Great explanation video as always! Gamewell centurys were my favorite pull stations around the time i first got into fire alarms back in 2018. I remember making paper ones and i was absolutely obsessed with them! Lucky me in 2019 got my first fire alarm, which was indeed a century! But not just any century, it was a 1970's century and the model was simply M46, unlike the usual M46-XX. I still have it to this day and i restored it to it's original state.
Fun fact, the addressable ones are not polarity sensitive, but the smoke detectors are which is why they are still color coded. Also worth noting that protocol-wise, they are not XP95 devices but Series 90 Manual Call Points. I found that out when the programming software could not import the autolearn program from my panel. Because of this, they are not listed for use on non-Gamewell UL panels that run the proper Apollo protocol, and unlike when connected to Gamewell panels, do not visually poll when connected to them
They also made an FPJ plate for those pulls too, you would mount the pull on top of the plate. It mounted on a double gang switch box. Btw the century came out in 1962
I'm a bit surprised to see the french one considering they couldn't be bothered to change the casting when Cerberus Pyrotronics used them on addressable systems. Those just had a Cerberus Pyrotronics badge riveted over the Gamewell name, and I think they look quite nice. There were also different addressable versions for every protocol they made alongside the plastic MS series, maybe with the exception of Faraday.
Used to see these everywhere long time ago, Stop & Shop had them in an FCI system and EST Pre-Integrity’s, an IKEA furniture store in New Haven has them, and an abandoned middle school in my town also has them as well. There are other places that have them but I forgot. And I didn’t know these things were manufactured in the 2000’s, interesting.
@@HenBasketFireAlarms I believe it kinda was an early EST system. One of the other stores next door in that medium size Stop & Shop plaza also has more EST systems (Full EST) and a few system sensor systems. Stop & Shop was the only store in that plaza that had a mixture of EST and FCI. How I know that it could be an FCI system even though I didn’t see a control panel or anything, before the whole system got replaced after Stop & Shop was renovated into a new look, One of the defective Gamewell Centuries were replaced with these Gamewell/FCI medal T-Bars by the entrances only. For the smoke detectors, I forgot what they were. Unfortunately the system is now gone, and the new System Sensor system was installed, so basically I can’t look any deeper about that unique system to see if I’m wrong or right.
Neat video. I would've thought these stations were only made throughout the 50s to 60s, but hearing that they were produced up to the 2000s is sonehwat impressive. Is Gamewell still active?
Gamewell has merged with FCI, and the Gamewell-FCI brand is owned by Honeywell, is a similar way as Fire Lite/Notifier/Silent Knight. They currently use the BG-12 pull stations. Gamewell-FCI is common on my college campus, but unfortunately older Gamewell is not. Our older systems are FCI and use the MS-2 and MS-6 pulls. I was just as surprised to find that the similarly retro MS-2s were ALSO produced through the 2000s, likely being discontinued at the same time as the Century when the merged company switched to BG-12s.
The alarms are in my school are Weelock as rebranded by gamewell and Weelock rsss rebranded by gamewell and sti stopers and a gamewell fc I facP don’t forget my brain we also have Weelock NS also don’t forget Weelock exeeders
I always put the Gamewell Century and FCI MS2 pull stations in this category: they looked much older than they were, plus the two companies merged at some point in the 2000s. I’m pretty sure both were likely discontinued in the 2000s when Gamewell-FCI (Now a Honeywell product) brand switched to BG-12s. I could be completely wrong though.
