That must pretty damn loud for a library…
There’s a college not far from here that has (or had) old adaptahorns in most buildings, including the library. :shock:
Damn I can imagine: Studies book “BWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAA” what a shock that would be.
The library building at Bridgewater State University used to have Standard 450 horns (most of them flush-mounted.) Now they have a Simplex 4100U system with TrueAlert horn/strobes that outnumber the amount of Standard horns there used to be!
An abandoned school that was built in 1927 is near my grandmas house. It has a Faraday system installed around 1978 has Those Faraday pulls from the 70s and Wheelock 34-24s. It also has an MT.
I’m not sure of the model numbers. All I know is that they were T-Bars and that the high school I went to had only single pull stations rather than dual. It was my elementary school that had the combination which it doesn’t have anymore since they upgraded the system to “crap rebranded Notifier” as SimplexTech would say. I never paid attention to the pulls because they didn’t make deafening sounds that sound good at scare me at the same time.
It’s a very big library. 10 horns which are spaced a good distance apart.4 of which are in rooms themselves. My college also had 4051s in some small rooms before we got “crap rebranded Notifier”. I have never been in the library when they were testing it, but one of these days.
Probably why the segregated gyms at my middle school had only one horn in each.
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Not you, too!
Not to brag, but my school has a very cool system. (In my opinion XD) Here we go:
Old Building
Notification Appliances:
FCI HP Horns
Wheelock Exceeder
Wheelock MT4-115
Initiation Devices:
Edwards 270-SPO’s
Fire-Lite BG-10
FCI MS-2’s
System Sensor 2400’s
System Sensor 2400TH
Fenwal/FCI PSD-7139
Edward’s Heat Detectors (Chemtronics 500’s)
Panel:
Unknown FCI
Elementary School
Notification Appliances:
Wheelock Exceeder
Wheelock RSS
Wheelock MT-LSM’s
Wheelock MT-VFR
FCI HP Horns
Initiation Devices:
Edward’s 270-SPO’s
FCI MS-2’s
System Sensor i3-2WB’s
System Sensor 100 Series Smoke
Panel:
Unknown Silent Knight
“New” Building
Notification Appliances:
FCI HP Horns
Wheelock MT-VFR’s
Wheelock AS
Wheelock MT-MCW
Initiation Devices:
Fire-Lite BG-10
Edward’s 270-SPO
Couch Chevron Pull’s
System Sensor 2400’s
FCI Heat Detector
Panel:
FCI SBP-4
Church
Notification Appliances:
System Sensor MASS-24 (Non-ADA)
Initiation Devices:
Fire-Lite BG-10’s
System Sensor 1400’s
Panel:
Unknown Silent Knight
Toebben House
Notification Appliances:
System Sensor SpectrAlert Advance P2R’s
System Sensor P2RK
Initiation Devices:
Fire-Lite BG-12L’s
System Sensor i3-2WB’s
System Sensor 5600 Heat Detectors
Panel:
Fire-Lite MS-5UD
And that’s it. Thanks for taking a look! (I’ll post more places soon)
Not me too that my childhood was destroyed or not me too that I hate Notifier?
OK, this is long and i’m only saying this once
My Preschool:
- Simplex 2901-9331 bells on 4903-9101 Strobe plates. Were very cool and were my first alarms ever heard
- Simplex 2901-9806 on 2903 light-strobe plates. I saw these in the gym when we got pictures
Panel- Simplex 2001
Simplex 2099 single action T-bars
4251-20s
Simplex Whiffle Balls
Signal coding-90bpm March time
My Elementary School:
Main Building
Simplex truealerts in every hallway and classrooms. Were very loud and gave me nightmares.
Wheelock Weatherproof MTs in courtyard. Set to continous, very loud when eating lunch outside.
Truealert strobes in bathrooms. Always scared of them, thought they were horns
Truealarm Detectors. Never alarmed once
Panel- Simplex 4010, code 3
Old Mobiles
System Sensor P241575s. VERY LOUD, 2 per classroom
Simplex 4251-20s.
Simplex 2098 Detectors.
New Mobiles
Gentex Commander 3s. set to continous tone, not very loud
System Sensor i3s.
NBG12LXs.
I loved this system and set it off in 5th grade on the last day of school for a fire drill. I will post the rest in another post.
Not you too that you hate Notifier. Why?
Middle School. I will start by saying this system while cool, is almost dead, due to false alarms, panel malfuncions, vandalism, and age.
Pull Stations.
Notifier LNG1-Rs. main pull station, some are vandalized though 
Notifier BG10. Replaced a LNG1-R in the cafe after its press button was yanked off.
Notifier NBG12-LXs. one was added id a coverage gap, other replaced an LNG1-R that was torn off the wall. Also in mobiles.
NAs
Gentex Commander 1 Horn-Strobes. in all areas of the building except music area. some have the horn broken or have been written on
Gentex Commander 3 Horn Strobes. in the music hall, orchestra room, art room, mobiles and where commander 1s have been torn off the wall.
Gentex commander 4 Horn Strobes. in 6th grade bathrooms, chorus room, band room, and boys locker rooms, and clinic.
Gentex SHG Horn Strobe. located in the ‘‘special’’ room.
System Sensor P2R. in bathroom where the arson happened, repaced a commander 1.
Detectors.
System Sensor 1400s. very faulty, have them everywhere.
Notifier Smokes. in mobiles and where a 1400 got pulled off the ceiling.
Unknown Smokes. in the 8th grade stairwell and in science storage rooms.
Panel is an addressable Notifier panel set to code 3.
Lastly, Work.
There is a First Alert SA76RC in the break room as well as a potter bell connected to the sprinklers.
Compared to Simplex, Notifier stuff is usually made somewhat cheaper. I don’t hate it as much as I used to. Maybe because of how a few of the schools in my area and my college got new Notifier systems recently. Besides, even cheaper than Notifier would have to be Fire-Lite! (I’m reminded of the MS-9600UDLS panel where I work that would often get a trouble condition and make that annoying beeping!) Siemens has really gotten cheap nowadays too…
Now I want a SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobe and BG-12 pull station for my alarm collection from all this stuff 
All of these companies got cheaper over time. The 2099 and 4099 are inferior to the 4251-20.
The Notifier panels all look and feel nice, not cheap. A lot of Simplex’s panels have crappy membrane keys which are even worse than the chiclet-style keys that Fire-Lite, Notifier, and Gamewell-FCI use. The 4010ES and the 4100ES use chiclet keys too, so I guess that’s a step in the right direction. Both the BG-12 and the 4099 are made of the same Lexan plastic, which feels cheaper than the thicker plastic used to make the 4251-20. I think the BG-12 is built much better than the BG-10, which was just disgustingly lazy in my opinion.
Today, Came back to work (after having my wisdom teeth removed), and noticed some things different with the FA system. They finally replaced the last 2 pulls from the original system (Mirtone 73303s) with 2 new Mircom MS-400(U)s. I’m pretty glad they got rid of them (kinda bummed I couldn’t salvage them), because they were both hard to reset, and the one in the main lobby was pretty loose, from it being pulled over the years. They also replaced a few of the heat detectors in the kitchen with brand new Simplex Thermoflex heat detectors, and some of the emergency lighting that was hanging off their wires. As well, they replaced the key to the Mircom FA-1025T (the old one had got jammed in the keylock).
All that remains from the original Mirtone 7200 System (or I think it was a 7400), is the 3 Mirtone fire bells. The only thing they still did not fix is the bell in our staff room which is hanging off the wall.
At the middle school, it’s comprised of all EST Integrity’s, some Simplex SpecrAlert’s, some Simplex SpecrAlert Advanced- all in Code 3, except the sequnce of the alarms is off. some are faster, some are slower. I wished they had eVac hooked up to the system, becuse the newer sections have speaker/stobes. and they do Code 3 Whoop.
How exactly does that work?
Pat, Simplex makes these
System Sensor makes these
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Simplex possibly has the ugliest NA’s.
What…Why?? :?