Rare Smoke Detectors

[Simplex4Life]

@7002t

@Simplex4Life

Very cool! My 202 has a different sensor and horn, and it has a quick-connect.

That LED lights up when it is the source of the alarm. I don’t know why there’s a separate LED for that. The LED’s on my BRK 1839ACI and FireX FX1020 go out when they’re the source.

I can’t tell what year mine is from by the date code, but my guess would be 1987 or 1988.

Very nice. My 201 also has a quick connect:

I assume it also does a 60hz buzz?

Speaking of which, as promised here’s a test video of mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LboflmvYQhQ

I thought the kind of quick-connect you have was called something different. I guess not. Mine plugs directly into the alarm.

Yes, it does do the 60-Hz buzz. I’ll try to make a vid of mine. I probably won’t be able to do that until Friday or the weekend.

@benson41011

Very interesting indeed. The horn in Federal3t22’s is the normal Kobishi AC squealer, but yours looks a bit different. Also, my 1839ACI’s LED goes out when testing, but oddly enough, my FX1020’s LED stays lit. Don’t know if it always did that, or something broke but it’s really strange how all the rest I’ve seen go out when tested.

I don’t know what kind of horn mine has. It is a different one though.

As for the LED’s, your FX1020 looks like it says it’s from 1983. Mine is from 1987. Maybe they didn’t yet have that feature in '83. It could be broken. I also got one of the BRK 769AC-I’s, and the LED’s on those don’t turn off either. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have date on it, but I’d say early-'80s. I couldn’t imagine not being able to see which alarm was triggering the others, and having to go around and disconnect or clean each alarm. Of course, if there was cooking smoke or a real fire, it would be fairly easy to tell. If an alarm was dirty or had a bug in it though, trying to track down the originating alarm would be awfully inconvenient.