Horn Strobe Overkill

[jkvernon]

I found these alarms in the turf room in the building I work at. These are Simplex 2901-9806s horn strobes and they can't be installed more than 12 feet apart. Non of the other alarms in the entire building are installed this close together so I have no idea as to the logic behind such an install.

[Charlie Davidson]

Maybe the building owners thought that adding 2 horn/strobes 12ft. apart from each other would be louder.

That's definitely against code.

[Federal Signal fan]

Perhaps one is deactivated.

[jerrylovessirens]

Like I always say, overkill is better than underkill!

[Travis]

Perhaps this room used to be two rooms, or maybe there was some kind of partition or something that divided the room, warranting another unit.

[bwillcox]

The light almost makes the one on the dark side of the room look more like a Wheelock 34T than a 9806 in the last picture.

Its probably just overzealousness on the installers part, or they need the second notification appliance there due to the size of the room. The 9806s are not very loud.

I have a better fire-alarm overkill than this, though.

One of the facilities I work in has a small room at the top of a stairwell that has a Cerberus Pyrotronics U-MHT on the wall, and a Wheelock ZNS (the loudest horn/strobe in existence!) on the ceiling.

There is also a pull for each system (a CP MS501/Fire-lite BG12) and a smoke for each (an older CP smoke, looks much like the modern System Sensor Pinnacles, and a System Sensor photo smoke)

This, of course, is utter overkill, but is what you get when a building is finished out in phases like that one was.

[whydoesthisalwayshappento]

I'd like to hear what they sound like if they are activated if at all possible.