My school still has the 4903-9237’s, the 4010ES, the 4003EC, and the new speaker strobes!!
Interesting how here we have both a new member posting for the first time & an existing member posting again after a long absence, heh.
How it can have the former & the latter if one is voice & the other is not?
It’s a weird system. The original building, (built in 2000) has the 9237’s. The New Gym, (built in 2019), has voice evac. You see, Simplex is only used in 3 buildings in my city. My high school, (built in 2004), has truealerts. The many additions added on to my high school has simplex voice evac. My elementary school has 4903-9237’s and in the new addition, (built roughly late 2006, early 2007) has truealerts.
This is at my old middle school, building was built in 1993, with a Simplex 4100+ System, with wheelock ET80 speaker strobes, Very Unique! The panel was replaced 2 months ago, its now a Autocall 4100ES, With Autocall 4099 Pull stations, some orignal pull stations are there, and including a new academic building! It has autocall pull stations, Wheelock Eluxa Speaker Strobes, and a Weatherproof Wheelock Eluxa speaker strobe. The school gym building has Wheelock ET1010 Remote Speakers, with Wheelock RS Remote Strobes. Very cool right?
2 Likes
Yes definitely very cool to see that they both got away from having to deal with JCI, and the fact that, like I predicted, many Autocall installers are starting to use Eluxa devices, as the conventional Simplex/Autocall devices are getting very out of date.
I’m guessing that any fire alarm system in my school district from now on will probably be an Autocall or Siemens system, as the Autocall dealer in my area is my school district’s partner for security systems, and the Siemens dealer in my area is my school district’s partner for technology and automation systems.
1 Like
The academic building was the reason of the replacement.
Current job: Mircom horn-only devices (the whole building has a few different horn devices).
My school has an EST3 system with a large variety of alarms. The older main building has 2 floors with 2 different kinds of alarms. The alarms in the basement section are Simplex 4903’s in the hallway and 4906 strobes in the classrooms. The upstairs section has Wheelock MT’s in the hallway and 4906 strobes in the classrooms. The older gym and the theater have Gentex speaker strobes and the theater has 1 of the 3 annunciators in the system. The newer part of the school has EST Genesis horn strobes and speaker strobes. The smaller art building has System Sensor Spectralert classic horn strobes. And the Newer gym/Arena has EST Integrity Speaker strobes. The smokes and pulls are all EST SIGA series devices. I don’t know when it was installed, but that’s the system.
1 Like
Welcome to The Forums!
Wow, that’s definitely a huge mix of devices. Do the speaker/strobes all play a typical EST message? I’m guessing they will probably replace or upgrade the EST3 system in the (hopefully near) future. I wonder if they will replace some of the devices and change to all speaker/strobes to comply with modern code, or if they will just replace the panel. They will probably just upgrade to EST4, but almost anything (except probably Silent Knight) would be an upgrade.
I don’t think the current system is getting replaced anytime soon. Being such a large complex, it would cost way too much to replace. It may not sound like it but our school system is pretty small.
One of the theater speaker strobes
If im not mistaken, the voice evac is a Potter EVAX panel and it plays the code 3 whoop.
this is a picture of the theater Annunciator
1 Like
My middle school also had an EST system with an EVAX panel (The system had mainly horn strobes though.)
My schools mostly horn strobes too
Not sure why that would be the case if the main panel is an EST3 (which I’m pretty sure can have integrated voice & thus doesn’t need a separate voice panel, unless maybe that EST3 is replacing a previous FACP, which would explain the Gentex speaker/strobes (since of course it’d be much more likely to see Edwards speaker/strobes on an Edwards system).
the main panel is the smaller square est 3 with external voice evac
“smaller square est 3 with external voice evac”? What? Your explanation seems to make absolutely no sense to me.
Oh, that, okay. That EST3 has an external voice panel despite being voice-capable itself?
For some reason yes. Maybe they didn’t option it in?
Maybe. Seems like a dumb thing to do though when they could have just had the EST3 itself handle the voice portion (though like I said that may be because the separate voice panel was there already from a previous panel, & thus they just kept it there & tied the EST3 into it when the latter was installed).