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Simplex 2901-9838 horn/strobe in one of
the non-renovated sections of the old wing
of Alexander Library. Unlike the picture of
the one in your collection, the unit here is
arranged so that the strobe is ABOVE the
horn, as are all but one of the other
horn/strobes of this type that I've seen on
RU (you'll see the exception later in the
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This Simplex 4903-9422 replaced a 2901-9838 in Alexander Library, and as you can
see, the "FIRE" text is sideways as a result
of the alarm being installed to be tall
rather than wide (for lack of better words).
What's odd is, I have seen a "tall" version
of this model where "FIRE" is written
straight across underneath the grille. |
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This is rather interesting...once again this is
in the old wing of the library, and is a
retrofit application, but there is still a trim
plate behind the pull station. |
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Well, this picture didn't come out how I
wanted it to (I'm not a great photographer
here) but this is an old bell in the library
that was (still is?) used for general
signaling purposes. Exactly what kind of
general signaling, I don't know. |
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Heat detector on the ceiling of a bathroom
in Alexander Library. |
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This is in Busch Campus Center...behind
that grille is a bell, and then above that is a
red light of some sort with "FIRE" written
on it, a very early audio/visual alarm. |
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The earlier version of the Simplex T-Bar
pull station, with a pull station cover that I
never saw until I came to Rutgers (at least
not as far as I remember). Also from
Busch Campus Center. |
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The latest incarnation of the Wheelock MT,
outside of Brett Hall. I believe this would
be set to the March Time pattern, since I
heard the alarms going off at Mettler Hall,
which is a similar building and has a
similar fire alarm system, and that system
was set to March Time Horn. (Inside the
horns are Simplex 4903-9425's) |
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Now I don't know what this is exactly, but I
just know that it's an old fire alarm
signaling device in our dining hall, Brower
Commons. |
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This is in the newly renovated Busch Dining
Hall. Now this looks like it's a retrofit of
the original fire alarm system. The horn
conduit seems to be extended, and the pull
station is the old style. Also note the
annunciator. |
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Well, the actual developed picture I have of
this looks clear, but when the developers
put my picture onto a CD, they messed it
up. If you look carefully what you'll see is a
smoke detector, in the hallway of my
dorm, Clothier Hall. |
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A pull station in my dorm, protected by an
alarmed cover, which just might have
contributed to the fact that we haven't had
any pranksters pull the alarm yet. |
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The remote strobe in the main lobby of
Clothier. |
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Bell on a mid-90s strobe retrofit plate, in
the computer lab, note how the bell is
sideways. |
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Siren above the main doors of Clothier;
goes off if the door is left open for more
than 30 seconds. |
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Speaker-strobe and fire emergency phone
in one of Clothier's elevators. |
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Edwards electronic horn that sounds if the
emergency exit door is opened. It seems to
be connected to the fire alarm
system-perhaps the horn doesn't sound if
the main fire alarm is going off. I don't
know because nobody used this door
during the fire drill. |
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Fire emergency phone jack in my dorm. |
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An old Edwards Adaptabel in the basement
of Frelinghuysen Hall (it's a dorm, with a
fire alarm system very much like Clothier's,
and there are classrooms in the
basement). Probably a component of the
original fire alarm system though I'm not
positive. |
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Well, this wasn't MEANT to be a fire alarm
picture, but you get a side view of a
speaker/strobe. Of course you might want
to look at the lovely ladies of Clothier 2
instead! |
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Old Simplex bell and pull station from Lucy
Stone Hall. |
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Also from Lucy Stone Hall, as you notice
the pull station is an Edwards, an oddity for
Simplex-dominated Rutgers. It's obviously
a replacement pull, though, and the bell is
a Simplex (also a replacement, for a bell of
the type pictured above). |
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A third shot from Lucy Stone Hall, the
original pull station is intact here but the
bell is a replacement once again. A lot of
these old fire bells have been replaced in
this building and others, I don't see why
they don't just replace the fire alarm
system altogether. |
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This shot is from a stairwell in McKinney
Hall. What's notable here is that the pull
station is just barely below the horn. The
pull is at the edge of the upper landing of
the stairwell while the horn is above the
stairs. |
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Another shot from McKinney...pull station,
horn/strobe and FACP are all visible. I
believe the system dates back to the mid-to-late '80s. |
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The annunciator from the old STANDARD
fire alarm system at Milledoler Hall (this
was before RU dedicated themselves to
Simplex). |
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Pull station from Milledoler. |
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Old-school Wheelock MT outside of Pell
Hall. |
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I THINK this pull station is from Alexander
Library but I'm not 100% sure. |
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Well, this is another example of my poor
photography skills...this is from the
Rutgers Student Center. Note that the horn
seems to have been installed on the
retrofit plate sideways. |
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Well, here it is...the only 2901-9838 I've
spotted on Rutgers that was installed as
seen on the Schumin Web. This is also
from the Rutgers Student Center. |
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Another shot from the RSC, with an
expanded pull station conduit. |
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Well, this is going a bit off-campus, to the
newest wing of ever-growing Robert Wood
Johnson Hospital. This is Simplex's current
speaker/strobe model. |
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And here's the FACP from that wing of the
building. In fact, note on the right you can
see part of ANOTHER FACP, but with no
annunciator boards yet. Wonder what
that'll be used for... |
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Now going across the street from RWJ to
my original high school, St. Peter's. The
current Notifier system retains a lot of the
components from the old Simplex system,
such as the pull station seen here, but the
old bells were replaced with Wheelock AS
horn/strobes. I was paying a visit to this
school that day and since I had a camera
with me I seized the opportunity. |
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Back on Rutgers, in the SCILS building, this
is a rather similar retrofit application to the
one seen above, only they stuck with
Simplex here. |
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This horn in Scott Hall is at about EAR
LEVEL, pretty damn low to the ground, but
hey, they couldn't put it any higher. |
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Another shot from Scott (hey, I'm a poet
and I didn't know it!) Now here they
definitely should've put the horn higher! |
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Cut off at the top, but yet another retrofit
application that retained a lot of original
parts, this time from Voorhees Hall. |
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And FINALLY *drumroll*, last but not least,
the speaker/strobe in MY DORM ROOM!! |
