The.STR.4246 on Discord found an extremely rare and unheard of Space Age type alarm. I need help identifying this alarm.
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Oh wow…wonder if it might happen to be the predecessor to the AV32 & AV34 given its design (especially the lens which seems to be of the exact same design as the AV32 & AV34’s). Something else to note is the fire sticker on the lens, which according to NewAgeServerAlarm’s “What are the pictures in my intro?” video can sometimes be found on AV32s as well (I honestly thought he might have been just misremembering said sticker as I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an AV32 that had such). I don’t really have any clue as to what that device is, but it’s a heck of a find, & let’s hope that it & any others that might be in that building are properly saved someday as it/they should be. That horn probably isn’t original to the plate & system though given it’s a Wheelock 34T (unless it happens to be an SAE-rebranded one, even though I don’t believe I’ve ever known SAE to rebrand Wheelock horns). Also unusual that the plate is mounted the opposite way to the AV32 & AV34 (unless that was a mistake on the part of the installer).
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Yes this is definitely unheard of. I have a gut feeling that it is part of the AV- family of devicicals.
Okay an update, this is apparently a super rare prototype. Someone owns the metal plate to it, not the fully intact one though. The model is still unknown but it was apparently released before the AV- series came out.
Holy crap. by the way, that’s probably Mr4246–2 on YouTube who found this probably somewhere in Michigan. try to see if @SpockKirk-1701 (Glenn of OSFA) could identify this
Good Idea, he’ll be here since you summoned him.
actually Azln found this device and another. its on a pyrotronics system 3. i believe its a early pyrotronics av32 but i could be wrong
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Yeah, it’s likely a predecessor to the AV32, especially given the identical lens design (though the A-series & AV-series were both made by Space Age Electronics, not Pyrotronics).
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So there’s a bottom lens version as well… Very interesting.
Pretty sure they’re both the same device, just mounted lens-hole-up or lens-hole-down.
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Makes sense given that 2903s and 4903s can be done the same way.
so it might not be pyrotronics (but pyrotronics did rebadge the av32). but i don’t believe this is a SAE product
I have no idea why you would think that given it’s very similar in design to the later AV32, & the lens has “SPACE AGE” molded into it as well (provided that’s the original lens of course).
well the thing is. sae never did fire lettering on the lens like ever. and the second thing is that sae didn’t make the lenses signal stat did. the model is 9009 and yes they have SAE molded onto the lens
no, i don’t believe sae made that style of av32. its most likely a custom job done by a local company
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Still might be an early SAE light plate anyway though (that’s what I’m sticking with for now at least given its resemblance to the AV32).
Wait really? I didn’t know SAE didn’t make the lenses themselves (don’t know why they couldn’t have though considering they clearly had the ability to mold the plates).
Those are simple stickers that could be easily applied to any device’s lens, & just because they haven’t been known to do so so far doesn’t mean they never did (evidence supporting such includes the AV32 with fire lettering on its lens that NewAgeServerAlarm supposedly once found & the fact that with this unknown device that’s the only fire lettering on the device while on A-series & AV-series plates the fire lettering is on both sides of the lens instead: in the case of the latter there was no reason to put additional fire lettering on the lens since it’s next to the lens instead (as well as leaving the lens unobstructed).
Well, that particular one does (which may stand for “Society of Automotive Engineers” instead, who are the ones that assign ratings to vehicle lighting, since the original Ebay listing says it’s a trailer light cover), but all the ones on Space Age light/strobe plates & remote lights/strobes that I’ve seen say “SPACE AGE” in full instead (which is also the case with the two unknown plates in this topic).
Honestly why would that be the case if (provided it was in production at the time) there would have been the professionally-made & pre-assembled AV32 to use instead? (or heck any other number of light plates around then)
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idk. but i don’t believe its an early av32
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Okay…
From what I am seeing, I am getting two conflicting answers; one pointing towards it being a rare prototype, and another pointing towards it being a custom build? Am I trippin’? Did I really say that? And what were they thinking putting “SPACE AGE” on their lens that they’re putting in their boxes and selling? To be honest, I think shapes forgot how to shapes…
Well at the moment it’s not confirmed whether that’s a custom-built light plate or if it’s an actual albeit extremely rare Space Age Electronics light plate that may be the predecessor to the AV32, but I’m sticking with the latter for now.
If you mean that basically-identical Signal-Stat-branded lens, they might have been the original makers of the lenses for the unknown light plates in this topic as well as the A32, AV32, A34, AV34, & V33, in addition to Signal-Stat making them on their own for various applications.