when was the church built?
My church is residing in a Crowne Plaza hotel. It was probably built sometime in the 1980’s.
The original notification appliances were FCI HP horns (re branded Federal Vibratone 450s) earlier this year most of them were replaced
with Spectralert Advances and Wheelock Exeeders.
Oh wow! That’s an odd mix of alarms and were the pull stations the same or did they change to.
No the pull stations were left untouched.
Though in the past a few of them were replaced with Edwards 270-SPOs and ESL RMS-1Ts
I’m sure some of you has seen this, but I thought I’d go ahead and post it here anyway.
I found these very rare alarms at a Macy’s in the Metro Center area during a DC run back in 2011 or 2012.
I’ve never seen those before. But I thought it was pretty awesome to see. 
I don’t think those are ADA compliant.
Nice i think thats a hazerd to leave the keys in the panel but i have never seen those alarms before
If that’s a horn, I’m curious to know what it sounds like.
Its an Altlas speaker.
No, those look a bit different
It is an Atlas speaker.
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I just remembered these: Atlas Sound SAV-3-60 speaker/strobes.
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I had thought I’d lost the pic of these on an old HDD, but discovered that I had uploaded the image.
If you rotate the image…
…they look like CLEAR ripoffs of SAE strobe plates.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
I think Simplex 4050-80 (and similar) light plates are becoming very rare, actually. When they aren’t being replaced with a Notifier or Siemens system or whatever, Simplex often replaces them in older systems they still service (there’s a building at B.S.U. that had 4051+4050-85s, but the whole building is slowly upgrading to Simplex voice-evac.)
The RAREST version I’ve seen is probably this type with white “FIRE” lettering, from 1974-1975…
Also note how the horn is placed in the light plate. My “regular” 4050-80 has black “FIRE” lettering and the horn sticking out a bit like they usually do.
I think the ones in my elementary school were even rarer. They had no fire lettering, but the plate was red, not gray.
They were probably painted :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any that were red.
Is the wall that what it was on red to. 8)
I’m not an idiot. They had the same gloss and were on unpainted walls. The red was either the same as the horn or complemented the horn.