Fire House Alerting

T Niss

Looking fo any input for an alerting system in the fire house. We are looking to open speakers at max volume in certain rooms, turn on the lights in the bunk rooms and shut off power to the stove and counter top outlets in the members kitchen. Does any one have a system like this in your fire house? If so who made your system?

Doc Holliday

In our station we are still kinda running an older system yet, its a twotone receiver with multiple amplified speakers in various areas so when the tone goes off we hear it and it is LOUD to.
This is just a temp setup until after they see what the final decision is with the state and county on going digital or where that stands at the moment.

TNFF412N

the speaker thing is the easy part, now turning on lights and turning off the stove and plugs in a room is the harder part, they make curcuit breakers that can be tripped by a low voltage trip like 12v. this is not something i would recommend you do i would call an electrician and get them to hook you up, it can be done with just a little planning and thought put into it

RadioTech

I usually use one or two channels on a federal FC siren controller -or- add my own twotone/dtmf decoder board to a receiver. sirens, building lights, door locks, radio unmute,beacons, klaxons, repage, ect.. can all be controlled by a single dtmf/two tone decoder w/ a crap load of relays and time delays.

There are so many ways that you can go about this. If your using 2tone, The cheapest way would be to use the switched output on a minitor2,3,4,5 pager base. The more crap you add, The more complex the control circuit gets.

For the appliances, You would use high amperage magnetic contactors with an abb/ssac model tru2 or tru3 set on single shot. (my td of choice) That would give you auto reset after a preset time w/ an override switch incase you returned back to the station early. Or you can use a latching relay that you could manually reset.

What is your budget on this project?

ALLCOMM · Member Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Revere, MA

This is what most FD's are using in our area. You can do everything you want with this system.

http://zetron.com/data/site/templates/zetrontemplate.asp?area_0=pages/menus/firestationprod&area_1=pages/products/fsa/m6-26

mjMIff · Regular Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 95 Location: Michigan

Describes how to do it with a Pager (what we do, lights only) -

http://radioetcetera.googlepages.com/firestationalerting

Federal Tone Alert Receiver -

http://www.federalwarningsystems.com/products.php?prodid=25

DaveCN5

We use the Zetron. It's cool because we don't have to do anything. The dispatcher's control it all and can control each station independently and it all works on a small number pad.

T Niss

We use 2 tone now but are going to digital near the end of 2009. Is there a system that could work now and then be converted for digital?

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