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A Mysterious Wall-Mounted Alarm

Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:06 am

I found this today in my band classroom. All it says on it is "ALERT" on both sides with an amber strobe in the middle. Any ideas?
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Re: A Mysterious Wall-Mounted Alarm

Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:08 am

It looks like an EST Genesis ceiling mount amber colored remote strobe. Pretty cool nonetheless.
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Re: A Mysterious Wall-Mounted Alarm

Fri Sep 09, 2016 4:13 am

It actually doesn't look like an EST Genesis ceiling mount... Hard to tell though. Maybe an early one...
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Re: A Mysterious Wall-Mounted Alarm

Fri Sep 09, 2016 11:01 am

I'm not sure if they got a used one, but this unit was recently installed, as I had not seen this before.
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Re: A Mysterious Wall-Mounted Alarm

Fri Sep 09, 2016 3:53 pm

coastalsyrolover wrote:It actually doesn't look like an EST Genesis ceiling mount... Hard to tell though. Maybe an early one...
It most definitely is. The exact model is GCWA-VMA.
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Re: A Mysterious Wall-Mounted Alarm

Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:19 pm

Curious, does the school have an actual lockdown/intruder alert system or a tornado warning system? band rooms are usually so loud it is impossible to hear anything that comes over the intercom system, including the intruder alert/lockdown notifications.
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Re: A Mysterious Wall-Mounted Alarm

Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:32 pm

That may be why one was installed there, as recently I found another of the same type in the lunchroom; both loud locations.
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Re: A Mysterious Wall-Mounted Alarm

Wed Sep 28, 2016 1:59 pm

I went to a middle school that had a system of Simplex TrueAlerts on a Simplex 4100U. In the gym and cafeteria were the old '50s style Edwards Adaptahorns. They never failed to get our attention when we had a fire drill. They put the other alarms to shame.
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