Fire Alarm Test #46 

I seem to recall at least one of the Simplex 4051s at my first elementary school sounding deep like that.

You forgot this one 0:35

0:53?

you mean the spectralert

1:48 thats the spectralert

Me to!

Yeah me too

me too

0:54

Jojuii

It's spelt, "S-Y-N-C." And a better way to phrase your sentence would be, "There's always that one alarm that's unsynchronized."

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@@tsg931man stfu no one cares 😭

Like my heater in the basement

JimLiElevators I believe that is a Simplex Remote-Light/Strobe

2904-9101.

Wow lol

My entire school still uses class change bells

It is a good joke

@Rieon

@@attackingchildren lmao thanks but this comment is old and this was before I got more into detail about alarms xd

0:53

To me, it sounds like everything is out of sync. The 2901s seem to be in sync, possibly the 4051s but they don’t sync with the 2901s. But at the last clip, I hear everything going crazy. I hear 4051s, TrueAlerts and Advances. Crazy!

@@Loganetics1 Oh yeah, not sure why that is, unless each set of signals are on different NACs.

@@TheCarson116 It’s entirely possible

My favorite alarm will forever be the wheelock EH/EL1

*cough* *cough* the advance fire alarms *cough*

The alarm is at 0:01

NLind Thanks for viewing!

NLind Just say “fuck.” It’s not that hard.

It’s a 2904.

It's, "B-L-E-E-P."

Don Beck they have merged into one

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Don Beck

No 0:52 is

Don Bec

yes, that's in Europe 😅 .. me too, there are some in France, there are NUGELEC, CHUBB, SICLI ... and ROSHNI sirens

TheJakeman789 These are primarily in small interior corridors where a horn is not needed.

It all started because of the Wheelock 34-24 and the Wheelock 34TERMINAL-24 EDIT and because of that fci mechanical Horn.

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Kindergarten- my elementary school had 2903-9101s with 2901-9840s with their horn cover removed which is unique, all in continuous, scared me half to death and I refused to go to school after our first drill. Course I was forced to go by my parents and was constantly stressed out they were going to go off, I didn't like leaving the class room or going to the bathroom, because the bathroom 2904s in the bathroom scared me as well. About a month later I had enough, a few months back I had been introduced to RU-vid when it was brand new, and I had a good idea to look up videos of fire alarms going off to get used to the sound. It worked, while also getting me interested in them, and I've been an enthusiast ever since then.

@@ScimitarRaccoonmy school has simplex true alerts but they have horn strobes in the bathrooms :/

@@Davesand2003 what’s a 34-24

firefreak57 Agreed

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I didn’t, I hated these types of fire alarms

firefreak57 j

Sounds like a fart but nice alarms

It's 9833 under 2903 plate not 9838

@@iluvmerc No, the only 9833 is the one behind the flush mount. the horns behind the 2903 were 9838's.

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Im going back to school tomorrow and I have a Roshnii if you come to my school you'll see them!

0:52 so creepy out

This type of fire alarm is perhaps the most unpleasant sounding one. Mix the ones that are semitones apart, and they sound creepy as fuck.

Most of the time, I usually don't care about the fire alarms. The one at the very end (1:45) sounds a bit creepy to me.

@@littleexperience2.._._._._._.. what is with your profile name

@@ajsmusic723 meme

gentex is too

my favorite is the truealert bc of the on-point horn

Wheelove Fire Alarms Thanks for viewing!

Cool horn

I got 2901 9838 horn strobe plates

Ikr?

BRIAN the TOWER guy Still is on the fire alarm side (NFPA 72). Sprinkler is separate (NFPA 13/25) and doesn’t apply here being theirs no sprinkler.

Thank you! I watch all your videos, your the reason I have simplex

Mine too

Yes i think so

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Yeah I did too sounds like some of the NAC's are out of sync because if you notice the Advances are heard after the mechanical horns stop

Thanks for viewing. I don’t believe the current panel allows for anything other than temporal coding being it basically functions as a “tricked out” security system. Also, current code dictates temporal signaling pattern.

Not True. Many Buildings And Schools In Illinois(Where I Live.) Still Uses Continuous and March Time in New Buildings. My Residential i Worked At, They're New Campus Has System Sensor P2r Horns on Continuous And Boy, Those are loud. They are set on High Volume to try to Get the occupants out of the building as Fast as Possible as the old building had Simplex 9805's Which were Dying. The Panel is a Notifier NFS-320 Control Panel.

@Marc Leslie My college campus was sticking with Continuous for their fire alarm systems for a long time, even when the Liberal Arts and Humanities buildings had their old Simplex 4207 systems completely replaced with a Faraday MPC-7000 system with Space Age VA4 horn/strobes. This was obviously due to grandfather clauses. They only began switching over to the Temporal coding this decade when many of the other buildings had their systems replaced (mostly Faraday panels from the 90s, along with a Fire-Lite MS-4424B and a Simplex 4020, all mostly replaced with Notifier systems and a Fire-Lite MS-9600UDLS), and they also replaced the alarm signals in those buildings (using SpectrAlert Advances and Exceders).

@Marc Leslie im going to disregard ur comment

wileyk209zback Ugh! Rare 4051s and 4050-80 light plates that are EXTREMELY rare and give collectors a great gem for their collection as well as bragging rights, that get replaced with boring and common spectra alerts. They should just go back to vibratones because nobody ignored them when they were going off. Yes I know spectra alerts are loud to, but nothing like the 4051. 😒

Yeah; fire alarm technicians don't seem to realize they are practically throwing away money when they replace the old alarms. And yes, the SpectrAlert Advance definitely cannot surpass the loudness of old electromechanical horns.

Bummer dude

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@Capt_ CJ Yeah, they also replaced the 4051+4050-80s in three buildings at my college with boring SpectrAlert Advances. (The two other buildings that also had old Simplex systems now have Space Age VA4 horn/strobes.) Also, it turns out at my old school, they still have the Simplex 4010 system in use! The 4208 (which was failing and is the reason for the Advances coming in) was gutted and is now used for terminal wiring, and they replaced the original 4208 battery cabinet with a couple of EST booster power panels. This really surprised me; I thought for sure they would've gone with Notifier or Fire-Lite like my college did.

No, that was just a really deep-sounding Simplex 4051.

4051

that was a simplex 4051

If it was, it was low-pitched like a late-gen Faraday. ;) (The 4051s are an early-gen Faraday) (pre-6020 and 5505) Like the later gen versions, they can be loosened and have a very low-pitched sound.

Vigilant 278

Same

Probably because it's replacing a 4051 horn that had failed.

Wow

Gary Beltz I thought I heard Integritys around 1:00...

TrueAlerts in some SpectrAlert in another area.

VCVCFans You mean pre-integritys right?

The 2901 series actually came out in 1980, IIRC. I've seen Simplex systems from 1978 and 1979 that used 4051+4050-80 alarms. Some systems installed in 1980 used the 4050-80s as well. The 2901 series was also discontinued around 1990, IIRC.

wileyk209zback I read that the 2901-9838 was discontinued in 1998

wileyk209zback the 2903 series light plates came out in 1978 and the 9806 as well as the 9833 came out for the light plates around the same year. But yes, the 9838 came out in around 1980 and was discontinued in 1998.

Not sure; as I said, I've seen Simplex systems installed in 1978-1979 with the 4050-80 light plates. Five buildings at my college were built in 1978 and they originally had Simplex 4207 systems with 4051+4050-80 horn/lights. (Two of the buildings now instead have Space Age VA4 horn/strobes, and the other three also had a lot of VA4s but now just have SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes.)

I feel you man that was my favorite era

Same

It’s the Simplex 4051 Mechanical Horn.

Yeah

Yes. I totally agree

@@nsb1598 same

Ian Gill most probably the next floor fire alarms

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It sounds like an integrity

spooka770 no it’s not

Goldenrod636 Thanks. Been busy but will see about getting back on there sometime soon.

Question: Are there more electronic horns in the building or electromechanical? And is the building gonna completely upgrade to electronic horns?

Goldenrod636 Mostly older electromechanical horns. I’d imagine they will be replaced at some point as they go bad or future renovations are done.

Apollo xp95? There in the uk and make a alternate ton aka hi lo and pulse

Sorry I accidentally disliked

ManOf_Steel0894 I can too.

Shaun Puzon wow that code out of sync but I love the old alarm sound on code 3 and I can hear the trualart and the advanced

It would sound better in Marchtime.

I knew it was a Simplex 4051

Either a locally coded system or old California code if I had to guess.

Probably California Code.

Local Code(Two Stage) or if you are In The State of California, Its California Code. If you didnt live there, Its In Prealarm(1st stage). Afterwards, It will sound in a More Consistent Pattern after a time period. 😂Which puts the System in second stage after the timer runs out. But its California Code More than likely

Siemens has gotten worse, with using the Wheelock ZNS horn/strobes and remote strobes. I saw some nice old Simplex systems get replaced by such boring Siemens systems. They've gotten almost as bad as EST, if not worse. And they often use RSG's T-bar pulls, so if it wasn't for the smoke detectors and the fact that Wheelock exclusively makes the Z-series for Siemens, they'd be no different from your average low-cost fire alarm company's offerings!

@@ZakWolf EST IS NOT BAD

Sounds as nice as a train wreck

Sounded great other than the advance

I'm getting the same thing and I have a pretty decent setup for my computer

The ADA rules apply to new buildings and systems. These alarms were installed before 1990, and are thus grandfathered in (exempt).

Thanks for viewing! And as Fahrenheit mentioned, most of it is grandfathered.

That’s the cool part with mechanical horns!

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