What are some system upgrades, replacements, or new systems that you have seen?
I remember my middle school getting a new system
My school district passed a bond measure so they could build a vestibule in the front. So they closed and gutted the old library ( which was next to the front doors ) they also gutted the office ( which housed the FACP ), the old system was ripped out, the old system included……. 1st gen wheelock as horn strobes and system sensor i3’s. The panel was an EST QuickStart in conventional mode.
The system was replaced with a Honeywell farynhyte voice system. I got to keep two devices from that upgrade.
My school had conventional TrueAlarms added at some point in time and some 4251-20s have been changed to 270-SPOs. The only other are additions in the new areas.
One of the churches in my area had what I believe was a Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL system. The system consisted of addressable smoke detectors, heat detectors, and pull stations. In the main chapel, there were s-hps-mcs-w speaker strobes and u-mcs-w remote strobes. Everywhere else in the building and the attached school, there were u-hn-mcs-w horn strobes and the same remote strobes. In the past couple of months, they upgraded to a new Autocall 4100es system with addressable smokes, heats, and pulls. The entire church building and the entire school building now have red conventional TrueAlert speaker strobes and remote strobes in place of the old speaker strobes, horn strobes, and remote strobes.
My local library used to have a Simplex 4002 with 2901-9838 horns on 4903-9105 strobe plates. Last year, they remodeled the entire library and added an addition. They replaced the system with a new addressable Siemens FA panel (I don’t know what kind). This is not surprising as Siemens is being used on almost all new systems in my area. The signals are rebranded wall mounted Wheelock led3 horn/strobes and remote strobes. There are also addressable Siemens smoke and heat detectors.