Good finds there!
According to Google, that is a GE 19208 wireless door chime.
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Oh wow, heck of a find right there! Reminds me a lot of the “wiffle-ball” smoke detectors Hochiki made back in the day. It’d be really nice if it could be saved, especially given it’s the only one supposedly known to exist.
Any idea where & how its supposed make & model was found?
I asked on the forums discord server some one gave me a model that didn’t come back to anything.
Oh? Alright. Wonder how they in turn found that out though, especially with how rare that model is.
You know, that may very well be what it is, good find! (perhaps Universal Fire Components rebranded & sold it in North America as the SM0-DTR, since Nittan is a Japanese manufacturer who’s products as far as I know have almost never been sold in NA)
Found two of these rare Westinghouse-rebranded ESLs while online homesearching, and these weren’t already found since these were in Georgia.
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Oh wow, great find! Had no idea Westinghouse of all companies rebranded those!
I had no idea either until I saw this livestream quite a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/Snwd_VsdB70?t=2082
Also I can tell these are Westinghouse branded because of that sticker at the top of it that has the “W” logo. It’s similar to how FireX designed their FPAD except the FPAD is not a rebrand, the green sticker on the FPAD just determines that they are photoelectric.
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Oh I also almost forgot to mention that they found a load of AS-6000-SL glassbreak detectors alongside those Westinghouse detectors.
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Is the Dicon model 300 at all rare? I have one laying around
Oh? Neat.
More of those huh? Interesting…
Last I checked just about any Dicon model is rare (though just the same some probably more than others) considering they haven’t been around since at least the late 2000s.
That image came from an NFPA ad in the 1980’s, so it seems Nittan did sell in the US at some point, although probably not for very long.
Not really: just twist it back onto the base & it’s good to go (though even while hanging there it should still be able to do its job, as long as the wires stay attached of course (as old as that detector is thus meaning it should be replaced).
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There was another camera angle that showed the base was cracked
Here is a cool rarity I got today. A Sunbeam Centurion 45-31 from around 1978. These are Cerberus Pyrotronics GuardION FB-1 rebrands with an added test button. There is also a version of this without the test button, known as the 45-21. This thing is broken in the stupidest and weirdest way, I can only get it to sound when I put the battery in the wrong way to make it false. Still a really cool and rare unit though!
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Oh? Alright, still might mean it can be put back up though.
Nice acquisition! Very odd behavior though (maybe try holding the test button down for longer (which I’ve had to do with at least one of my units) or use canned smoke?).