place, and they just upgraded the fire alarm system some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Visited the Oscar F. Raymond K-8 school today, to see a teacher I knew from when I was younger. Now, as I said, I did not go to this school, but a few of my friends did, and I know some of the staff there from other schools. It is pretty much identical to the Davis K-8 school, where I had kindergarten. Some things are different, and some things aren’t. This includes the fire alarm system (I found it easier to just post pics of the system here instead of in separate threads, including moving some of the older pics to here.)
The school has two fire alarm panels; a Simplex 4010 (on the left) and a Simplex 4208 (on the right). The 4208 is obviously the original panel from when the school was built in 1974. Judging by the condition it’s in (all zones are in “ALARM” mode while the 4010 shows a “Normal” condition), I imagine the 4208 is nearing the end of its life, and is being used for terminal wiring, as well as possibly a place to stuff Zone Adapter Modules for the 4010 (as you can see, the system has four zones). The 4010 obviously controls the newer duct detectors, and is probably also used for controlling the system during fire drills and whatnot.
The signals are Simplex 4051 horns on 4050-80 light plates; to be precise, it is the variation of the 4050-80 where the horn’s front is perfectly lined up with the retrofit plate.
Not all the 4050-80s are in the best condition, however. This one in the small gymnasium has both the bulb and the lens missing, and the light holder has been beaten up a bit. Seeing as it is in a gymnasium, I am not surprised it has taken some kind of beating. BTW, that grille next to it is not part of the fire alarm system; they are 6-inch Simplex 4090 bells that are part of the school’s bell system.
Two of the Simplex 4050-80s (one in the music room, one outside the library) have had the lens ripped off, exposing the light bulb. It seems the bulb looks a bit bigger than the one used on my 4050-80 and my 2903 light plates. Could these be an older version, or are they actually 4050-82s? (I know the horns are definitely DC.)
At least two of the 4050-80s are this rare version, which has the word “FIRE” on the lens in white instead of the usual black. Interesting how this system has a few 4050-80s with “FIRE” lettering while all the others do not.
THIS 4051+4050-80, however, is on a surface-mount backbox due to rewiring purposes (I think this occurred when they upgraded panels or they added the modular back in the 1990s.) It actually looks neat this way, compared to the Davis K-8 school, which has a 4051 horn on two 4X4 backboxes mounted onto the 4050-80.
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The pull station underneath that. All of the pulls in the school are, of course, Simplex 4251-30s. For the most part, they are in good condition like this one.
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Some of them recently had the glass replaced, as some of the students seem to have broken the glass for fun (I remember seeing a good amount of these pulls with no glass in them).
Here is a 4251-30 that has the glass, frame and hammer missing altogether! I imagine at one time the glass was broken or the alarm was pulled, and they simply did not go to the trouble of resetting the break-glass part, and just converted it into a single-action pull.
Most of the ceiling initiating devices are Simplex 4255-1 heat detectors. These can be found in classrooms, in restrooms, and in offices.
The cafetorium has this old mechanical Simplex heat detector. IDK the model number, it is probably in the 42xx-series range.
These Simplex 2098-9806 test stations can also be found throughout the building. I think they replaced the duct detectors some time in the 1980s or 1990s, and that’s when these were installed (this would explain why the school has two fire alarm panels).
The Simplex graphic annunciator in the main lobby. It looks like the kind seen on Simplex 2001 systems in the 1980s, so I think at one point they had a 2001 tied into the 4208. Today when I was here, the annunciator was presenting a Trouble condition. That curved piece of paper on the bottom of the annunciator is instructions on if the system is showing certain alarm conditions or trouble, mentioning the old Simplex 4208 and the “new panel” (the Simplex 4010).
Pretty interesting setup, IMO, especially regarding the panels and duct detectors.
Well, North Junior High School STILL has that ancient Gamewell fire alarm system, similar to East Junior High but with Faraday 129 flush-mount horns:
As you can see, they still have the old IBM clocks and 4015-6A bells, too. (They also still have the Simplex 6400 master time panel.)
I also visited one of my old favorite teachers at the Raymond K-8 school across the street to catch up on old times, and I got a few more pics there too:
The Simplex 4051+4050-80 outside the library with the missing lens! Note the type of light bulb (it is bigger than on my 4050-80), and how the frame thingy the light goes into looks a bit different than my 4050-80 as well. I may post a comparison pic some time soon.
Here is the Simplex annunciator in the main lobby in Trouble mode. It doesn’t have any trouble alarm of any kind (no bell, buzzer or piezo), so it isn’t that noticeable unless you look right at it.
Note on the annunciator for the fire department or anyone else working on the system. (The tape was coming loose on one side so I had to hold it up.) According to this, it appears the Simplex 4010 panel is used for the duct detectors, and the 4208 panel is for everything else (i.e. the pull stations and heat sensors). It is apparent this annunciator was installed when the duct detectors were redone, which may have been in the 1980s or 1990s.
The Simplex 6351 master time panel in the main office. Note how it appears to be installed onto the original time panel cabinet (you can make out part of the label on the old panel behind the Simplex 6351.) They were considering putting the bells on separate circuits so the middle school students would have a separate schedule from the elementary school students.
That is not a securtron device. That is a SigCom radio box. http://www.sigcom.com/products/details/?id=6 It reports dierectly to the local fire department or wherever dispatching for the municipality takes place.
Revisited my old summer program teacher at the Raymond K-8 school today. I also got a few alarm pics on my way out. So far not much has changed, but I do know a bit more about the system now…
Close-up of the Simplex 4010 fire alarm panel. Like I said, this panel is mostly used for the duct detector units. It looks EXACTLY like the panel at Brockton Public Library (the beige color and everything).
Here is a note explaining why the alarm indicators are all lit up on the Simplex 4208, which is surprisingly STILL intact and appears to be functioning perfectly, even with the aid of the 4010…
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That note explains that when the panel is like this, it is completely normal. Dan B. explained to me that this is the supervisory current passing through the bulb filaments. He also told me if a light happens to burn out, it would result in a Trouble condition on the 4208. Should a zone go into alarm, the light gets brighter. There is also a key in the “DRILL” switch. I guess this might be how they set off the alarm for fire drills, or maybe this was from when they were testing the system recently.
Another shot of the two panels. Note the ladder blocking the 4208. I hope it is only temporary!
Here is a shot of one of the 4051+4050-80s that has the white “FIRE” lettering, still intact. The Davis school doesn’t have any of these.
Here’s a VERY crooked 4051+4050-80. Seems the alarms here aren’t in as good condition as the Davis school’s alarms are.
I also found a 4251-30 pull station that now has the glass missing! It is right outside Pod 1. I notified a janitor about it, and he knew about it and said they are going to replace the glass soon (this is not the first time this has happened; roughly a third of the school’s pulls have replacement glass in them.)
Here are a few pictures I’ve been meaning to post up for a while now. They are at the Raymond K-8 school, where I actually discovered there ARE a few newer fire alarm devices on the system (besides the Simplex 4010 panel and duct detector units).
Here is the Simplex 4251-30 pull that I mentioned that has the glass missing. This is the only one I found like this; all the others have glass in them (many of them original, but others have replacement glass).
The Simplex 4050-80 above it has a rather noticeable chip in the lens. Quite a few of them in the building are like this.
They still have the 1980s Simplex annunciator in the main lobby, but at least this time it wasn’t in Trouble mode! They haven’t gotten around to retaping that note about which panels are for what onto the annunciator yet.
This is in a classroom that was formerly the multi-purpose room. (The Davis school has a computer lab in this area.) Again, this alarm has a chip in the lens, but the pull underneath it is just fine. The bells were not changed either (and they still have the Simplex 6351 master clock panel as well.)
This 4051 horn in the library/media center is crooked a bit, and the lens is cracked, and the 4251-30 pull has replacement glass in it.
Notice the font on the glass of this 4251-30 pull station. It appears to be the original, as I’ve seen quite a few 1970s Simplex systems where the glass looks like this.
The alarm above it is a little dusty, but appears to be in pretty good condition.
Here’s another 4251-30; this one was actually a stand-alone pull with no alarm above it, located in a hall near the cafetorium and one of the classroom pods. Notice the font on the glass looks a bit different than the other one. I imagine the glass was replaced in the 1980s or early 1990s, since it looks a bit newer (I believe Simplex dropped “PULL HANDLE DOWN” from their pull station glass panes in the mid-1990s.)
Simplex 4255-1 heat detector in the kitchen area. As I said, these are the main heat sensors, though the cafetorium has an older mechanical heat detector.
The pull station in the kitchen is an Edwards 270-SPO! It is obviously a replacement pull, as it looks quite new (note the font on the lever, and how it also says “FIRE ALARM” on top and has no logo on the bottom.)
But the alarm above it has seen better days. I tried fixing the “FIRE” lens when nobody was looking, but it wouldn’t stay in place.
A few areas of the building also have Simplex 4265 heat detectors.
I found this in a small room near the old boys’ locker room and the boiler room. It’s a Simplex 4903-9236 horn/strobe! (I checked through the grille, and I saw the green 15-candela sticker on the strobe.) I was surprised to find this in the building! (But I wasn’t that surprised they went with a newer Simplex horn/strobe, though.) I imagine this room was renovated or fixed up, as it looks like it may have replaced a 4051+4050-80. Not sure if it runs off the Simplex 4208 or the 4010 though…
Unusually, the pull stations are Autocall models! It appears they just ripped the old 4251-30 pull out of the wall, or they were a bit lazy when the wall was redone. There are two pulls in this room, even though it is kind of small and there is only one alarm. Not sure why they didn’t just use Simplex pulls…
Chemtronics 600-series heat detector in the same room. I know Simplex rebranded these in the 1980s and 1990s (not sure if this is their version though.)
Today I stopped by West Junior High School, since my parents went there back in 1970-1972, and because my former eighth grade science teacher was now the principal there! West was the first of the four 1950s junior high schools built in Brockton, in 1952. In 2007-2008 they had a renovation of sorts. Also, unlike other schools that had fire alarm upgrades, THIS school still has devices from the old system still intact, but disconnected/no longer active!
Here is the control panel: it is a Notifier ONYX NFS-3030 voice-evacuation system. I am sure East Middle School will use a system like this if they go with Notifier. Also, as you can tell by the picture, the pulls are NBG-12LXs.
Here is one of the old fire alarm horns. It appears to be a Faraday Type 2! I bet fire drills here were REALLY loud before the upgrade. Note that it was painted over, most likely during the renovation, as well as the bell next to it. It looks almost like a 6-inch IBM bell! But I’m not sure if it’s the IBM version, as I did see a couple bells like that in the gym that weren’t painted over, and I couldn’t make out the company name on them. I think they may have been National Time or something (Autocall originally made these bells, then other companies rebranded them.) I was told that most of these bells no longer work, except in a few areas (probably larger rooms like the cafeteria or gymnasium); the rest of the school just has a tone over the intercom and some kind of signal on the school’s computer system.
Of course, like many of the Brockton schools, the clock system is Simplex. They have a Simplex 2350 master time panel, like East Middle School used to have! Also note the Gamewell master box, as well as what look like the original fire alarm controls near it (which are now obviously disconnected.)
Throughout the school they have these Notifier FPS-851 smoke detectors. The school does not have a sprinkler system yet (but should in the near future).
The new audible/visual signals throughout the school are the older version of the SpectrAlert speaker/strobe. They are kind of large, and do not look as nice as the newer Advance version.
Here’s a new alarm mounted near an old alarm and bell. I guess they found the old bells and fire horns too difficult to remove, so they just left them there disconnected and painted over.
Interestingly, unlike the other recently-upgraded schools, they only put remote strobes in the classrooms! You can tell this upgrade was done after System Sensor discontinued the “classic” SpectrAlert horn/strobes and remote strobes, and right before they introduced the Advance version of the speaker/strobes.
Notice that blue plate underneath the old Faraday horn? That was where an old Gamewell pull station used to be (the large old dual-action model resembling a street box). I was told all but a few of them were removed, and the ones still intact no longer work but have a new pull station put nearby (but they should at least put an “OUT OF ORDER” sign on any existing old pulls.)
The restrooms have the remote strobes as well, but they are ceiling-mounted! I think it would’ve made more sense to use a ceiling-mount remote strobe than put the wall-mount version on the ceiling.
I found this on the second floor. Apparently, one of the old Faraday horns broke down some time in the 1980s or 1990s, and was replaced with a Federal Signal Vibratone 350 horn! Even though it wasn’t painted over, it is also obviously no longer active.
Very interesting stuff, even if the old system is no longer active.
Here’s the alarm system at the YMCA Youth Center in my city, where one of my brother’s friends has swim practice. They have a rather unusual Simplex system (the building was built maybe in the 1920s or 1930s, and has been added onto/fixed up over the years.)
The fire alarm panel is a Simplex 4006 (and it’s only a few months old!) Previously they had a Simplex 2001, but this August they went and gutted the 2001 and installed the new 4006 system right into the old cabinet. I have to admit it looks pretty cool this way. Also note the Silent Knight power supply above it; that was already there when the 4006 was installed, and was probably put in some time in the 1990s or early 2000s. There’s also a Simplex 2901-9806 horn on the panel used as an alarm signal for the main lobby, and not pictured is a 6-inch Adapt-a-bel used as an external trouble signal.
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The majority of the alarms in the old wing are Gentex Commander horn/strobes. I think these are replacing older Vibratone horns, judging by the backboxes they are on. These were also installed long before the 4006 was put in.
These Simplex heat sensors can be found throughout the building. There are also a few older Chemtronics heat sensors.
The swimming pool that was added in the 1980s has Simplex 2901-9833 horns on 2903 visual plates. These were obviously installed when the 2001 was put in.
Edwards Adapt-a-horn in the pool room that has nothing to do with the fire alarm. It must be related to the pool’s water system or something.
Several of the pulls are these older Gamewell Centuries. This suggests the building had a Gamewell fire alarm system installed some time in the 1960s or early 1970s.
Of course, there are also some Simplex pulls present. This 4251-20 is outside the weight room, and judging by the backbox it is on, this is replacing a Gamewell Century that broke down in the 1980s.
But the swimming pool room has 2099-9756 pull stations! I am guessing these are replacing 4251-20s or something.
Another Simplex 2903+2901-9833 alarm and 2099-9756 pull in the pool room. I’m guessing that pull station is on the conduit like that because it’s replacing an older pull that was mounted much higher (that is typically how Simplex replaces non-ADA pulls.)
Additionally, a new elevator was built around the same time the 4006 panel was put in. Elevator recall smoke detectors are System Sensor 2251s, and there’s also a SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobe on each floor next to the elevator doors.
