This brings me back to my middle school days! The exact same system - an Edwards Custom 6500 - was installed in my middle school at that time. Same pulls, same horns, same panel. That system was replaced with a DSC Maxsys system in 2005, replacing the Edwards pulls with Fire-Lite BG-12s and replacing the Edwards horns with Wheelock AS horn/strobes.
The new piezo "shreiker" horns are so high pitched that many older people with high-end hearing loss cannot hear them. These old-fashioned 60 Hz. horns are much easier to hear.
Its loud. Keep in mind that I'm recording this with my cell phone so you can hear all the frequencies of the spiral arms giving. This is a lower frequency so you can hear it throughout the building and it rattles the walWhen these type of fire alarms were installed, you didn't need as many fire horns because the frequency was so low that it would penetrate through walls all kinds of stuff. Nowadays you have to have horns not only in the hallways been rooms as well so you can get the same decibel
I feel like no one did any research. This panel is almost 40 years old at this point. Back then they used lights, not strobes. Adaptahorns always sound like that. This was not a new install.
The library in cookeville,TN had 3 of those horns in the whole place the children’s library had one the upstairs library the other 2 Edwards pulls but in 2014 it got replaced with system sensor spectralert advances one old horn remains in the children’s library but the pull was removed
How do you know it’s correctly lined up or not broken if you test it via the toggle switch. There is a wrong way to test pull stations… you need to remove the glass rod, close it back up and test the way it is intended to be used.
That building sounds like it has explosive diarrhea because those horns sound horrible those horns are definitely old it definitely reminds me of my school years when I was in school I always why they would put such loud horns in portables they were so loud that it could destroy eardrums those portables always had old horns like simplex or Edward’s or any other old horns the most popular one was old simplex horns I now miss my old school days I used to hate fire drills now I’m fascinated by these old horns the 80s and 90s were the days
If there is anything more satisfying than teraring out shitty old edwards panels and installing new notifier adressable ones...i havent found it yet. Maybe not installing edwards at all...hahaha
This brings me back to my middle school days! The exact same system - an Edwards Custom 6500 - was installed in my middle school at that time. Same pulls, same horns, same panel. That system was replaced with a DSC Maxsys system in 2005, replacing the Edwards pulls with Fire-Lite BG-12s and replacing the Edwards horns with Wheelock AS horn/strobes.
These horns are old school and I like them.
The new piezo "shreiker" horns are so high pitched that many older people with high-end hearing loss cannot hear them. These old-fashioned 60 Hz. horns are much easier to hear.
These are actually DC powered.
Those old Edwards DC Adaptahorns never sound right. :P
Its loud. Keep in mind that I'm recording this with my cell phone so you can hear all the frequencies of the spiral arms giving. This is a lower frequency so you can hear it throughout the building and it rattles the walWhen these type of fire alarms were installed, you didn't need as many fire horns because the frequency was so low that it would penetrate through walls all kinds of stuff. Nowadays you have to have horns not only in the hallways been rooms as well so you can get the same decibel
i cant hear the vid
Plus vibratone horns have more moving parts than solid state ones and thus would vibrate more
In our science lab at the acid shower we had those type of horns
*RUclips may have problems playing the audio on certain videos, this must be the one that the audio stopped working but they fixed it.*
Looks a lot like the backrooms, quite a trip
I literally thought the same
Edwards adaptahorns
these same 881D horns are still in use at my high school.
Bro casually does a fire alarm test in the backrooms
Adaptahorns are good if they are healthy but they are usually not reliable and always break down due to their cheap build quality
not cheaply made, but its the fact that those horns are well over 30+ years old
I feel like no one did any research. This panel is almost 40 years old at this point. Back then they used lights, not strobes. Adaptahorns always sound like that. This was not a new install.
The library in cookeville,TN had 3 of those horns in the whole place the children’s library had one the upstairs library the other 2 Edwards pulls but in 2014 it got replaced with system sensor spectralert advances one old horn remains in the children’s library but the pull was removed
Why does this look like a backrooms level.
FR
dame those fire alarms are louder then the ones at school
0:25 fire alarm testing in the back rooms
The horns run on 20VAC That why they're blowing up.
Maybe out dated but still works...
Why were the emergency lights off? (No power?)
Those were the fire alarm lights.
@Gb755c Edwards 881Ds. They used to be in schuminweb's middle school.
the resonators are very loose on those
Wow those things are raspy.
2:52 that horn must have some issues
Needs replacement, it just doesn't sound like what a fire alarm should since it's a continual buzz, not odd enough, too ambient.
this must be an old system
I just want horns that have different pitches. The new horns (with the exception of whoever makes the U-HNHs now) all sound the same.
oh no! they are on FWR!
Tested that pull station wrong... What if the lever is broken lol.
If the lever was broken the pull would need replaced. Also theres no way to "test it wrong"
How do you know it’s correctly lined up or not broken if you test it via the toggle switch. There is a wrong way to test pull stations… you need to remove the glass rod, close it back up and test the way it is intended to be used.
Those alarms sound like they are going to break.
Kai Bannon those are Edwards Adaptahorns, which aren’t well made and are prone to breaking. I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened.
Is that an 892-2B I hear around 3:07-3:15?
yes and I love those
Or an pre integrity
Actually a 1b
@Ben Schumin what year was your middle school built?
Where does this take place?
This kinda looks like The Backrooms
That building sounds like it has explosive diarrhea because those horns sound horrible those horns are definitely old it definitely reminds me of my school years when I was in school I always why they would put such loud horns in portables they were so loud that it could destroy eardrums those portables always had old horns like simplex or Edward’s or any other old horns the most popular one was old simplex horns I now miss my old school days I used to hate fire drills now I’m fascinated by these old horns the 80s and 90s were the days
EST 270A-SPO.
What horns are those?
old est edwards adaptahorns on a est edwards 6500 panel system
No strobes? There should be strobes.
What makes you say that?
@@armorsecsysnewer fire code
At sond good mate
It has no wallpaper
0:16 let the noise begin. They sound very weird it sounds like your in a music class with those alarms 🚨 loads of people playing instruments 🎻 🎺 🤔🙂
You make more video flre alarm
Instead of the old horns, they should put speaker strobes with voice evacuation.
the building has been torn down.....
+armorsecsys How old is that building
+Riley Bruck was about 30 years old
+armorsecsys That ain't old enough to be torn down.
+armorsecsys what happened to the devices?
Sounds like me after tacobell
When was the system installed?
@@relevanteaglealarms109 False. This would be more like 60s/80s
2:50 what the dang...
I heard a pre integrity 3:10
Sounds like an ice maker -,-
Sounds like my garbage disposal
You or u ok mate
One word “loud”
If there is anything more satisfying than teraring out shitty old edwards panels and installing new notifier adressable ones...i havent found it yet.
Maybe not installing edwards at all...hahaha
Sounds like a mess of bees....
I know you guys old old fire alarms but that sounds terrible 😫
Those are loud adapt a horns maybe it shouldn't be in a building
is anyone else not able to hear the video?