This is over 100 alarms ranging from 1999 all the way through 1963!
Ive
been collecting since 2018.
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Welcome to the forums! Wow that’s a lot…excellent collection there! You’ve certainly single-handedly helped preserve many detectors that would have been unceremoniously thrown in the trash! (& thus been forgotten by history!)
Interesting how going by the layout you have there (provided it’s in chronological/historical order of course) detectors started off mainly round, then were pretty much always square in the 70s, & then went back to round (perhaps that was from manufacturers trying to get the public interested in buying smoke detectors with a new gimmick, in this case a new shape (which they might have also advertised as blending in better with home decor than round detectors).
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New Acquisition “First Alert SA76RC from Circa 1985” This was First Alerts replacement for the SA76RS and SA76R’s and preceded the SA76RD and SA67D’s .This unit was made in a few variations including the elusive 8 slot and the basically extinct hinged cover variation"No im not talking about the SA76RD".
New Acquisition “Guardion FB-1 from Circa 1978” This was Guardions very first 9v powered unit coming out alongside the FRU-2 & FRU-2L’s. There was also an very rare and unusual variant of the FB-1 which had a test button. This unit uses a Kobishi CLB 27 and sounds basically identical to a BRK 77R/Smoke Alert SA76RS.
New Acquisition “BRK 769AC From Circa 1975” this is the original design for the BRK 769AC/ACI. This was quickly replaced by the brk 77r cover variations which we’ve all come to know and love. This unit uses a very rare “No Name” horn similar to some Honeywell TC49A’s and sounds similar to the FireX FXC-1 and FXW-1’s.
Excellent acquisitions! Wow, can’t say I’ve ever seen that 769AC variant before: had no idea it once used the same cover as all of BRK’s (or rather First Alert’s) other units! Was it the first to have a different cover design from all the other SA-series units of that time?
You say that but it looks a lot like a Kobishi CLB-23 to me (though it does lack the “pin” in the very center that CLB-23s (if not most Kobishi horns) typically have).
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That cover was (from what i know) first used on brk devices “769AC, 76R” and was meant to look similar to the predecessors, such as the SS729, SS749, and SS74R. And as for the horn, I have no clue as it doesn’t have any kind of kobishi markings not even on the underside of the horn.
Oh? Alright. It wouldn’t happen to have a solidly-glowing green LED instead of a red one would it? (since I swear I’ve seen at least one photo of an AC-powered First Alert unit with that kind of cover & a green LED)
Well it otherwise seems to be nearly identical to the CLB-23 used in the Honeywell TC49A, so it seems like that’s what it is (funny how it seems like it’s the only horn out of all the horns Kobishi made for smoke detectors to have been used on only one or two models).
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New Acquisition “Jameson CODE ONE 2000 Model E From Circa 1993” These units came out in around 1990 along side the CODE ONE 2000 Model A’s, and were the successors to the slightly rarer CD-24’s. Interesting fact, they actually made a variant of the Model E that had a clear lense and test button.
Neat. That yellow escape light & test button sure are unique (unless they’re yellowed from age). Did they seriously just take a photo of another model & “cut a hole” in the cover with an image editor to represent the escape light though? (for the packaging art)
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Nice! I’ve got the Kidde rebranded version (KSA-700 iirc). These are quite nice units imo
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No, the unit pictured on the box is a rare variant that had a clear button and lense unlike most which use the yellow buttons and lenses.
Ah okay. Weird how the escape light looks completely black on the packaging though (what’s with it & the test button normally being yellow as well: did Jameson just want something original from other manufacturers?).
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It seems to have been jamesons choice of color as a lot of there box’s had yellow features.