UPDATE - Looks Spruce Creek Elementary will be getting a new Notifier NFS-320 fire alarm system this summer! Building 13 has an NFS-320 system in it, tied into the current panel (which if I’m not mistaken is probably a late 1980s Autocall panel, or an NFS-3030, replacing a Faraday panel original to the school).
Existing pulls are a mix of FCI MS-2s and at least one or more BG-12s. Not sure about smokes/heats, probably older Pyrotector/Faraday and Autocall models.
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[*]Inside signals were older Faraday 5640 horns on older light plates, like what JTD321 has, only flipped upside down
[*]Outside signals were what appeared to be (Faraday rebranded???) Simplex 2901-9806 horns, some on 2903 light plates
[*]Some 5640 horns were removed and replaced with Wheelock MT series,, Gentex Commander 2, one Gentex GOS , and one Wheelock AS (set to code-3) horn/strobes on the existing light plates (which were disconnected, of course)
[*]There is one 2903+2901-9806 in a restroom over in building 9
[*]There are a couple of Wheelock MT-WMs and one Gentex GOS outside (some on 2903 light plates)
[*]Building 12 has Federal Signal 450D+VALS horn/strobes, and Federal Signal VALS strobes in the restrooms. If I remember correctly, each classroom here had a 450D+VALS and an MS-2
[*]The portables have Gentex Commander 2 horn/strobes, and an ESL heat sensor in each
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Building 13 on the other hand has your typically Volusia County Schools Notifier setup with Commander 3 Horn/strobes, horns, and strobes, with BG-12LXs and FSP smokes. And if you're wondering, the whole system did continuous when I was there.
You think you can get one of the old light plates or a picture of that light plate? Just for reference, NOBODY has any clue what the hell it is, so I named it a 5415.
my school has the new l series speaker strobes set into max volume and set to 180 candela
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180 candela? I doubt that they put those in your school (besides maybe the gym if they were ceiling mount), but they could have been on a high setting. Full volume speakers seem rough and from what i can read on the sheet… LOUD
Well, they’re almost done with construction on Phase 1 of the cafeteria renovation at my college’s Student Union. Phase 1 involved demolition of an existing enclosed conference room and redoing part of the seated area in favor of a new Enrollment Office. They removed the Faraday 6020 horn and Simplex 2903-9001 light plate and the Faraday F1GT pull and ADA-extender adapter (they are now in my fire alarm collection!) and installed System Sensor P2RL horn/strobes. I knew it was only a matter of time before the L-series showed up at my college, given how we mostly use Notifier there nowadays (and a bit of Fire-Lite as well). They also installed Notifier FSP-851 smoke detectors (on the newer conical base) and NBG-12LX pulls that blink red, as they left the existing Notifier AFP-200 panel setup as-is. Phase 2 is supposed to start near the end of this May, and will have more L-series horn/strobes installed in the rest of the cafeteria, along with presumably more new pull stations and smoke detectors.
I was pretty surprised when I got my hands on that Simplex 2903 alarm (which replaced a Standard horn/light some time in the 80s) that the horn was a Faraday-branded 6020. I figured it was branded as a Simplex 2901-9833 due to being used with a Simplex 2903-9001 light plate; plus there used to be a 2901-9833 horn in the Fine Arts building on a 4050-80 light plate.
There was a mixed up system on YouTube at one point (though the channel seems to have been deleted) that had a bunch of Faraday horns but on Simplex plates so there is a precedence for it.
voice evac says
ladies and gentlemen
may i have your attention please
there has been a fire emergency reported in the building
please wait until further instruction until the verification of the fire
if there is an evidence of a fire in the building please leave the building
use the nearest exit in an orderly manner
move 300 feet away from the building
do not use the elevators
use stairwells only while necessary
do not re enter the building until the all clear has been given
please walk quickly do not run
if you cannot leave due to medical conditions please dial 911
The College of Coastal Georgia (Brunswick campus), where I currently work and go to school at, has different systems throughout the different buildings on campus. Most of the systems are Notifier systems with different SpectrAlert Advance NAs. The larger buildings have SpectrAlert Advance SPSR speaker/strobes, while the smaller buildings have SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes. The Hargett Building and the Library have ceiling-mount Advance horn/strobes, and there are even a few L-Series alarms (both wall and ceiling mount) in the new parts of the Library. The conference center/auditorium building has Wheelock EHS-DL1 horn strobes and WST-24 strobes. There is an Advance horn/strobe in one of the restrooms there. All pull stations are Notifier NBG-12LXs with Notifier FSP-851 smoke detectors. I’m unsure of the exact model number of the voice evac panels, but they are Notifier. I haven’t seen a panel in any building with Advance horn/strobes.
The Lakeside Village student dorm building uses an EST system rather than a Notifier system. The main NAs are white EST Genesis horn/strobes with FIRE lettering and no trim plate, and Genesis remote horns in the rooms. There’s also an EST Integrity horn/strobe outside. The pulls are EST 270-SPOs with EST SIGA smoke detectors. The panel is an EST IO500, and is located in a sprinkler riser room. I got to reset it while the system was being tested. All alarms do Code 3.
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I’m unsure of the exact model number of the voice evac panels, but they are Notifier.
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I didn’t see a model number anywhere on the panel, so that’s why I was unsure about the model #. I have heard the system go off once, and it does a slow whoop 5 times before playing the following message: “Attention. Attention. There has been an emergency reported in the building. Proceed immediately in an orderly manner. Do not run to the nearest exit and leave the building.”
Here’s the panel from that system, located in an electrical room.
I recently started a new job in a high-rise office building that features a brand-new Simplex 4100ES system (replacing what appears to have been an EST system). The pull stations are two-stage T-bars with bilingual lettering (most of which display the new Simplex logo) mounted near Simplex firefighters’ telephones, while the smoke detectors are TrueAlarms. The signals are a mix of ceiling-mount TrueAlert speaker/strobes, ceiling-mount remote speakers, and wall-mount speaker/strobes. Judging by the red LEDs on the ceiling-mount speaker/strobes, the strobes on these signals are addressable.
Oddly enough, in certain areas, I spotted ceiling-mount Genesis remote strobes mounted near TrueAlert speaker/strobes. I suspect that these devices are remnants from the previous system that have yet to be removed.
Today, I heard this system sounding during a false alarm. I only heard the first stage signal (60 BPM chime) as the alarm had been initiated a few floors below mine. After about one minute, an automatic bilingual message was broadcast, indicating that the fire alarm had been activated on the 18th floor and asking all occupants of the 17th, 18th and 19th floors to evacuate immediately without using the elevators. The signals were silenced about five minutes later and a live all-clear announcement was made.
After staying in a high-rise hotel, those kinds of systems have always interested me. What floor were you on?
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I was on the 26th floor during the alarm. I’ve been told that the second stage alarm automatically sounds on the floor where the alarm was initiated (along with the floors above and below) while the first stage signal is broadcast on all other floors.
I’m also quite interested in high-rise fire alarm systems! This was my first real-life experience with this type of setup.
I remember my elementary school had mechanical vibratone-style fire horns - I don’t know the exact specifications - but they were LOUD. The building was two stories, with around 20 classrooms, and there were only five horns in the entire building. Even then I was fascinated with them, and counted. There were two on the first floor (one on each end of the hallway), two on the second floor (one on each end of the hallway), and one in the gym. And no matter where you were in that building, if they went off, you heard it.
Where I currently work, we have Simplex Truealert devices, with multiple annunciators along each hallway and at least one in every room (including one in my office).
The elementary school on the same property as my middle school had these horns while my middle school had 4051 horns in continuous on march time “FIRE” flashers. They were replaced with I shouldn’t even need to tell you what.
When you say annunciator you mean alarm? And is it a horn/strobe or remote strobe in your office (if its a single unit).
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Horn and strobe…including right there in my office (and outside my office). Lots of devices in the building, which I’m sure is a code requirement. They also have many voice capacity.
