In the Boone County and Hebron area of Kentucky, Gentex Alarms are Very Common. Especially Gentex Commanders. Almost every Building around here has at least one Gentex Device of some sort. System Sensor is probably the next Most Common Brand in the Area.
In Rhode Island, many buildings still have ESL 1500 series fire panels, with ESL-rebranded RSG pull stations.
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Welcome to the forums! Thatās definitely interesting that they are using so many old panels still. What notification appliances are most common in those systems?
In my area (Prague, Czech Repulbic), one brand you can find basically everywhere. That is Esser by Honeywell. Next common is Schrack (local austrian brand). What I find 3rd common is Tyco on MX protocol. most other brands are rare or uncommon and are quite hard to find.
Now in Croatia similar systems are common but there is also more variety.
Esser, Schrack, inim (usually not for main systems), and siemens are installed often. But other brands such as notifie, apollo and others arenāt hard to find.
Netherlands would have siemens in many large buildings and complexes, apollo being in many medium sized buildings, with esser coming third in larger medium buildings. The netherlands also has some variety so finding other brands like notifer and GE wouldnt be hard to come by.
Hungary has several brands that would be found everywhere. First, siemens are in many larger buildings and complexes, apollo can be easily found in medium sized buildings, system sensor is quite common in medium to larger buildings and so is schrack and bosch.
Slovenia is also quite similar system wise to hungary except with bosch.
Italy has a large variety but most common include: notifier, siemens, and esser.
France has many brands that are only found in france though larger buildings have systems commonly found elsewhere such as esser, siemens and system sensor. Legrand also has a popular fire division in france but is mostly found in smaller buildings.
Germany and austria usually only have systems in medium-larger buildings. Popular systems include (this time in order): Esser, siemens, schrack, bosch.
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My immediate area is Gamewell Fci, Nearly everything is Gamewll Fci, My school district installs them and A new shopping center uses a lot of it (2 of the buildings have fire lite). Other than that buildings use other Honeywell brands, Simplex, two uses EST, a hotel has Siemens; though many buildings donāt have anything at all. Other than my immediate area I have found a pretty fair mix of brands in my larger area.
Often there are SpectrAlert Classics or Wheelock ASes
I see. At least they are using āmodernā code compliant devices.