Look at the label picture. Never seen a big-12 with this exact label. Is this rare, common, or just hard to find?? I’m just wondering about the label because I have never seen any label for one of these like this. This is mine in my house and in my collection . (Flush mounted!)
I believe any BG-12 that has “PDI” (which stands for “Pittway Distribution, Inc.”, a division of Pittway Corporation who owned Fire-Lite, Notifier, & Silent Knight at the time (all of whom have sold the BG-12 under their names) on its label was made before Honeywell’s 2000 acquisition of the Pittway Corporation: if it says just “Fire-Lite” or just “Notifier/Notifier Fire Systems” on the front that may also be a pre-Honeywell version as well, but I believe unless it specifically says “PDI” on the inside it’s not a pre-Honeywell version.
As TC116 said, this is a Pittway-era BG-12, characterised by this exact labeling inside and the lack of the “by Honeywell” byline. These were indeed the original BG-12 because they were first released during the Pittway-era.
PDI BG-12 are fairly common but not too common due to there being a larger amount of Honeywell/Modern BG-12 in existence. Does this have a date code?
the bg-12 is still current nothing special except calling that an first gen which it is not addressable but convention which it is understanding.
Thanks though. I didn’t think it was rare and I know about the PDI version but I have never seen a PDI version with this label.