Anyone know w t f this is ?

[BlazeES]

Saw this in a house the other day.
The squarish job on the right is tied to an ADT system,
but the round bugger on the left ... no clue.

Anyone know what this gizmo is ?

 

[NavLinear]

It's a device that senses heat and when the temperature passes a certain threshold it sets of a pretty loud bell to warn the inhabitants of fire. There's a chain that you could pull to set off the bell to scare the boogie man away - or the living crap out of yourself. Ask me how I know.

The orange protrusion in the down position indicates the alarm is not set or someone pulled the chain or... IIRC you can wind this guy back up and push the orange arm up to reset it - or something like that.

 

[fitz43]

Anyone know what this gizmo is ?

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Didn't you pull the chain to see what it would do?

 

[fitz43]

It's a device that senses heat and when the temperature passes a certain threshold it sets of a pretty loud bell to warn the inhabitants of fire.

Before smoke detectors it was heat only?

 

[NavLinear]

Before smoke detectors it was heat only?

These were sold with smoke detectors - the selling point was a smoke detector may not sense smoke until it was late in the game. These were intended to sound out a warning before the smoke detector - at least that was the claim. Plus you could pull the chain.

 

[Lazarus Short]

​I have, or used to have, one of those. It didn't have a chain.

 

[Northwinds]

Stop pulling my chain LOL

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

old style fire alarm.... Wakes grandma up if you were smoking weed in bed and caught you silk jammies on fire.

 

[BlazeES]

old style fire alarm.... Wakes grandma up if you were smoking weed in bed and caught you silk jammies on fire.

L L

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

old style fire alarm.... Wakes grandma up if you were smoking weed in bed and caught you silk jammies on fire.

Yeah, you just pull it and run (telling granny, every man for himself). I'd rather be a live coward than a dead hero.....

 

[BlazeES]

It's a device that senses heat and when the temperature passes a certain threshold it sets of a pretty loud bell to warn the inhabitants of fire. There's a chain that you could pull to set off the bell to scare the boogie man away - or the living crap out of yourself. Ask me how I know.

The orange protrusion in the down position indicates the alarm is not set or someone pulled the chain or... IIRC you can wind this guy back up and push the orange arm up to reset it - or something like that.

OK. Thanks. Makes sense now.

I did try messing with it but it wasn't set (wound up) and that lever was kind of stiff, so I left it alone.

The BS thing was that the real estate agent had no idea what it was ...
and the house wasn't THAT old.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

There may not have been power back there so they put a manual unit in. Probably won't meet code but if yer in the county, screw it...

 

[BlazeES]

There may not have been power back there so they put a manual unit in. Probably won't meet code but if yer in the county, screw it...

This house, built in the mid-nineties, had one in the master BR and another in the family room. Nowhere else.
I guess the previous occupants (it's vacant) never thought to upgrade to battery operated Kidde units.

 

[Fast Forward]

All I can tell you is if you need Battery they are a good source

 

[Web Police]

This house, built in the mid-nineties, had one in the master BR and another in the family room. Nowhere else.
I guess the previous occupants (it's vacant) never thought to upgrade to battery operated Kidde units.

Maybe the prior owner brought them over from his prior turn of the century home.