Neat system for sure, especially given how many different kinds of smoke detectors there are in it!
You’ve got the last part backwards: it’s a 9201.
That’s actually a smoke/heat detector (specifically the smoke/heat version of the 2098-9201).
That’s also a smoke/heat detector (a 4098-9602 more than likely) owing to the small “cone” sticking out of the very bottom/top of the detector head, which is the heat sensor.
I have to wonder what caused that weird out-of-place horizontal tile to be put there…
Quite the uncommon combo for sure! (since I believe by the time the 4903-series of light & strobe plates went into production the 2901-9838 was the standard Simplex electromechanical horn going by how often they’re installed with 4903s)
They also moved the P2RL horn/strobe and Faraday F1GT Chevron from their previous locations (mounted on adapter devices where the original Standard Electric Time equipment was) and wired them directly to the annunciator as part of installing a new drop ceiling. In the areas with addressable devices, the NBG-12LX pulls now blink green, as opposed to red when the Student Union had an AFP-200 panel with the CLIP protocol.
You mean the cardboard “NOT IN SERVICE” sign? It’s actually covering up what’s left of the Notifier AFP-200 panel. That Standard Electric Time “Alarmatic” panel had already been gutted and configured for terminal wiring when the AFP-200 was installed in the late 1990s and it’s still kind of obvious it’s being used for that (the controls being removed and visible wiring through the openings).
My elementary school had an odd system: Spectralert Classics on continuous, with an odd high-low played over the PA system. It went high-lowwwww high-lowwwwwww. If anyone knows why it was setup this way, let me know
well well well, i need an explantion on my post a bit.
The cage guard is in the Auxilary Gym. I will do a map of the school someday, lol. We have some, i dont want to leak anything.
The cafeteria’s are weird, they love putting different alarms up. (its because they do voice evacuation in the gym and cafeteria. The high school is different. I WILL try my best, its a large system. They have one truealert, for some reason. The message is hooked up to the two gigantic speakers on the wall, the strobes flash and the alarms do play the message along. That’s how my elementary school did it, they were built 1 year apart from each other, 1999 and 2000.
Ok. I have never been in the New Gym for alarm conditons, My guess is that they have it ran off something rather. My elementary school didn’t even have a voice evac panel!! How does it work? Maybe some not up to code voice relay? Probably. The new gym is probably different, i saw the permit for the alarms.
I’m fighting over what the heck the panel is . It’s ridiculous, you have to have an electrical permit for the building to wire up fire alarms or put one in or upgrading one. The school hadn’t had any about the panel, the panel has ran out of nac’s lol.
The PA system for modern systems have the option for a alarm or message play, it may be required in your state. PA’s are helpful as if an alarm in an area is not hearable, the PA will still work and play a tone vise versa
My high school has a Notifier NFS2-3030, there is two LCD-160 annunciators, pulls are NBG-12LXs, smoke detectors are a mix of FSP-851 and FSP-951s, notification is all Spectralert Advances.
I haven’t been here for a while (forgot my login), but UPDATE: the school I go to has completely replaced their alarm system, and now it’s all of those ACEND series Siemens alarms. I got to have one of the old Wheelock alarms too, so that’s pretty cool. A friend of mine has all of the other ones from the old system.
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?
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.
. It’s ridiculous, you have to have an electrical permit for the building to wire up fire alarms or put one in or upgrading one. The school hadn’t had any about the panel, the panel has ran out of nac’s lol.