Got another fail. Found a smoke detector hanging by its wires at Van Andle Arena in Grand Rapids. Sadly I didn’t think to take a picture.
I have seen some EST integity alarms that have their strobes falling off. That was at the event center in my city.
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I have seen an lcd 80 that has some problems where random characters will appear on the screen.
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That may just be a problem with the LCD-80 annunciator and the LCD-40 as well, its older brother.
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Display of the panel says:
FIRE 1/1
SYSTEM ON FIRE
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I stayed at a hotel last night with what I’m thinking was a Simplex 4010 system. There was an annunciator behind the front desk in the lobby that had the key in it and was unlocked. I don’t know why they had it unlocked because the system didn’t seem to have any troubles.
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Saw this at school today. I have heard that
This model seems to have this issue.
Update: I walked by it today and it was fixed. Wouldn’t hurt to replace the alarm though.
This isn’t that bad, but they still are falling off of the backbox.
The device is a system sensor spectralert ceiling mount speaker.
and you have a detector missing a trim ring.
Cool exit sign in the background
Heres a good one
My friend sent me this earlier and the key was left in this panel, out of a storage closet and at a tamperable height
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Oh. My school has a lot of interesting exit signs.
I have seen Integrities do that as well.
It is on, I don’t know why the LCD is blank, but the AC power light is on. By the way, at every CVS I go to the annunciator always has the key in it and it bugs me so much.
Makes you wonder if they have a false alarm problem.
Yesterday I saw a Siemens Desigo Modular in a large hotel in Miami with 240 troubles, 1 supervisory, and 7 alarms.
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How is that even possible for that many issues?
Ooh, I have a pretty funny one.
We were doing some fire alarm testing on a bunch of different buildings, most of them with small one- to four-zone Kingfisher systems, which are usually just radio transmitters but can be used for very small fire alarm service. Well, we get to another building that actually has a Pyrotronics System 3. It must’ve been a later revision because upon further inspection the board was a CP-35.
We didn’t notice at first, but the lamp test switch had a small wood screw wedged into it to keep the switch pressed. The lighting was too dim and we didn’t squat down to see that the switch was also the reset button!
So, without knowing that the system was literally stuck in an endless reset loop, we went around the building testing initiating devices. None of the pull stations we hit worked. I must’ve smoked out at least a half dozen smoke detectors. We had been testing other buildings all morning so I was beginning to worry that I was about to run out of smoke.
We went back to the panel to inspect it further, and once we discovered that the reset switch was being constantly held down, we pulled out the screw, and all seemed normal until the alarms went off! We couldn’t get the system to reset, so we took the opportunity to at least check for audibility while we figured out how to keep the system reset.
While I was walking around, I noticed one of the smoke detectors had a latched LED. It seemed to be visibly dirtier than the other detectors, so when we eventually silenced the system, I pulled it and we reset the system - thankfully, it didn’t go back into alarm again.
So, an entire system was effectively disabled because a detector went bad, latched into alarm, and the ‘solution’ the building occupants had to ‘fix’ it, was to shove a screw into the reset switch.
Needless to say, that entire system has been recommended to be replaced.
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