There was a vertical strobe version of the 7001 known as the V7001, and this model did have rotated FIRE lettering. I have never heard of a V7002 though.
I remember that the device had the Wheelock 7002 strobe font and the grille was the normal Wheelock 7002 grille. I used to have a picture, but it was deleted while I was clearing the storage on my phone sadly.
I have the picture on my iPad! Here is the device:
If you look closely, you can see the Wheelock 7002 grille and the strobe font.
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I wonder if the device came like this or if the strobe was replaced at one point. For example, this upside down V7001-24 had a strobe taken from an 806+WS-24VDC.
That may have been possible! This photo was taken from a classroom when I went for an entrance exam prep course at the school, so I did not get up close to the alarm.
Ive seen 3 spectralert classics with red strobe at my school
It looks similar to a Firecom panel, specifically the 8500; are they really tryna copy the United Statesâ fire alarms?
This turned out not to be a fire alarm panel but a heating control panel that looked really similar to the 8500
Just found something probably extremely rare on eBay Kleinanzeigen.
This appears to be a German Simplex 4251-30. This just makes me wonder how many American style fire alarm were also made for Germany or maybe even other European countries.
The guy on eBay is not selling the pull station but searching for a CAT30 key since they are extremely hard to get here in Germany. But I will definitely try to ask him if he knows more about the pull station.
The devices themselves arenât that rare, but the mounting style seems to be the rare part from what people have told me so I thought this could count.
Man, talk about hella rare.
I never knew there were German versions of those! The only other foreign language ones are French for eastern Canada
This is amazingly cool! I never would have expected this variant to exist.
I wonder if Simplex also offered 4251s with Spanish lettering. Iâve seen eBay listings for NIB 4251s, and I noticed that the foam packaging had four boxes that could be checked: âENâ, âFRâ, âEN/FRâ and âSPâ. Iâm unsure whether âSPâ means âSpanishâ or something else, such as âSpecialâ. If it is indeed âSpanishâ, Iâd love to find a photo of one of those pull stations.
A friend of mine found this image in a collection of image scans out of old German job school books for electricians.
This image shows an older style breaker panel.
Whatâs more interesting to me is the thing that you see in the top left corner of the picture.
This looks definitely like a 2903.
Even more interesting is that it appears to say FEUER instead of FIRE (Feuer is the German word for fire).
This could maybe be a normal 2903 with a different label on the strobe. But from what I know there were only four labels avalable (FIRE, FEU, INCENDIO, HELP)
The only thing i ever read somewhere that apparently there was once a Simplex 2903-9001DE (DE for Deutsch perhaps?) and a 2902-9735DE (Which would probably be the speaker counterpart) but Iâm not sure if they really existed.
It would probably have âDEâ in the model number.
Yes, Google Translate really screwed this up and didnât even translate correctly. (I donât write perfect English and I also use Google Translate for my grammatical errors)
Try taking a Duolingo course. I took it here in the US to learn Spanish.
Yeah, I also used Duolingo for my English test while graduating from school a few years ago. It helped me a lot. So Iâm probably going to use it again since I myself also noticed that my English got worse over time.
Also thought of the 2903 and 2904 series for awhile and gathered the following information:
- The 2904s and 2903s were both produced at the same time
- The 2904s came with either a white lens with red lettering or red lens with white lettering, as well as some other colours like blue and amber.
- The 2903s came in red and could be custom-ordered to be factory-painted white
- There appears to be âundocumentedâ information about the 2903s, including different languages for lettering
And compiled the above information to form the following hypothetical statements:
- The 2903s based off the 2904 series can also come with a red lens with white lettering, possibly blue and amber as well.
- An extremely rare white factory-painted 2903 with red lens might exist
This information is completely hypothetical, but is based off actual relations between the 2903 and 2904 series and could be real.
There is a Publix in my area with a BG-12 rebranded by Tyco.