Unfortunately, one of them was painted over . However, I am still undergoing an effort to get the 2 that are not painted over removed from the building and into my collection. I am working with the maintenance people and different people for this. I am hoping to get them removed before I graduate from high school, as I am currently in 12th grade.
Some more backstory about these alarms:
The school was built in 1975. Renovations were done to the building in December of 2013 and the majority of these were removed. Apparently the horns with plates were everywhere in the building before the system was replaced during the renovations. The 3 mentioned were reminiscence left behind from the old system, as well as a couple of vintage outdoor bells (unknown brand).
Since the school was built in 1975, I estimate the manufacturing date of these fire alarms are circa-1975.
I saw that device in your profile picture on another topic: wow, what a find! Quite neat indeed. Any idea if theyâre AC or DC?
The dual projector in that ad I believe Iâve seen before (forget who makes it out of the several companies that make dual projectors though), but Iâm not sure Iâve ever seen that single projector! Also, nice.
Awesome! Really hope that goes well.
The one might have been painted over, but itâs otherwise still intact & hopefully still works, right?
Matches up with that ad year-wise.
What a shameâŚ
Could be, yeah: that advertisement from the same year backs that up too (though they could have been in production before 1975 & were likely for several years afterward as well).
From an interview with a teacher that went to that high school as a student a long while ago, his name was Trey (heâs my bus driver), I asked him if the alarm sounded anything like a âgame score buzzer,â to which he replied, after thinking about it for a minute, âyes.â So, it may be AC. I have no idea if it has terminals (model has the âTâ moniker) or pigtails (no âTâ moniker) though, nor if itâs a rebrand (Iâve seen countless).
I also asked Trey if he knew what the pulls looked like, then I made an educated guess and asked him to search up âEllenco 5C.â He looked at the images that appeared in the results and he said âyep, that was it.â So my âeducated guessâ is supposedly correct, therefore the previous pulls were Ellenco 5Cs.
Funnily enough, the system was replaced with Wheelock alarms too. I own some from my school: a Siemens SE-MC-CW (E60-24MCC-FW), ZH-MC-R (ZNS-24MCW-FR), and a Faraday 8700-S (the pulls are actually HMS-S but mine so happened to be a Faraday 8700-S). The system is a Siemens Cerberus with a Faraday VPD (EVAX) voice panel. Speaking of, weâre supposed to have a fire drill today or tomorrow.
Hi, seen you commenting on this post from a mile away. Also, Iâm kinda a fanatic with the older alarms too. One day wanna get a Firecom 8500, which seems impossible but might be worth the try.
An update to this post: the maintenance mensâ boss did not give them the order to do so, therefore they have to wait from orders from their boss to get it removed.
EDIT 10/28/2024:
I have emailed that person.
EDIT 10/30/2024 | 6:05 PM EDT
The person has finally responded to me today at 8:30 AM EDT while I was at school and said that he would âlove for me to have [the] alarms,â but wants me to wait a little bit for the maintenance at my school to âget caught up on outstanding issuesâ before âgetting [them] taken down and covered⌠up.â In other words, he said yes.
. However, I am still undergoing an effort to get the 2 that are not painted over removed from the building and into my collection. I am working with the maintenance people and different people for this. I am hoping to get them removed before I graduate from high school, as I am currently in 12th grade.
Also, Iâm kinda a fanatic with the older alarms too. One day wanna get a Firecom 8500, which seems impossible but might be worth the try.