My high school had quite a unique combination as well. Wheelock 7002Ts in the original wing and a mix of SpectrAlert Classic and Advances in the renovated wings (one in the late 90s, one in the early 2010s, obviously). One of the quietest NAs, combined with two of the loudest. When in the rennovated wings, all you could hear were the SpectrAlerts, and when in the original wing all you could hear were... still the SpectrAlerts! 😂 But seriously, you'd have the be like in the middle of the original wing (between the renovated wings on either side) before you could really hear the 7002Ts. I remember it was always cool to have a fire drill when in the original wing, cause you would get to hear the coolest sound in fire alarms. 😁 But damn, I'll never stop being surprised by just how quiet they are. Especially for electromechanical horns. The original panel was a FireLite Sensiscan 2000 (seen in the main office, now the in-wall flush-mounted case remains filled with monitor modules), and the new panel is an MS-9200, surface-mounted right next to it. In the foyer you can still see the old Sensiscan annunciator, mounted oddly high in the wall. The pull stations are an odd bit. In the original wing there are Simplex chevrons. Some of which had been replaced with 270-SPOs. And in the renovated wings there are BG-9s. These makes me think either there was a Simplex system in the building, or the contractor just had a surplus or something. Really weird to see on an otherwise completely Firelite system. There are very few smoke detectors, mostly just Chemtronics heat detectors, from what I can remember. Where there were smokes, they were the Firelite/SystemSensor addressable ones. (Thinking about it now, they also could have just been heat detectors, replacing the old Chemtronics ones, since they look identical to the smokes... probably were)
I remember my old middle school’s system. It was a GE EST3 system which never really worked very well. The system would always have numerous problems ranging from random troubles to frequent false alarms. Now I do have reason to suspect that user error is to blame. EST systems don’t act up like this unless they aren’t serviced properly which there was plenty of evidence suggesting this was the case. For starters, the way that the county fixes things is they put out fires as they come up. Basically, they only fix things when they are 100% broken and usually they try to do it themselves, especially if it’s a supposedly simple fix like a pull station or smoke detector replacement. Second thing is, this system wasn’t the only system which would have false alarm issues. My old high school was the same way and the causes were identical: dirty sensors. In fact, some of the troubles on both systems would be maintenance troubles where the system would see that a smoke sensor needed cleaning. Final thing is that the system was most likely not installed properly or was heavily messed around with. I got the chance to take apart some of the devices for a relocation during a service call I was part of and the wiring job was interesting to say the least. Lots of devices were also addressed in non-logical ways (ie. M1-37 would be next to M1-24). One last quick thing to note: Lots of the original install work was done by other companies than the one I work for and that’s proven by the fact there’s a couple of oddball systems like Fire-Lite and Gamewell-FCI when most of the county is Simplex and EST. We have experienced EST techs that do things the correct way and those systems they work on and install work perfectly fine.
Our middle system is probably my favorite system I've ever heard. We had ADA MASSes set to slow whoop and they would get out of sync and that was just fascinating on multiple levels. The 2 elementary schools I went to previously had trualerts and I just hate the sound of those devices. It was strange going from hating to liking fire alarm systems over the course of 3 months but I am looking forward to recreating that system. It's also annoying that nobody wants to get rid of ADA MASSes and when they do; it's crazy expensive. I'm going to need 4 of them in order for it to sound good.
Ughhhh, I remember when my elementary school was brand new, and every classroom had a strobe, except my 3rd grade classroom, which had a frickin horn/strobe. That building I think has a NFS2-640, and it has SpectrAlert Advances. Now I'm in High school and that building has a NFS2-3030 with SpectrAlert Advances. That system was redone in 2012 when an addition was put up, I think the original system might have been a Simplex. The building was built in 1972, and the addition like I said was put up in 2012.
@@IanGSully See for me when I was in elementary and middle school, I had to close my ears for the sounding of the siren over the PA system. They would play a siren over the speakers while the actual fire alarms sounded their horns in the hallways. Some classrooms only had fire strobes while some didn't have any notification devices in the room.
My high school had a fun setup too. Wheelock MTs, combination of code 3, continuous, and a slow march time. Plus, the alarms outside would do a continuous sound before the rest joined in, for some reason.
My elementary school was like 4 years before temporal 3 was required and had MASSes on Slow Whoop… seems like it was either slow whoop or temporal 3 classics in the late 90’s/early 2000’s
I had to rewatch the video to make sure there wasn’t an accidental face reveal based on the comment about your eyes… I thought I had blinded you with my appearance 🤣
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My high school had quite a unique combination as well.
Wheelock 7002Ts in the original wing and a mix of SpectrAlert Classic and Advances in the renovated wings (one in the late 90s, one in the early 2010s, obviously).
One of the quietest NAs, combined with two of the loudest. When in the rennovated wings, all you could hear were the SpectrAlerts,
and when in the original wing all you could hear were... still the SpectrAlerts! 😂 But seriously, you'd have the be like in the middle of the original wing (between the renovated wings on either side) before you could really hear the 7002Ts.
I remember it was always cool to have a fire drill when in the original wing, cause you would get to hear the coolest sound in fire alarms. 😁
But damn, I'll never stop being surprised by just how quiet they are. Especially for electromechanical horns.
The original panel was a FireLite Sensiscan 2000 (seen in the main office, now the in-wall flush-mounted case remains filled with monitor modules),
and the new panel is an MS-9200, surface-mounted right next to it. In the foyer you can still see the old Sensiscan annunciator, mounted oddly high in the wall.
The pull stations are an odd bit. In the original wing there are Simplex chevrons. Some of which had been replaced with 270-SPOs. And in the renovated wings there are BG-9s.
These makes me think either there was a Simplex system in the building, or the contractor just had a surplus or something. Really weird to see on an otherwise completely Firelite system.
There are very few smoke detectors, mostly just Chemtronics heat detectors, from what I can remember. Where there were smokes, they were the Firelite/SystemSensor addressable ones. (Thinking about it now, they also could have just been heat detectors, replacing the old Chemtronics ones, since they look identical to the smokes... probably were)
That's quite the system, I'd like to experience that!
I remember my old middle school’s system. It was a GE EST3 system which never really worked very well. The system would always have numerous problems ranging from random troubles to frequent false alarms. Now I do have reason to suspect that user error is to blame. EST systems don’t act up like this unless they aren’t serviced properly which there was plenty of evidence suggesting this was the case. For starters, the way that the county fixes things is they put out fires as they come up. Basically, they only fix things when they are 100% broken and usually they try to do it themselves, especially if it’s a supposedly simple fix like a pull station or smoke detector replacement. Second thing is, this system wasn’t the only system which would have false alarm issues. My old high school was the same way and the causes were identical: dirty sensors. In fact, some of the troubles on both systems would be maintenance troubles where the system would see that a smoke sensor needed cleaning. Final thing is that the system was most likely not installed properly or was heavily messed around with. I got the chance to take apart some of the devices for a relocation during a service call I was part of and the wiring job was interesting to say the least. Lots of devices were also addressed in non-logical ways (ie. M1-37 would be next to M1-24). One last quick thing to note: Lots of the original install work was done by other companies than the one I work for and that’s proven by the fact there’s a couple of oddball systems like Fire-Lite and Gamewell-FCI when most of the county is Simplex and EST. We have experienced EST techs that do things the correct way and those systems they work on and install work perfectly fine.
Our middle system is probably my favorite system I've ever heard. We had ADA MASSes set to slow whoop and they would get out of sync and that was just fascinating on multiple levels. The 2 elementary schools I went to previously had trualerts and I just hate the sound of those devices. It was strange going from hating to liking fire alarm systems over the course of 3 months but I am looking forward to recreating that system. It's also annoying that nobody wants to get rid of ADA MASSes and when they do; it's crazy expensive. I'm going to need 4 of them in order for it to sound good.
Ughhhh, I remember when my elementary school was brand new, and every classroom had a strobe, except my 3rd grade classroom, which had a frickin horn/strobe. That building I think has a NFS2-640, and it has SpectrAlert Advances. Now I'm in High school and that building has a NFS2-3030 with SpectrAlert Advances. That system was redone in 2012 when an addition was put up, I think the original system might have been a Simplex. The building was built in 1972, and the addition like I said was put up in 2012.
I bet you had to close your ears in your 3rd grade classroom whenever you knew a fire drill was about to happen.
@@TheOriginalR2007 You bet!!!
@@IanGSully See for me when I was in elementary and middle school, I had to close my ears for the sounding of the siren over the PA system. They would play a siren over the speakers while the actual fire alarms sounded their horns in the hallways. Some classrooms only had fire strobes while some didn't have any notification devices in the room.
My high school had a fun setup too. Wheelock MTs, combination of code 3, continuous, and a slow march time. Plus, the alarms outside would do a continuous sound before the rest joined in, for some reason.
That's a pretty common setup. It worked well though
We has MT’s on continuous & SpectrAlert Classics on Temp 3, what a time to be alive in the early & mid 2000’s…
My elementary school was like 4 years before temporal 3 was required and had MASSes on Slow Whoop… seems like it was either slow whoop or temporal 3 classics in the late 90’s/early 2000’s
it has been quite a while since you've posted a "system test video!"
MY EYES ❌
MY EARS✅
I had to rewatch the video to make sure there wasn’t an accidental face reveal based on the comment about your eyes… I thought I had blinded you with my appearance 🤣
MY EARS
Literally me after every fire drill …