I highly doubt they would, and even if they did the FTC would likely stop the merge. Given how large both companies already are in many fields, the merger would likely cause them to have an unfair market domination. Currently the major brands are Siemens, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Honeywell. The merging of the two would cause a major shift in how much of the fire alarm market is owned by who, and that’s not even mentioning other markets like HVAC and other building controls.
In addition, I highly doubt that should the merger be allowed, the resulting company would not want to give up on IDNAC given the TrueAlert ES series is the only fully addressable notification appliance in the North American market.
What If: Because Cerberus Pyrotronics’ parent company also owned Landis and Gyr, Cerberus Pyrotronics made rebranded EST/FAST equipment because Landis and Gyr rebranded EST and FAST pulls?
Probably noting much different that now, other than more people being able to understand how to activate the device. we also may have more false alarms as call points are much easier to activate.
Probably there’ll be less false alarms. Glass panes are easier to break, impossible to reset (without replacing one), and more likely to injure fingers when being pressed. Thus it would have a better effect disencouraging vandals and pranksters from breaking them randomly.
Well yeah, but most modern call points have plastic instead of glass & are more convenient since they can be reset without having to replace any glass.
The SK-6208 was likely never a thing due to conventional panels being seen as “obsolete” by the time the 6000-series came out, hence why all the panels in that line are addressable.
That’s not what I was asking. This thread is made to think about what would happen if a manufacturer did or didn’t do something. Not why something didn’t happen lol