Just saying: just like with them aging all are not guaranteed to be damaged from that, it’s just not a good idea in general to paint them just in case doing so might damage them.
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I have another one that’s in the school as well (it’s the only one and it’s in the cafeteria:
There are also other alarms that I forgot about so I’ll have to get pictures of them and put them here…
What? Not only are there surely more notification appliances than just that S-HP-MCS & the 7002T, but how (or rather why) does one system have both voice evac & non-voice evac signals at the same time?
The school I go to is weird because there’s a lot of OG school and some new additions that have different alarms. Now we’re getting MORE additions with different alarms:
if the pic goes through:
If not it’s called a System Sensor p2wl
Yeah, it went through, though because 2-wire & 4-wire L-series devices look identical from the outside there’s no real way of knowing whether it’s a P2WL or a P4WL. Another kind of notification appliance though? (when that school already has two other different ones as you’ve shown so far)
Yeah I don’t know why there’s what seems like 50 different alarms (I don’t even know what the panel would look like) and here’s ANOTHER ONE (UGHHH):
This one and others that are the same is on the ceiling in the elementary wing
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What’s the model of that ceiling mount? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that one before
What model is it? I have never seen it.
Jeez…
That’s one of the appliances from Siemens’ new ACEND-series: honestly surprised to see one in an actual building so soon after their introduction (in a building that also has far older devices too no less).
I might have to talk to the people in charge of installing the fire alarms because it’s just waaaayyyy too random. I find it ridiculous but they alert the school all around so whatever works for them, I guess…
My school also has a weird fire alarm system with several different alarms within the same building. So I’m unsure on why some schools mix appliances like that
Yeah: would definitely be nice if everything was consistent but as long as it works I guess.
Probably comes from replacements done over the years as older devices fail.
I might have a way to tell us more about what the panel might be. Can you post pictures of some detectors and pull stations? Also, the alarm that you showed in this post and the one in this link are both speaker/strobes that play an evacuation message. Can you describe what that sounds like?
And fire phones too it looks like. Is the smoke detector head on top of the panel a spare?
It’s a spare yeah. There’s like 7 spares.
We do have fire phones.
New auditorium added! And another false alarm…
My school’s auditorium area is finally getting finished! That area has the same Siemens XMS-S pull stations and OP921 smoke detectors as the rest of the building. Interestingly, they actually still installed SL series (rebranded Wheelock LED3) speaker/strobes. I guess the installation company must still have some in stock, or they were saved for this project.
We also had a false alarm today that was likely related to them working on the part of the system in the auditorium. Around 10 minutes before the end of my lunch, the alarm went off. Surprisingly (but also a good thing), everyone started evacuating. Before we got to the door to go outside we heard an announcement to disregard from the PA system. The alarm was silenced and reset around 30 seconds later. Despite us being told to disregard, the fire department was not told and they still responded. Ironically, they have told us a few times in the past weeks to disregard the alarm if it goes off, but it never has. Of course, it did go off when they didn’t tell anyone before hand.
My school has a Gent fire alarm system, which recently got new sounders and smoke detectors (S-QUAD). I don’t know when they’re tested.
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The Student Union at my community college (where I currently work part-time at for the TV studio) got a new fire alarm panel as part of remodeling the campus police headquarters! Their Notifier AFP-200 panel installed in the late 1990s has been superseded by an NFS2-3030 panel (two-bay with red cabinet and NCA-2 display).
More addressable devices are being installed in this renovated area (along with the first P2RLED horn/strobes on the campus), and they could also incorporate the ZAMs covering the remaining conventional devices (four zones) right into the new cabinet! (On the AFP-200, the ZAMs were installed right underneath the panel’s power supply within monitor modules). Amazingly, the gutted Standard Electric Time “Alarmatic” cabinet is still there for terminal wiring.
Now the only building left on the campus that’s not on their ONYX network yet is the Field House with its’ Fire-Lite MS-9600UDLS system.
I visited and photographed most of the simplex system at my elementary school!
Photographed:
2098-9603 Photoelectric Smoke detector head with a 2098-9529 built in heat detector base
2098-9102 Photoelectric Smoke Detector
2098-9202 Heat Detector
2098-9636 Ionization Smoke Detector head with a 2098-9529 built in heat detector base
4098-9601 TrueAlarm Smoke Detector
4251-20 With STI Stopper
4903-9101 Strobe Plate and 2901-9806 B4 Horn
Non-Photographed:
Panel: (originally a 2001 Repack, in place of it is a 4603-9101 Annunciator) Not sure what the main panel is.
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