A store I went to in Minnesota? had Simplex truealert horns on the ceilings with Simplex 4904-9137s on the walls. Ive also seen Simplex 4904-9101s above 2902-9713s in a parking garage.
I took this picture about a year ago at a family fun place.
There are spectra remote strobes, and some sort of (what looks like) Edwards horns.
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I have seen a Costco with simplex 4904 remote strobes, and the square truealert sounding remote horns
I’ve seen several instances of separate devices. Tysons Galleria has a mixture of 2901 simplex horns everywhere in the ceiling while 4904 remote strobes make up the walls and tower things. Target in Wheaton, MD has wheelock AH horns on the walls with rss remote strobes on the ceiling. quite interesting.
Sometimes it makes perfect sense.
Back before field selectable candela ratings, it was easier to use separate devices. The horn, bell, or chime, and either a 15cd,30cd,75cd, or 110cd strobe, which were 4 different models. Using combo devices, you just add to the different models on each job site which gets confusing for the installers. Now that you can change the candela rating on the fly, this is no longer an issue. It was just a logistics issue to reduce the amount of model #'s you needed.
In modern installations, the strobe layout is rigidly set in the code. Speakers on the other hand, can go just about anywhere and in order to meet new intelligibility requirements, they might be nowhere near the strobes. Because of this, the strobes and speakers are laid out separately a lot of times and little to no thought is given to combo devices.
My high school has seperate horns and strobes in areas from 1995 and before!
So I guess I should update this topic since it popped up again lol.
So the school I was talking about in question STILL has the Mircom system with separate strobes and horns. But now there is a EST panel also mounted in the vestibule, which makes me believe the system is being replaced. The school next to it (all built in the 90s) also had a similar setup, but it got a drastic renovation and addition, and now its an EST 3 system with Genesis Horn/Strobes all over.
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thats a remote speaker
My bad, I will fix it now
Seen this on an apartment on the east side of Pittsburgh as well.
Steel Plaza station on Pittsburgh’s subway also has closely mounted speakers with Wheelock RSS strobes (wall mount but installed on the ceiling).