Name That Fire Alarm!

NewAgeServer · October 12, 2009, 12:55am

It’s called a Faraday 61xx Series horn. It was sold as the “naked” horn, and you had to order either a horn cover, a horn/strobe cover or a horn/light cover, or you could just put the horn as is on a retrofit plate, like you see here.The exact type of bare horn could also be found inside the Simplex electromechanical 4903 horn/strobes (4903-92xx and 4903-94xx series) and inside the Gentex GMS and the Siemens U-HNH and U-NH, the Simplex 2901-9838, 2901-9840 and 2901-9846 and all similar horns.

If anybody wants to see, I can scan the owner’s manual that came with my Faraday 6120 (which was NIB)

tpirman1982 · October 12, 2009, 11:02pm

From Quincy, MA, name this Wheelock fire alarm.

system · October 12, 2009, 11:05pm

Wheelock EH series horn strobe.

wiley209 · October 12, 2009, 11:21pm

Actually that’s a Wheelock MT-24-WM.

system · October 12, 2009, 11:35pm

Oh, your right, I guess I didn’t look at the edges close enough.

tpirman1982 · October 25, 2009, 12:56am

From in the men’s room at the Knights of Columbus in Quincy, MA, name this remote fire alarm!

wiley209 · October 25, 2009, 1:58am

Looks like a SpectrAlert Advance remote strobe.

tpirman1982 · November 8, 2009, 10:28pm

From Copley Square Mall in Boston, Massachusetts, name these fire alarms!

TrueAlert_Speaker_St · November 8, 2009, 10:45pm

Some of these are actually from the Prudential Center Mall, others from Copley Place.

Federal SelecTone behind an SAE A34 light plate, from Copley Place.

Simplex TrueAlert speaker/strobe, found at the entrance of 101 Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay Arcade of the Prudential Center Mall.

Simplex LifeAlarm speaker on a 9501 strobe plate somewhere at the Prudential Center, probably Back Bay Arcade. This one is installed incorrectly.

Gentex GSX strobe next to a Simplex LifeAlarm. These are found on the ceiling at the Prudential Arcade section right opposite the entrance to the tower.

Gentex GSX strobe next to a Simplex “megaphone” speaker. This can be found in the Belvedere Arcade of the Pru. Also, one of the Gentex strobes has a LifeAlarm next to it.

Simplex LifeAlarm speaker on a 9501 strobe plate at the Prudential Center mall. Most of the alarms in the mall are installed like this. I believe this particular alarm is located by the elevator, as I remember the wall being marble.

Ceiling mount Simplex TureAlert speaker/strobe. Copley place is slowly replacing their SAE alarms with Simplex alarms.

tpirman1982 · November 8, 2009, 11:26pm

Golly. That’s a lot of Simplex speakers, TrueAlert.

TrueAlert_Speaker_St · November 8, 2009, 11:36pm

Yeah. The mall is full of them. It has a huge voice evac system, that I have described on this board many times. Most of the alarms are as follows:
Simplex LifeAlarm/9501s (found in the original areas)
Gentex GSXs next to LifeAlarms (found in a couple wings)
Simplex 4903 speaker/strobes (found in a wing added in 2002)
Simplex TrueAlert speaker/strobes (found in most stores and in a wing added last year)

Due to the fact that the mall kept getting added on to and some stores are no longer there, there is a huge variety.

tpirman1982 · November 9, 2009, 9:24pm

From Route 128 Amtrak/Commuter Rail train station at University Avenue in Westwood, Massachusetts, name that fire alarm!

wiley209 · November 9, 2009, 9:52pm

Looks like the horn you’d find on SAE VA4 horn/strobes on an SAE AV32 strobe plate! RARE!

tpirman1982 · November 9, 2009, 10:16pm

I didn’t think that was rare.

system · November 10, 2009, 2:43am

I’ve never seen that type of horn behind an AV32 plate before.

tpirman1982 · November 10, 2009, 3:24am

When I saw this fire alarm after I got off the train this morning, it reminded me of the Space Age VA4 horn at Stop N’ Shop here in Brockton.

tpirman1982 · November 22, 2009, 12:58am

From Starbucks on Hancock Street in Quincy, MA

From the Super 6 Motel on Union Street, in Braintree, MA.

Name those two fire alarms!

Destin · November 22, 2009, 2:17am

That’s an Amseco SFH45 speaker/strobe.

Wow, I’ve never seen one of those with a strobe before. It’s a Faraday horn, but I can’t remember the exact model number. Simplex rebranded it as the 2901-9833.

wiley209 · November 22, 2009, 2:42am

It appears to be a Faraday 6020 horn/strobe. Incidentally, speaking of Simplex, that motel presumably used to have an ESL or Adaemco system or whatever (with those horn/strobes and Edwards 270-SPOs), but now the panel is a Simplex 4006, and there’s a Wheelock AS near it (obviously was installed when the Simplex panel was put in.) Pretty weird Simplex system, IMO!

NewAgeServer · November 23, 2009, 12:42am

I have seen those before, but I never got a picture, sorry. I’ll remember to bring my camera next time I go to the place with those signals that I saw.