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I'd be lucky if to even find one in here. Im serious. I've never seen a fire alarm station in this entire warehouse. Instead, I'd have to run around yelling fire until someone radios it in. L amazon safety
The warehouse I work at (a shipping company, not Amazon) has a fully working fire alarm system, but half of the pull stations and fire extinguishers are behind garbage cans, pallets, etc
And the manager gave that key to an employee that day (instead of the actual store key), trusting them to lock up the store for their first time that night.
@@PredictableEnigma I don't think most people are gonna lift the cover anyway, the space is almost big enough for two fingers to slip through, I imagine it's not that hard to activate it without caring about the cover at all
1:58 as a curious 7 year old, i pulled the cover off of a fire alarm at the local grocery store. i was so confused when an alarm went off even before i had pulled the lever.
My grade school had fire extinguishers in the halls, in glass fronted boxes with a handle to shatter the glass. It was tempered, so no big shards, which we found out when a girl in my class (7th or 8th grade, like 12 to 14 years old) decided to see what the pull to break handle did. There was no alarm, but the sudden sound of glass breaking and the tiny cubes raining down.
This feels like something out of a movie where the increasingly exasperated school principal keeps adding components to keep kids from pulling the fire alarm until the day of the talent show when the curtains catch fire and nobody can actually send the alarm and the whole school burns down
We had those alarmed stoppers over the fire alarms at my high school in the UK. They were mainly to stop people just pulling the alarms because you're bored and they just there asking to be pulled. People would instead just quickly open the stopper just a crack so it'd squeal really loud and annoy the teachers. Used to be a bit of a game to see how many stoppers you could set off in a row before someone got angry enough to come and to investigate.
In the US the threat of a pretty hefty fine is enough of a deterrent (from what I heard it's uk to $2000 and it covers the resources the fire department needs)
Gee I sure am glad physical disabilities and injuries don't exist and everyone has the dexterity to to complete a rubix cube before activating the fire alarm
Technically u can put the whole contraption in a fire extinguisher cabinet with break glass and a handle to open the cabinet, then it would be a 7 action pull station 😂!
Perfect alarm for members in congress that accidentally pull alarms. On the serious side, being a retired electrical contractor, I found this very interesting. Most of my work was residential but I still was involved in commercial. Thank you.
I love how my recommends have gone from "wanna see a pull station collection?" to "wanna see how impractical we can make a pull station?" Paying attention to the background that makes up our everyday lives is something that gives me so much entertainment and joy. A pull station is not something we interact with in a day-to-day circumstance, and here we are watching someone homologate one with every interference device on the market. Haha!
You've made something quite remarkable, this video. It is an invaluable tool for teaching industrial engineering concepts, damn near every course I've taken could use this in some form. The components are great ideas on their own, but when slammed together without proper harmonization of the system it leads to horrific consequences, or at least reflects poorly on those that let it manifest. I hope that you will continue on this path as you demonstrate potential to enact great progress. However, you must hold fast to the passion and zeal that led you this far. People hate change, and people hate passion, so double-down on both and keep climbing young man!
In the UK, there's no pull handle. Instead you just break the glass. Sometimes the glass doesn't even break it just goes down, but on other call points the glass actually breaks.
Even those aren't foolproof, one fire drill in my school was literally caused by a girl knocking her hand against the wall while walking and then that one time she smacked the glass
I've seen some pull stations that have a "glitter bomb" effect when pulled. (When the lever was pulled, a green pigment powder was released. The dye wasn't easily washable and would permanently stain fabrics) If there wasn't a fire emergency, it would be VERY clear who pulled the alarm
@@fsendventdsure, but i assume they would only bother investing in those sort of fire alarms if false alarms were a common issue. My school would have false alarms pretty much weekly. That said, my school was rather cheap about repairs. When one of the buildings were damage, they simply fenced off the area. No work to fix it was done until i had graduated, my sister entered and graduated, and then they got around to it once the youngest of us was there.
One time when I was in the 1st grade (2006-07) they had the clear plastic alarm covers on all of the fire alarms and the teacher told us to line up on the hall way and the kids were playing with me and my head lifted the plastic cover off and the alarm siren started to go off LOUDLY and the teacher didn't want to believe that it was an accident. I remember I got in soo much trouble from that. After that day I didn't dare get close to one of those alarms again.
I work with a medical proton beam, and we have an emergency stop behind one of those stoppers. We are taught that it is an absolute last resort compared to every other method of stopping the beam due to the damage that it causes, so I almost feel like we need to adopt your system, lol.
This video reminds me of the Fire Alarms we had at my old high school. If you used it it'd spray you with an invisible ink so the school could quickly identify any prankster trying to get out of class. Plus they tended to have camera's pointed at each alarm.
It says so much about humanity that something that is supposed to be used quickly and easily in case of an emergency needs this level of deterence from being played with 😂
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did the glass just get pushed out when you hit it? because I thought I heard just a thwack, not a break, ad then it sounded like it hit the floor and broke 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude this channel is amazing, never thought I’d be interested in fire alarms but here I am. Great video, I subscribed almost immediately the video had me hooked.
Funniest thing is, in my time in school the most surefire way to get fire alarms to go off was having wood shop class going. All the sanders going would put out enough dust to trigger the smoke detectors and I remember one spring we had a fire alarm going off every hour as a different class would come in and start sanding.
Now this will ENSURE nobody falsely pulls a fire alarm ever again because the stopper would make the siren sound and then it would take even longer to pull the alarm, so people there have more time to find who did it, for example in schools if someone pulled it in the hallways. This should be used in all schools imo, except for the office so if there was an actual fire, someone could easily go pull it in the office because nobody would have the guts to try to pull the alarm in the office with like 2+ secretaries in there with them
In germany fire alarms are dual action fire alarms. There is basically a black button behind a thin glass window which you would need to smash in order to press the button
Funny youtube sent me your video. A week ago, someone let someone else into my apartment building who didnt live there. They pulled the first 2 fire stations they saw, and ran away. It was 330am. I should show managent your video.
The Resident Evil edition of that would be to find a themed key to unlock each step, but each key is stored/hidden in a separate location involving puzzles of varying difficulties to solve.
Hey, what about the Potter T-bar pull station that is more like a dual action pull station, when it has “lift and pull” cover on it, and while the piece of glass is on the single action T-bar pull station, behind the “lift and pull” cover when it’s on the pull station, so it can really make it like a 5 action fire alarm pull station.
Can we install these in congress? Keep certain legislators from pulling it to disrupt proceedings. Worst case, congress burns down and nothing of value is lost?
you could make this a lot more annoying by just swapping out the pull station entirely and replacing it with something like the FCI MS-2. while this mean there's no more glass, i think the fact that that pull station is more difficult to pull by design makes up for it. plus, you could add glass breaking back in by putting a fire extinguisher case over the entire thing or something like that
I have some of the “stoppers” at my work for our students in the gym/basketball court, we have four stations in that court, as we have four doors, two sets of doubles that lead to the hallway and two that lead to the boys and girls lockers on either side of the stage. Occasionally our Dean or me gets notified when the stopper goes off and it’s always because a ball or a student bumped into it, they’re too sensitive in my opinion.
I believe that some of those covers with built in alarms can auto activate the alarm system if it isn't closed quickly enough, since I think a few fire alarms have been set off in that manner over the years at my various schools. This could be false though, since I've never witnessed an open cover auto activating the alarm system, though maybe I'll look at a cover and see if there are any wires connecting into the wall and or pull station.
the wire cage or plastic cage is prob good to have to avoid any damage or "accidently" pulls. the glass feels like its adding a small element of hazard to someone. like if it got pulled and some one bare foot stepped on the glass, and now has a hard time escaping because of a cut foot.
You can cut the wire going to the device, and then two actions are added at once: twist the bare wires + and - separately. And if the system is not digital, you can cut both the input and output wires, and then the system will work in 9 steps.
Now put the glass-breaking hammer in a similar assembly on the other side of the room. Maybe tie it down with a bike lock somewhere whose code is written on a whiteboard nearby. Ideally we could also work a captcha into this process somewhere.
Considering the hammer to break the glass isn't included since the glass pane was self built how about habing the hammer locked behind it's own several step method of retrieving it adding further complexity.
I have this vivid memory from when I was in elementary school watching 2 kids mess around daring each other to pull it while they were waiting in line for lunch. They kept bumping into it on purpose and then the pull lever dropped out and activated on its own. The whole school evacuated and then I had to go give my witness statement to the principal 😓
Next you need to mount it on a giant mousetrap, then surround the trap with barbed wired, then attach a shock fence unit to the wire. Finally have a TV in the room next to the alarm, and when someone runs up to it have a recording of a puppet give them instructions on how to pull the alarm. 😂
I feel like I wouldn't know what to do with the cage in an emergency cause this is, I think, the first time I've seen one. The cage also isn't labeled anywhere how to open it.
Hi fire alarm dude - I ran into a fire alarm the other day that had a black “Lift then Pull Handle” cover - rather than the “Push” shown in the video. Would this constitute a 6th action?
Needs more, a cover that requires a combination lock, one that makes you select pictures to prove you’re a human. One that makes you solve a math problem. One where you need to collect 5 hidden gems from around the building and place them into slots in the correct order like a resident evil puzzle then an ID scanner. Then have to write a 3000 word essay about why you need to activate the alarm and potential damage the fire could result in, email it to a special alarm management technician for grading and if passed be allowed to then do the last 5 actions in the video to activate the alarm.
The true test of whether or not you want to activate the alarm is when all the building's pulls are wired in series. Then it becomes a fun scavenger hunt to find all the stations.
How are you even meant to break the glass in the first place, without the mallet? Like for the cages with the fire extinguishers. I’m not gonna try to break glass with my fist, and I don’t have a hammer nearby.
I don't think I've ever seen the cage mounted with the hinge at the top before; always hinge at the bottom with the cage clipped into place at the top. Then again, I'm pretty sure all the ones I've ever seen behind a cage had a glass breaker, so letting the cage fall out of the way would make swinging the hammer easier.
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Very funny 😂😂. But also could be very deadly in a real-life emergency situation 😵
Yes, I am.
Yes, I am.
Yes, I am.
Yes, I am.
No, actually I'm not.
I don't know if I'm sure, let me go check if the fire is actually burning things
*DID YOU READ ALL FIVE COPIES OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO PULLING TO THE ALARM?*
bro just pushed forward but not down
5:35 if youre panicking in a fire emergency, it'll probably be 10 times more difficult than it is lol
id just stomp on it and itl open faster
@@LidLockTV how? its on the wall
@@Skibidigokyllyourself Kick the wall
I probably won't even know you could open the wire guard
So, 1 minute and 20 seconds. That’s really not a long time, even in a fire
POV: you have SEVERE anxiety about false fire alarm activations
Well I get these things being installed in schools
Pick 1 thing and obsess over it your whole life!
And all of that can be solved easily by just making a fire alarm that catches firen when activated - now it's no longer a false alarm.
POV, you go to school at a zoo.
dog i was a maintenance tech for a middle school, this isn't enough
this feels like something you would see in an amazon warehouse
I'd be lucky if to even find one in here. Im serious. I've never seen a fire alarm station in this entire warehouse. Instead, I'd have to run around yelling fire until someone radios it in. L amazon safety
The warehouse I work at (a shipping company, not Amazon) has a fully working fire alarm system, but half of the pull stations and fire extinguishers are behind garbage cans, pallets, etc
@@Just_Joshing024my location has an alarm for the hydrogen fuel cells in case they start to leak…
@@AJ-Palermo report that. not to supervisors, to the fire marshall. after a surprise inspection, every manager and supervisor is getting chewed out.
Nah, Amazon would glue it shut too
This.. this is comical. Now it needs to be a key version, where you ask the manager for it.
And the manager gave that key to an employee that day (instead of the actual store key), trusting them to lock up the store for their first time that night.
Just use 27 combination locks.
"In case of fire, solve sudoku"
There should be a nearby glass hammer. Also behind glass.
@@Scanlaid THAT is the best idea.
And a smoke detector so you need some fire by it to prove there is a fire
I honestly had no idea you could lift up those cages. As a child, I always imagined I would need to stick my fingers through it to activate the alarm
Genuinely a major engineering flaw, why you need to ask lots of people about these things I suppose.
And all it would take is a label at the bottom saying "LIFT COVER"
@@PredictableEnigma I don't think most people are gonna lift the cover anyway, the space is almost big enough for two fingers to slip through, I imagine it's not that hard to activate it without caring about the cover at all
I’ve just learned about this from the video as well, thought toes cages were welded XD
“As a child” sure lol
this is the captcha of fire alarms
the reCaptcha of all fire alarms
@@nanettepaschall3006the hcaptcha
“You wanna pull this fire alarm? Do this Captcha to prove you’re not a robot”
Derg
You want to pull this fire alarm? SELECT ALL THE STAIRS
1:58 as a curious 7 year old, i pulled the cover off of a fire alarm at the local grocery store. i was so confused when an alarm went off even before i had pulled the lever.
Me too but as a freshman in high school. I was dumb.
I did this in 5th grade in a full cafeteria, was very embarrassed
i did this during gym class, nearly gave myself a heart attack, and then i was immediately met with the embarrassment of activating an alarm
My grade school had fire extinguishers in the halls, in glass fronted boxes with a handle to shatter the glass. It was tempered, so no big shards, which we found out when a girl in my class (7th or 8th grade, like 12 to 14 years old) decided to see what the pull to break handle did. There was no alarm, but the sudden sound of glass breaking and the tiny cubes raining down.
Me also
This feels like something out of a movie where the increasingly exasperated school principal keeps adding components to keep kids from pulling the fire alarm until the day of the talent show when the curtains catch fire and nobody can actually send the alarm and the whole school burns down
“You better not have a fire emergency here” lookin activation device
We had those alarmed stoppers over the fire alarms at my high school in the UK. They were mainly to stop people just pulling the alarms because you're bored and they just there asking to be pulled. People would instead just quickly open the stopper just a crack so it'd squeal really loud and annoy the teachers. Used to be a bit of a game to see how many stoppers you could set off in a row before someone got angry enough to come and to investigate.
Lol
Nice essay
@@thompsbj1 can you even read
In the US the threat of a pretty hefty fine is enough of a deterrent (from what I heard it's uk to $2000 and it covers the resources the fire department needs)
@@jakerussell135 i think I what he was talking about is just lifing the cover to send the alarm that a alarm might be pulled
A sixth and seventh action could be an out-of-order note inside to call building management in case of fire at x12345 using the phone on Floor 6.
Perhaps
The landlord special
Perhaps
It's actually 6 actions since you have to pull the dude who passed out 4 actions in from smoke inhalation away before you can complete the last action
lmao
I laughed so hard when the glass just popped off and broke when it hit the ground.
You could add a random curtain, that would add an action
Sure, It might break code, but the curtain was very needed to stop the wall from yellowing
Gee I sure am glad physical disabilities and injuries don't exist and everyone has the dexterity to to complete a rubix cube before activating the fire alarm
skill issue
“Skill issue” mfs when their bodies are horrifically burnt and they only have 1 usable hand:
@@9volt65 skill issue
@@9volt65 I'd feet
@@9volt65just stay away from the fire
Technically u can put the whole contraption in a fire extinguisher cabinet with break glass and a handle to open the cabinet, then it would be a 7 action pull station 😂!
Put it behind the fire extinguisher so you have to remove it to get to the pull station 😂
@@mikeschulte4271 he should have another alarm with more steps and a small extinguisher with just as many 😭
Perfect alarm for members in congress that accidentally pull alarms.
On the serious side, being a retired electrical contractor, I found this very interesting. Most of my work was residential but I still was involved in commercial.
Thank you.
Finally, someone actually did it. I’ve been wanting to see a fire alarm like this for a long time.
He breaks the glass. And it was the most satisfying sound and moment of my life. A pleasure to have experienced this at 3:35 AM. Thank you sir.
5- action? Rookie numbers right there. (I don't know how to do more)
Get a dual action push pull simplex Tbar, add glass to it, add a lift guard (like the ones at that school) to it, then add a cage and the stopper.
Yo bro you should add a ceiling fire alarm to your garage just for fun
Put one of those exit sign cages that screw into the wall over it
@@ASAPMEXICANBOI117 at least a remote strobe. audible device might be a bit loud.
You have to assemble the pull yourself, and do the wiring😂
I love how my recommends have gone from "wanna see a pull station collection?" to "wanna see how impractical we can make a pull station?"
Paying attention to the background that makes up our everyday lives is something that gives me so much entertainment and joy. A pull station is not something we interact with in a day-to-day circumstance, and here we are watching someone homologate one with every interference device on the market. Haha!
Activate the pull station?
Are you sure?
Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this?
Is this really what you want?
Fine.
*BEEEEEEE*
You've made something quite remarkable, this video. It is an invaluable tool for teaching industrial engineering concepts, damn near every course I've taken could use this in some form. The components are great ideas on their own, but when slammed together without proper harmonization of the system it leads to horrific consequences, or at least reflects poorly on those that let it manifest. I hope that you will continue on this path as you demonstrate potential to enact great progress. However, you must hold fast to the passion and zeal that led you this far. People hate change, and people hate passion, so double-down on both and keep climbing young man!
This is going to help my school SO MUCH! Kids ALWAYS pull the fire alarm falsely and we literally have more false alarms than actual drills.
In the UK, there's no pull handle. Instead you just break the glass.
Sometimes the glass doesn't even break it just goes down, but on other call points the glass actually breaks.
Most of them are plastic now.
Yeah it just goes (crack)
Even those aren't foolproof, one fire drill in my school was literally caused by a girl knocking her hand against the wall while walking and then that one time she smacked the glass
I've seen some pull stations that have a "glitter bomb" effect when pulled.
(When the lever was pulled, a green pigment powder was released. The dye wasn't easily washable and would permanently stain fabrics)
If there wasn't a fire emergency, it would be VERY clear who pulled the alarm
And if it was an emergency, you can identify the hero
okay but imagine if there was a fire, like wouldn't it make your day just that much worse if it also ruined your favorite shirt
@@fsendventdsure, but i assume they would only bother investing in those sort of fire alarms if false alarms were a common issue. My school would have false alarms pretty much weekly. That said, my school was rather cheap about repairs. When one of the buildings were damage, they simply fenced off the area. No work to fix it was done until i had graduated, my sister entered and graduated, and then they got around to it once the youngest of us was there.
Thats a pretty stupid feature tbh. I wouldnt feel bad about shouting "theres a fire" and walking out without touching any such alarm
Use power that can come clout not easily but not to hard to ruin it
If you want to make it even harder to pull, just gorilla glue the stopper and the handle of the pull shut. 👍🏼
One time when I was in the 1st grade (2006-07) they had the clear plastic alarm covers on all of the fire alarms and the teacher told us to line up on the hall way and the kids were playing with me and my head lifted the plastic cover off and the alarm siren started to go off LOUDLY and the teacher didn't want to believe that it was an accident. I remember I got in soo much trouble from that. After that day I didn't dare get close to one of those alarms again.
I work with a medical proton beam, and we have an emergency stop behind one of those stoppers. We are taught that it is an absolute last resort compared to every other method of stopping the beam due to the damage that it causes, so I almost feel like we need to adopt your system, lol.
This video reminds me of the Fire Alarms we had at my old high school. If you used it it'd spray you with an invisible ink so the school could quickly identify any prankster trying to get out of class. Plus they tended to have camera's pointed at each alarm.
Ah yes, the alarm for my fire alarm so I know my fire alarm is about to alarm. Really helpful.
It says so much about humanity that something that is supposed to be used quickly and easily in case of an emergency needs this level of deterence from being played with 😂
This isn’t a legitimate installation
I've been a fire alarm tech for 10 years. This is awesome.
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0:30 1.5 action would be a more accurate descriptor.
My autistic ass watching a video about fire alarms at 5 in the morning instead of sleeping
I feel called out
Real
I just got called out 😭
Apparently I have found my people
@@Chaotic_evil_duck indeed comrade
did the glass just get pushed out when you hit it? because I thought I heard just a thwack, not a break, ad then it sounded like it hit the floor and broke 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like it
For when you absolutely want to make sure everything burns to the ground. 👏
Dude this channel is amazing, never thought I’d be interested in fire alarms but here I am. Great video, I subscribed almost immediately the video had me hooked.
Funniest thing is, in my time in school the most surefire way to get fire alarms to go off was having wood shop class going. All the sanders going would put out enough dust to trigger the smoke detectors and I remember one spring we had a fire alarm going off every hour as a different class would come in and start sanding.
So this is where all the fire alarm activators from my school went, give them back please.
Of course of all things i watch tonight i watch this but it is definitely satisfying
me when im evil
Lollll
EW FUREY!
You're so evil
A 6 action fire alarm pull station probably has a quest to go through the ring of power into Mount Doom first
This randomly popped up for me and I’m glad the content is pretty great
Now this will ENSURE nobody falsely pulls a fire alarm ever again because the stopper would make the siren sound and then it would take even longer to pull the alarm, so people there have more time to find who did it, for example in schools if someone pulled it in the hallways. This should be used in all schools imo, except for the office so if there was an actual fire, someone could easily go pull it in the office because nobody would have the guts to try to pull the alarm in the office with like 2+ secretaries in there with them
This is nothing about the question or answer. It’s just your user icon is exactly how I feel right now.
i can do that cuz idc
Firealarmdude is such a goated channel name
In germany fire alarms are dual action fire alarms. There is basically a black button behind a thin glass window which you would need to smash in order to press the button
It’s easier to self destruct the Enterprise than trigger this fire alarm.
This is more inconvenient than Helpful. It May stop false Activations, but you’d be dead from the Fire by the time you Pulled it down.
Well, some people won’t mind, as they rather have 1 or maybe 3 people dead rather then say 200
This video isn't a serious video. It says in the description "I thought it would be fun"
@ I know.
I never thought in my life that i’d ever watch a video about a fire alarm
Funny youtube sent me your video.
A week ago, someone let someone else into my apartment building who didnt live there. They pulled the first 2 fire stations they saw, and ran away. It was 330am.
I should show managent your video.
I like that you made the fire alarm pull station much more complicated.
The Resident Evil edition of that would be to find a themed key to unlock each step, but each key is stored/hidden in a separate location involving puzzles of varying difficulties to solve.
Hey, what about the Potter T-bar pull station that is more like a dual action pull station, when it has “lift and pull” cover on it, and while the piece of glass is on the single action T-bar pull station, behind the “lift and pull” cover when it’s on the pull station, so it can really make it like a 5 action fire alarm pull station.
They need these in middle and high school for all the false alarms
dumbass comment and i wont waste my time to say why
...With options to add several additional layers during exam times!
@@Skibidigokyllyourself: Then you shouldn't have wasted your time to insult its author about it for no good reason.
I love how the external plastic box has an alarm on it. "hey, everybody, someone is about to set off a fire alarm!"
Can we install these in congress? Keep certain legislators from pulling it to disrupt proceedings. Worst case, congress burns down and nothing of value is lost?
wouldnt congress buring down disrupt proceedings more lmao? i dind it funny that congress does the same thing highschoolrs do to skip exams
you could make this a lot more annoying by just swapping out the pull station entirely and replacing it with something like the FCI MS-2. while this mean there's no more glass, i think the fact that that pull station is more difficult to pull by design makes up for it. plus, you could add glass breaking back in by putting a fire extinguisher case over the entire thing or something like that
I have some of the “stoppers” at my work for our students in the gym/basketball court, we have four stations in that court, as we have four doors, two sets of doubles that lead to the hallway and two that lead to the boys and girls lockers on either side of the stage. Occasionally our Dean or me gets notified when the stopper goes off and it’s always because a ball or a student bumped into it, they’re too sensitive in my opinion.
Normal places: "Pull in case of fire."
This thing: "Die confused in case of fire and notify no one."
he made some of my most niche yet banal thoughts into a reality
I believe that some of those covers with built in alarms can auto activate the alarm system if it isn't closed quickly enough, since I think a few fire alarms have been set off in that manner over the years at my various schools. This could be false though, since I've never witnessed an open cover auto activating the alarm system, though maybe I'll look at a cover and see if there are any wires connecting into the wall and or pull station.
Me dying, horrified knowing that i only got 4 stages into the 5 stage fire alarm station before i succumbed to smoke inhalation: 💀
Fire drills have given me PTSD. Every time I see a flash or hear something similar to a fire alarm I can feel the fear in my stomach.
Also how is this the most popular video over simplex voice evac and loudest fire alarm 😭 Good job dude
ironically this is a good tutorial of how to get past these things in an actual emergency
Get a mini stopper III and put it inside the big stopper to make it 6-action
this is exactly what i was thinking
This is literally a horror-universe type of pull station, something you'd see in a game
the wire cage or plastic cage is prob good to have to avoid any damage or "accidently" pulls.
the glass feels like its adding a small element of hazard to someone. like if it got pulled and some one bare foot stepped on the glass, and now has a hard time escaping because of a cut foot.
have one of those interlocking braided metal piece puzzles that you have to do to get the hammer
Someone should pass a legislation in a state that makes it mandatory by law to have a 20-action Fire Alarm Pull station.
this belongs in every government building so that it is not mistaken for a door opener
Lol
The algorithm blessed me with this one
Idk how I got recommended this but, SICK
You can cut the wire going to the device, and then two actions are added at once: twist the bare wires + and - separately. And if the system is not digital, you can cut both the input and output wires, and then the system will work in 9 steps.
another layer of security for alarms I've found to work is putting caltrops, bear traps, and/or landmines around the alarm.
Now put the glass-breaking hammer in a similar assembly on the other side of the room. Maybe tie it down with a bike lock somewhere whose code is written on a whiteboard nearby. Ideally we could also work a captcha into this process somewhere.
Considering the hammer to break the glass isn't included since the glass pane was self built how about habing the hammer locked behind it's own several step method of retrieving it adding further complexity.
4:47 that looks cursed
love the description specifying this is not to code
Right, and somehow people still aren’t reading it
Another thing that would make it a pain in the ass would be to install a break rod, or really just anything that can mimic one.
honestly you should've tried putting one of those sti mini stoppers before the regular stopper, not sure if that is possible but yeah
There’s no chance that would have fit
I have this vivid memory from when I was in elementary school watching 2 kids mess around daring each other to pull it while they were waiting in line for lunch. They kept bumping into it on purpose and then the pull lever dropped out and activated on its own. The whole school evacuated and then I had to go give my witness statement to the principal 😓
Next you need to mount it on a giant mousetrap, then surround the trap with barbed wired, then attach a shock fence unit to the wire. Finally have a TV in the room next to the alarm, and when someone runs up to it have a recording of a puppet give them instructions on how to pull the alarm. 😂
I was thinking “what kinda guy has access to all this stuff to make something silly like this”?
then I saw the channel name and immediately understood
I feel like I wouldn't know what to do with the cage in an emergency cause this is, I think, the first time I've seen one. The cage also isn't labeled anywhere how to open it.
I'm actually starting my new position as a Fire Installer level 3 at the Simplex division of my job in a few days!
Hi fire alarm dude - I ran into a fire alarm the other day that had a black “Lift then Pull Handle” cover - rather than the “Push” shown in the video. Would this constitute a 6th action?
Yes, I’d say so
Needs more, a cover that requires a combination lock, one that makes you select pictures to prove you’re a human.
One that makes you solve a math problem.
One where you need to collect 5 hidden gems from around the building and place them into slots in the correct order like a resident evil puzzle then an ID scanner. Then have to write a 3000 word essay about why you need to activate the alarm and potential damage the fire could result in, email it to a special alarm management technician for grading and if passed be allowed to then do the last 5 actions in the video to activate the alarm.
The true test of whether or not you want to activate the alarm is when all the building's pulls are wired in series. Then it becomes a fun scavenger hunt to find all the stations.
Lol!! Never thought you would make this, amazing video
You need them to solve a captcha, or beat some sort of mini-game.
How are you even meant to break the glass in the first place, without the mallet? Like for the cages with the fire extinguishers. I’m not gonna try to break glass with my fist, and I don’t have a hammer nearby.
Usually there’s a breaker bar
Could you wire a Fire Alarm to do things such as a light switch for power functions?
Yes, they are inherently switched
What would you use to break the glass if you didn’t have the thingy in your hand?
There wouldn’t be a glass sheet in a real application
Teacher: What happened?
Student: I accidentally pulled it
1:24 Tss.
1:56 Tss.
2:23 Tss.
3:19 Tss.
3:56 Tss.
5:45 Tss.
I don't think I've ever seen the cage mounted with the hinge at the top before; always hinge at the bottom with the cage clipped into place at the top. Then again, I'm pretty sure all the ones I've ever seen behind a cage had a glass breaker, so letting the cage fall out of the way would make swinging the hammer easier.
That’s one way to do it