A few of the mixed pull stations (270-SPO,Fire-Lite BG-12,2 Simplex T-Bars from the 80’s) Have been replaced with Simplex T-bars from 2014
My elementary school had Wheelock 7002Ts, Notifier NBG-10 pull stations, and in the gym, four Edwards 270 series. All have been replaced with Cooper products, sadly. I only salvaged two 7002Ts and one Notifier. As much as I wanted the Edwards, they weren’t in the dumpster.
My middle school had Wheelock MT’s (I could be wrong), Wheelock LS1M-24-VFR strobes, and either Notifier NBG-12LX, or NBG-10 pull stations.
My high school has a mixture of Wheelock MT’s, AS’s, and one Gentex. The pull stations consist of Notifier NBG-10’s and MAYBE NBG-12LX.
I apologize for any inaccuracy. My interest in fire alarms has always been all over the place. I’ll take a closer look at the stuff in my high school in the fall.
System sensor i3 was installed today after a kid broke a System Sensor 2415? smoke detector.
Hey everyone. My high school has this setup inside each of the main buildings:
Its a Simplex 2901-9840 horn with a 4904-9101 remote strobe. I was wondering if this is a common setup? I know the 2901-9838 on a 4903-9101 plate is common, but what about the strobe only version and the flush mount horn?
What. The. Hell.
We need that mod!
North High School
Wheelock 7002T-24’s rebranded by Honeywell
System sensor Spectralert classic’s
System sensor MASS’s
Pulls are
Fire Lite BG - 8s
Honeywell SC464As
This is what I had to deal with from Kindergarten to 8th grade.
Interesting; so your school had a Gamewell system with Edwards Adapt-a-horns? Kind of an unusual choice. But seeing that old Gamewell Vitaguard pull station reminds me of my middle school; they had the same pulls, but the alarms were really old flush-mount Federal Signal horns (resembling their explosion-proof horns.) They sure were LOUD. The system is a Gamewell FlexAlarm from 1957 or 1958.
yeah the entire school was set up like that. It was built around 1955 or 1956.
Andrew has that horn!
I do not know why I didn’t find this forum sooner but this is going to be on all 4 schools as well as my older church and temporary church(in a school). Pictures coming soon.
My Elementary School:
Older System includes Edwards SIGA- 270SPO’s & 892-2B-001’s in Continuous(watch the thesdx video).
More Recent replacements include Wheelock NS’s also in Continuo
To the Intermediate School
Original parts have Simplex/Couch pull stations, Wheelock 7002T’s as well as one MT4 horn in a mechanical tone and two Spectralert Classics. There are also two grey flush mount Edwards 875’s(or whatever they’re called) on the ceiling of the first floor at the 5th/6th Grade Halls. One of the music rooms there is a Kidde B5. In the 4th Grade/New Wing), there are 2 System Sensor MASS12LO and a Wheelock MT4 in their own Slow Whoop tones. There is also one BG-8 & SIGA-270. Along with two MT4’s that cover expansions in the 5th/6th Grade Halls. The Cafetorium and Gym have Wheelock 34T’s behind protection plates. And the only outdoor alarm is a Weathered Edwards Integrity.
My Middle School has only EST SIGA-278’s as well as EST EG1’s which are all in code 3 along with EST 757-8A-T/Integrity’s on the outside. All are in code 3 except one that was somehow set to continuous.
My High School has Wheelock 46T-G10-24-WS-24’s in the original area. Federal Signal Vibratone 450D’s in the gym and locker rooms. Simplex 4901-9333 bell-strobes are in the athletic section of the building. One was replaced by a Spectralert Advanced by the door to the pool. There was also a Wheelock MB-G10-24 in the athletic section next to the weight room. But was replaced by an EG1. The entrance to the school along with art and music rooms as well as a recently added science wing use EG1’s too. Pull stations are Edwards 270-SPO’s the athletic section uses 2099-9754’s and any other zone would have an EST SIGA-278.
The school I go to now has an addressable system (which is some Silent Knight panel) and those silent knight pull stations that resemble a BG-8 but with an LED in the middle. They use wheelock AS’s throughout the school, but some parts ( like in the junior part of the high school) they have some Spectraalert Advanced, and in the freshman building they use mainly AS’s but some Spectra’s Classics. The smokes and heats are the usual silent knight addressable ones, but they use i3’s in the sunroofs. They have one annunciator in the main office, and the panel is located in the counselors office.
Given that it’s an older system, the chances of the 270’s being SIGA-270’sis slim. Still a cool system, reminds me exactly of my preschool.
(NOTE: no pull station or smoke detectors are shown in this post)
My K-9 (and soon to be K-12) school has the fire alarms on EST 1 and EST QuickStart Panels:
We have Edwards Integrity Power Saver Horn Strobes and Strobes in the K-4 Part:
In the 5-8 Part we have EST Genesis Unmarked Horn Strobes and Strobes:
In the 9th Grade we have these. (When 10-12 comes they will have the same alarms)
An EST Voice Evac Panel (unknown)
EST Speaker Strobes Ceiling and Wall
The White One ^^
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I can’t remember if I ever mentioned it, but my office has Mircom select-a-horn/strobes. No pulls, no smokes, building is fully sprinklered.
Got a few updates about the schools I went to.
Elementary School
- All three floors of the school only have one main corridor and these corridors had Simplex 4903-9219 electromechanical horn/strobes
- The cafeteria and kitchen (which was built in the 1980s), the foyer outside the cafeteria and the elevator room all have Simplex 2901-9838 electromechanical horn/strobes on Simplex 4903-9101 strobe plates
- Located in the ESL (English for Second Language) and the Speech Room (it was speech last year, not sure what it is now) have older Gentex SHG electronic horn/strobes
- The kindergarten gym (Again, not sure what it is this year) has a late model vertical Wheelock AS horn/strobe set to code-3 while the rest of the school horns where in continuous. This caused confusion since when it was an enrichment class along with an OT/PT room (I had OT/PT), during a (pulled) fire alarm, the teachers thought that the kid that pulled it pulled the T-Bar down and then put it back up again
- All bathrooms except for the two in the cafeteria had Simplex 4904-9138 remote strobes which freaked me out because I thought they were horns. The Teacher’s Lounge, which has a storage room and a boiler room in the back of it also had this strobe.
- Never saw the panel, or the smokes, but the pulls were Simplex 2099-9795 in the basement and first floor and Simplex 2099-9756 on the second floor.
- In 2013, they replaced EVERYTHING and got a Notifier system. BG-12s replacing the T-Bars and SpectrAlert Advanced Horn/Strobes in the school. That’s my childhood down the tubes.
Junior High School
- When the school was built in 1930, the system consisted of Edwards 270A-SPO pulls and Edwards 360-L horns. In the 1970s, the school upgraded, replacing the horns with Simplex 4051 horns on 4050-8X light plates that flashed with the black firing lettering on them. Some of them had red backboxes. I don’t know what model number it would be, but I do know that it was the 2 bulb variant. The only rooms to have these horns in them are the mechanical drawing room and the woodshop room. To my knowledge, the system still exists according to my cousin who goes there.
High School
- In most of the school, there are Simplex 2901-9838 fire alarms on Simplex 4903-9101 strobe plates which seem to have been everywhere the installs could shove them. Including in a tiny hallway where the counselor’s room is. These horns are loud so if you are in the small hallway, you are gonna have a heart attack when it goes off.
- The biotechnology wing, the machine shop wing and the aquaculture building have Simplex 4903-9219 horn/strobes.
- The modular building which was put in during the early 1990s, has Edwards 892-2B fire alarm horns. Why they went with Edwards instead of Simplex, I have no clue. I do know that the three horns in there were set on different pitches.
- These horns are no longer here, but the former assessment center (now a special education classroom which I think is way too big for that) and the cosmetology hallway had Space Age Electronics 2DCD horns on Space Age Electronics AV32 light plates that flash. Good lord, they were loud.
- The Lecture Hall has a Classic SpectrAlert. One of two code-3 horns.
- On the side of the aquaculture building, there is a Wheelock AS horn/strobe, which also does code-3.
- The pulls in the school and aquaculture building have Simplex 2099-9795s behind stoppers and Edwards 270A-SPOs in the modular building.
- All 2DCD+AV32s were replaced with Wheelock Exceeders
- The school briefly had the new panel it got set to code-3, but they changed it back when they realized the AS only made clicking noises.
- The mechanical and electrical room have Simplex TrueAlert remote strobes rather than horn/strobes. Why? I don’t know.
College
- The campus had a Simplex system with Simplex 2099-9795s and Simplex 4051 horns on 4050-8X that flashed set on continuous. Once again, two bulb version with no firing lettering.
- Second year there, they replaced it with a Notifier system with BG-12s replacing the T-Bars and SpectrAlert Advanced Speaker/Strobes in the building. Most are ceiling mount, some are wall mount, some are speaker only, one strobe only is outside the main entrance. I believe that they were gonna originally install Wheelock Exceeders as I saw a few getting put up, but they must have changed their minds for some reason.
Work - I work in a library
- Simplex system, Simplex 2099-9795s which may or may not have been break glass since none have the glass and Simplex 4051 horns on Simplex 4050-8X light plate. I do not know if it is one bulb or two, but most have no fire lettering. A couple have black fire lettering and one has the black fire lettering fading off. Do not know if they are gonna update the system, but I do know the small worker’s lounge area, which is about the size of my bedroom, has a 4051 in it. Not gonna hide in there when they test the system.
I seem to recall your high school and college’s Simplex T-bars were mostly 4251-20s, not 2099-9795s. That was an addressable MAPnet T-bar pull from the 1990s. But I think I also recall your high school having some -9756s as well. (The 4251-20 is the one with the old “SIMPLEX” logo on the bottom, mostly used from the 1970s to the early 1990s.)