Not sure if it was made before the Stopper II, but STI refers to these just as the “Stopper”, leading me to believe it’s the Stopper I.
I am assuming it’s the Stopper I because it doesn’t have a buzzer.
You can get stopper 2’s without a buzzer. I have no idea what the difference is supposed to be.
This little disclaimer is in all of the datasheets:
So they acknowledge the possibility of fire alarms not being properly activated because of these.
I can say the same thing, with my elementary and high school we had 0 false alarms, and none of my schools have stoppers over the pulls.
Only my elementary and high schools have had Stopper’s over the pulls, and high school has been the only place where I’ve experienced false alarms (two people on two separate occasions thought it would be a great idea to pull the alarm while it was snowing outside last year).
This is the anti-Stopper - just leave the keys in the pull station! This is a live system, but at least by design you can’t set off the alarm by simply opening this pull station.
Damn, they got enough stuff on the wall…jeez. That seems too crowded for a pull station to be there.
Last year my PE teacher freaked out and started to evac the gym when someone knocked the cover off. Since then, the fire marshall made the district remove the batteries from the sounder, for the same reason of someone possibly thinking the alarm was active, but it really wasn’t
I can say with certainty, that although ever pull station in my school is protected with a Stopper II, that didn’t stop the 54 false alarm from that school year, the record being 7 alarms in 5 days. They eventually arrested the kid, after he started moving towards arson.
In high school after art class, some kid was putting on his backpack outside of the classroom and accidentally bumped into the Stopper cover lifting it and setting off the local alarm. The next day the whole class got in trouble because “someone set off the fire alarm” and the teacher didn’t know who it was. One of my classmates tried to explain to the teacher that the kid only sounded the alarm to the cover, but the teacher still insisted that the fire alarm was set off. That classmate even had to stand outside the classroom for some minutes, getting in trouble for trying to tell the teacher the truth.
Yep sounds about right. Today in education if you try to correct the teacher or tell the truth it’s considered disrespect :roll:
What has changed in education where my dad could tell the teacher the truth even if it’s far fetched and not even get a slap on the wrist?
The middle school campus was built in 2001 so it’s newer and they obviously have stoppers. The elementary campus was built way back and don’t have stoppers. I wish they did because one kindergartener decided to yank on the t bar and set off the alarm