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By Anthony J. Shalna 2009 Principal IMSA Representative to the Automatic Fire Alarm Association
President: Southeastern Signalmen of Massachusetts
gized single stroke devices, such as gongs, electromechanical punch registers, etc. could also be connected
in series with the boxes. The punch registers perforate
a strip of paper in accordance with the box code and
then time and date stamp the strip, giving a hard copy
of the code and time of alarm. (The TV show American
Pickers recently showed a punch register they bought
for resale, and the Pickers didnt have a clue as to
what it was!) Some towns even have solenoid valves
installed in the loop to blow large air horns. Larger
systems connect all gongs, solenoids, etc. into a separate alarm circuit rather than intermingle them with
boxes. Switchboards in large cities now have electronic
decoders, but older systems in small towns might very
well have these gongs, etc. in use. A gong located in
a fire substation will automatically sound the code of
the box in alarm.
The use of a series loop with normally closed coding devices would
appear to be fraught with problems,
but actually, this setup is exceedingly well planned. The boxes have
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