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?).
It’s also possible that it could’ve been a factory error with the battery leads, I’ve held the button down as hard as I could for like 15 seconds and it never made a sound
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Here’s a few rarities I’ve dug up from my storage:
First one is a Fare DAAF-08 smoke alarm, unfortunately this one appears to have a broken sounder, other than that it does indeed detects smoke even though it’s 17 years old, rest assured, it’s not in active service! (dunno
Pretty interestingly, if there is no battery installed, there is a plastic “peg” that pops out and keeps you from turning and locking the detector to its base, that peg actually being the light pipe for the LED, this is something I have NEVER seen on any smoke alarm.
Second one to come up is a duo of ATSE SO12, the ionization version of the SO2 detector I showed earlier in this thread… interestingly my SO12 is from 1992 and the SO12s from 1996, both detectors were also made by Fare and also rebadged by DEF (Détection Électronique Française) under the “Sirius-I” (ionization) and “Sirius-O “(optical/photoelectric) range.
ollowed by some now nearly extinct detectors from Nugelec, from their S97 range, the DTVS97 (yes I know it’s a heat detector but I felt like including it) and the DIFS97 (ionization), there is also a photoelectric varient (DOFS97), though I don’t have it.
While I don’t have a Nugelec DOFS97, I do have its OEM counterpart (I believe, it is, at least), that is the Tann Synchronome 7501. The base also is 99.99% identical although the Nugelec base has an additional shorting bar that the Tann base doesn’t have.
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I love to be able to learn more about both of these detectors
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They are 449Cs
Source: I own one lol
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Here’s a stupidly hard unit to find on eBay: An ESL 906-2 Smoke Alarm from 1978. It’s actually a little smaller than I expected, and it already looked small on camera. But anyway, this unit was introduced around the late 70s, there is also an ESL 906-1, which is the super rare and obscure line cord variant. Just like many other ESL units, it has the same loud low pitch buzz, I can’t remember what exact horn they used though. Unfortunately, I can’t test this because the harness wasn’t included and I don’t want to modify it, especially something this rare to get. I am currently the 2nd person to own one.
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I found a BRK 83P (83R but with a white button)
That’s quite awesome! I think I’ve found a couple of those while online homesearching a while back. I’ve never seen any on eBay before.
The second one is a Rittenhouse rebrand.
Funny how the button is the only part of it that’s not yellowed, heh.
Look at the way the door trim is cut to fit around the first one, heh.
How can you tell? It looks like any other 906-series unit to me.
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He could tell because there’s text on the cover of it, but it’s not printed though. I just noticed it as I read the comments lol
The same thing probably applies to the third one because that was in the same house
In @Jayden_Nielsen’s example, the text is in the corner.
On the Rittenhouse one, the text goes along the top.
Oh yeah, good eyes!
According to Google the following are the makes & models that detector could be:
Unknown ADT model
Alpha Communications/TekTone SF505ES
Inovonics FA202
GE NX-491
Sentrol (ESL) 562ST
No clue, but that’s a rather rare ESL 445C, the non-heat sensor version of the 445CT (the latter of which seems to be much more common for some reason).
Cool, so it’s similar to the numbering thing with the 449s.
Also I found… whatever this alarm is.
And also a Code One G.18
Mhm.
You know, I do believe that’s a super-rare Wellen Industries 2001 like the one in this topic!
Good find, though according to this Youtube video the G-18 looks different from that, so I’m not sure what model that could be (other than a rare one for sure).
Well how about that, heh…
That’s quite interesting. At first I thought it looked a bit like a knockoff GE 8201-series alarm but it’s better because it’s even rarer.
Found this weird ESL in my cousin’s basement
It’s smaller than the one that I have
Another angle
My hand for a size comparison
Doesn’t seem very well-mounted! Any idea what it’s hooked to?
That might be an ESL 521BXT (though if it’s not it’s likely part of their 500-series of detectors in general).