Here’s video number 1 of a new series I’m starting on my YouTube channel! Lots of new and interesting devices to see in this, along with some more better quality photos of some of the variety of alarms in my previous videos (mostly at my school) as well as some of the new TrueAlertES alarms I’ve seen in my area as most of the new installations are primarily Simplex due to them having a huge office down here. Also photographed are numerous new Simplex IDNet pull stations (I should say all of them except the older 2099-9761 MAPNET II stations at my school as well as the conventional ones photographed) with LEDs in them. Also pictured that is more rare are Wheelock weatherproof speakers in a pool area on a Simplex 4100ES system, and I also got a picture of the massive 2-3 bay 4100ES remote command center with annunciator and the LifeAlarm controls.
Also on the cruise ship, the call points and smoke detectors are made by Autronica, and if I’m correct I believe that’s a company out of Norway somewhere (the ship itself was built in Germany). And those alarms are used for a lot more than fire emergencies (hence them being unmarked) and are Potter Select-a-Speaker Strobes. When you activate a call point on the ship, no alarms are activated; the system instead sets off an alarm in the bridge to alert the Captain of an emergency, from which he can sound the General Emergency Alarm or the Abandon Ship Signal (if necessary in extreme cases) and dispatch crew members which have been specially trained to contain and knock down fires.
But anyways enjoy the photos (and yes, the video took a while to edit and upload to YouTube, so I hope you enjoy)!