Updated Tour: Notifier SFP-10UD Fire Alarm System at my Church (HIGHLY REQUESTED)

Back in late 2015, I uploaded a video walking around my church, showing the fire alarm system devices. For some reason, it blew up to almost 100k views, and a lot of people have been asking me what happened to it, why I took it down, and if I could republicize it. There are several reasons, but overall, I didn't like the way the video came out and my excitable behavior in the video (I was a disconnected teenager in my own world). Anyway, enough people apparently enjoyed this unique fire alarm system as much as I do. On Friday, I was pretty much the last out of the building as I was cleaning up after a joyful week of serving at our camp. Before locking up, I took the opportunity to rerecord a fire alarm system walkaround while I had my camcorder on me and the maintenance/alarm panel room was still open. As noted in the video, the one and only difference with the system from 11 years ago is the Edwards 270-SPO pull station outside the gym (the one activated when we had the false alarm) was swapped out for a Fire-Lite BG-12. The 3 STI Stopper II covers I picked up off of eBay and donated were also installed several years ago on that pull station, the one in the early childhood wing, and the one in the elementary wing. As you can see, this is a very strange mix of devices on this system from the different original/added on parts of the building, and this building probably has some of the most inconsistent fire alarm coverage I've ever seen with some areas having too many, and other areas not covered by notification appliances/initiating devices at all. To the best of my knowledge, parts of this system are from the late 60s/early 70s, 1992, and possibly 1998. My best guess on the original panel is possibly a Simplex 2001 or other brand panel from the same time period, but with the hodgepodge of vintage devices, it's hard to tell for sure what it was. I also don't know if there was another panel installed after the original panel before the 10UD was put in, if two panels controlling different parts of the building ever ran side by side, and at what point the entire system was tied together. From a comment I saw years ago, back in the 1960s and 1970s, when a lot of the new churches were being built, it was somewhat common for fire alarm devices to be purchased by different sources (possibly members of the congregations) and donated for install, explaining inconsistency in brands and models. How true that is for this building I'm not sure. Here's a complete list of all known devices: Main panel: Notifier SFP-10UD (mid to late 2000s/early 2010s) (5) Faraday F1GT "Chevron" pull stations (1992) (2) Edwards 270-SPO pull stations (60s/70s or possible replacements) (1) Notifier BNG-1 pull station (60s/70s?) (1) Simplex 4251-20 pull station (looks to be a later model, possible 70s) (1) Notifier NBG-12 pull station (late 2000s/early 2010s) (1) Fire-Lite BG-12 pull station (early 2020s) (4) Faraday 6120 horn/strobes (1992) (2) Faraday 5505 horn/strobes (60s/70s) (2) Wheelock 7002T horn/strobes (60s/70s) (7) Gentex SHG horn/strobes (1992 or 1998) As of right now, there are no plans to replace this system anytime soon, but our new facilities manager, who has been a part of our congregation for decades, will set aside for me anything that gets replaced. As much as I love that this system is still in service in 2026, I hope we will get it in the budget within the next 10 years to replace it with a new addressable system of some kind, not only so I can get the old devices preserved, but also for overall safety, consistency, and signal synchronization. It would be nice to see proper ceiling mount horn/strobe and strobe devices replace the SHGs, for all the alarms to be of the same series and sound the same, for new fire alarm wire to be run and devices added in no coverage areas (especially smoke detectors throughout and remote strobes added in the Sunday school rooms and restrooms), and for a remote annunciator or two to be added to the foyer. That's just my vision for this system, which would probably be in the ballpark of $10,000 if not more, but we'll see what happens and if it's ever brought up to modern code.