That's what a fire alarm should sound like, not those "squawkers"! This is what most of the schools in Dade County, Florida, used. My high school had to use a code 5 signal, the alternate signal, because we had an elementary school within earshot of the high school's bells. The elementary school used code 3, so the high school used code 5 to avoid confusion. There were no pull-station fire alarms; the bells were manually rung from the office. Since then, the schools have been refitted with pull-station alarms.
Thought of you today Nic...when I was getting off the ferry at the terminal I saw an MB-24 with a label someone had stuck on it which said "Bruh I'm broken" (which is almost all the time 50% true of MB-24s til they...well break) Interesting tidbit also about the Edwards vibratory bells. The original bells they made up until the release of the 439D in 84 were bolted on in such a way that you couldn't remove their gongs easily plus they also stated on the front label "do not remove gong". Edwards at the time claimed that "the self adjusting feature compensates for wear" and that "your new Edwards bell is of a precision movement design" in any case the 439D actually requires you to remove the gong upon install and made such an action easy. I guess the good folks at Edwards realized that was a much better method than what the old Durabel/Adaptabels required. Cool van also Nic...you work so well at what you do that I hope you can have one of your own someday soon. Good job on-site there...the system is all ready for the BIG fire drill in early October.
Sweet! I like the long form videos. For some reason I thought the 6500 systems were from the late 60s but could've been earlier/later +/- 10 years so I'm not sure. Back when I went to middle school, they had just replaced an old 6500 and that place was built mid 1960s in Alberta so not sure. Interesting either way
What I will never understand is how other countries, city’s etc have such slow reacting bells. The ones at my grandparents activate in about half a second! I don’t understand it. The locks there work well too. They don’t need to be slammed… The ones in my building work well…. Those need to be slammed tho…. It’s weird to me…….. every place except the ones is here I live has horrible alarm pulls. In my opinion the cheap one is MS401. Bad pull station.
I agree with the fact the Quickstart is Trash. The whole thing is basically held together with duct tape and glue, figuratively speaking. Its not as bad as the EST 2 or 3 though. Those systems suck really really bad. My middle school had a faulty EST 3 system that just false alarmed all the time. Eventually the school just waited for the system to trip itself for monthly fire drills. Also, to add insult to injury, when the school did pull for drills, the system would take at least 30 seconds to trip. All in all, EST products following the EST 1 are beyond disposable (excluding the iO, genesis, or SIGA pull series).
The schools I went to didn’t have portables. I can see them definitely benefiting off of them. As for the strobes on the outside, why did they go with blue beacon looking ones instead of integrity strobes?
14:48 Why did you steal a cookie from that teacher? That reminds me of when I was younger and I was with my friend and we ate all of the cookies out of a break room, this was at my Grandpa's old work place before he retired and he was helping my friend's Dad 🤣🤣🤣
been there done that my grade 6 year and yes it would definitely startle you it was worse if you knew it was coming and we're just waiting to get a jump scare at any moment
@ 18:54 in my gym, in the men’s locker room, there is a bell that was loose somewhat the gong, so what all I do is I would go up to the wall. Kick it and the bell would ring two or three times and so many kids got suspended for it. That was in my old middle school, but anyways keep up the good content.
@@nics-systems-electric Well i did not since the administration loved me, and they knew i was into alarms and all this. but they didn’t care that i did it since i was on there good side lol
Based on the exit signage, is this in Canada? The exit signage looks similar to that used in the UK (the green "running man" sort) as opposed to the red on white signage found in the US (and I think Canada until about 10 years ago, when I know they switched to European style exit signage). Most fire alarms in the UK make a constant noise. I believe the same used to be true in the US/Canada until the late 1990s when temporal code 3 became standard. As someone with noise sensitivity issues, I'd personally rather hear a constant two-tone sound (which is common in newer buildings in the UK) than one of the ear piercing temporal code 3 buzzers commonly found in the US, but I'd rather have an electric bell producing the temporal code 3 pattern like in this school than a constant electric bell (these are still the norm in older UK buildings built about 25+ years ago). I don't think there is any law in the UK or Europe prohibiting temporal code 3, rather there is simply no law requiring it and so alarms generally remain the same in this regard to how they were in North America prior to 1996. Some newer home smoke detectors in the UK produce the pattern if they sound, although my home smoke detectors produce a constant beeping noise. Assuming that this was filmed in Canada, do you know roughly how often this school has a fire drill? In the UK where I live they typically happen about 1-3 times a year, but I know some US states require them once a month.
Interesting. In the U.S, at least in Washington State (I live in Seattle), we only do fire drills about 2x per year, but we have to do an emergency drill every month. Those can be, Fire, Earthquake, Lockdown, or Shelter in place. Also, the majority of fire alarm devices installed here are horns, not bells. My elementary school was an old historic wood frame structure built in 1905. An addition was added in 2001, and sprinklers and an EST system were installed. (This remodel was attempted on another identical building across the city, but the building burned during the remodel!) The panel is unknown, but it has uncommon edwards integrity power saver horn strobes in red, and the “traffic cone” style smoke detectors. Pull stations are the 278 series. My middle school was a brick building built in 1966, and had a fairly recent Notifier NFS320 panel with fsp851 smokes, bg12 pull stations, and Spectralert advance white ceiling mount horn strobes. The building has no sprinklers! My current (high) school is another old historic wood frame structure from 1902, the oldest building in our school district, and an addition and sprinklers were added in 2015. The panel is an EST3 and uses the genesis series EG1-HDVM white horn strobes. the current siga smokes, and the 278 series pulls
56:58 ah as always at my high school there are the notifier bells everywhere but there is always the odd outside mircom bell that sounds just like that.
53:20 how loud are the bells in the gym i always had a fear of the bells ringing in my school gym. I was never there when it happened because I didn’t have gym class at that blocks
Not that loud at all they should probably have two bells for the size of the room it’s probably the quietest spot in the school if you’re far away from the bell
Our schools fire alarm system in Pickering Ontario north of finch avenue was replaced in March of 2022 i'm wondering when are you planning to system test that fire alarm
I can't speak for where you're from, but here in Minnesota its illegal to block pull stations with objects of any kind. Pull stations MUST be accessible at all times. I hope you said something to the school.
Wouldn't make a difference as it is zoned the same way as the sprinkler system anyways there is more than one flow switch in a building like this it's broken up into zones
Maybe I’ve never seen them in Canada though i’m thinking it was still Edward‘s as there were those old Edwards durabells and pull stations but I’m not sure what they had out in the 1960s
The siren is for the security intrusion alarm system they are very loud learned that the hard way and the lights are just showing up weird on camera they don’t actually do that
I would not be able to do good at school at all if there was some day fire alarm testing planned may be I just went home right after I founded out there is gonna be fire alarm testing but I hope no fire alarm testing today
@@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440 Of course the school has an annunciator that wouldn’t be legal if it didn’t I just don’t get what you’re saying about old systems not having them
Let me say, as much as the bells sound amazing! I have to say that this is probably the worst system ever, also like the way it is setup as well, it's terrible!
To be honest... for a stupid piece of garbage system like this, I think the best way to silence the system if it goes into alarm is to smash the panel with a sludge hammer 🤣🤣🤣
