Not everyday you see a Honeywell S46XA series Pull Station with a Watchman’s Key. In fact, it’s not everyday you see with a Pull Station with a Watchman’s Key in general.
Huge thanks to Pilot for this very rare (And very cool) device!
Does it actually say watchman? It looks like this is labeled as Presignal/general alarm which is more typical for them. I think the more interesting thing here is the type of keyswitch that was used. the ones I have all use arrowhart switches, this uses a barrel key
Watchman switches usually weren’t keylocks, fwiw, and not many companies did dual coded/multicoded systems other than autocall
It doesn’t say what the Key is for.
That’s not a watchmans key pull station, that’s an AC powered dual stage S464 pull, and it appears to have been made in '85. This pull was maybe intended to be used on a dual stage AC fire system. Do you have the tubular key which that operates the key switch?
it actually does indicate that it’s intended for presignal/general alarm setups:
in this type of setup:
keyswitch = general alarm
regular switch = pre-signal
so, while it’s not explicitly saying that the keyswitch is for general alarm, by calling out that the main switch is pre-signal, it generally would mean that the keyswitch is then for GA.
I don’t unfortunately.
By any chance is this still a Rare Pull Station?
Yes! That pull station is still very rare despite its lack of watchman’s switch
Oh Cool! Even I don’t have a Watchman’s Station at least I have something rare!
Yeah that pull is probably the rarest thing in your collection
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That pull station was definitely used as a watchman’s station. I personally removed it from service at plant that had security guards walk a tour of the buildings after hours and on weekends. Two other purposes of the key switch on these pull stations is for a presignal system or a positive alarm sequence when a facility may want to delay evacuation. I have a bunch of these stations and some other Honeywell ones with a different key switch. And MASS ADA, I can probably come up with a key for you.
Ohh. I wasn’t sure if it was a Watchman’s Station or not. It looked like one, but it also looked like a 2 Stage Key.
Thanks for making History with these Pull Stations! I don’t think anyone here besides you (And Honeywell themselves Lol) knew these existed.
Also what does the Key look like?
It’s a barrel type key like a Coke machine. That station was removed from the place I work at, so I know it was used for a watchman’s tour. I do have a key so I’ll set it aside for the next time we meet. I have some more stuff for you if you want. I don’t want to stress out you parents with a bunch of “junk”.
I have three versions of the Honeywell S464 with different style keyswitches. Two are definately factory, the other may have been field modified.
That’s interesting that they use different types of keys considering they are a similar model.