You have inspired me to become a fire alarm inspector! going to the marshal's office Tuesday to talk about job shadowing as I'm in my junior year, keep doing what you're doing man!
one time a fire drill at my school went wrong. none of the alarms on the second floor went off, then i think at some point, that changed into those alarm WOULDNT turn off. we stayed outside for like 30 minutes while someone got a part. another time an HVAC system triggered a false alarm. the evacuation went well.
Dude my school had bells, i never seen them but theres remains of them. Sadly they have mircom remote horns now. The FHS-340 i think. Theres 2 bells tho but idk if theyre hooked up i never heard them. And theres a mircom FHS-340R horn strobe outside the boys bathroom. The pulls are mircom MS401
Had a suprise fire drill yesterday. I worked on my schools system which is a 4100U smartsync truealert system which is also tied into the PA system which sounds a 60bpm bloop tone when the system activates. Best yet, i meeting the installers and county maintenance office to demonstrate a 4007es demo board to them. The purpose of that is to try and secure the panel and appliances when the system inevitably gets replaced which may be soon based on the condition of the system which has actually been reliable and a great system up until around now to where its on its last legs. I’m gonna restore the parts when i get them and make a 4100U/ES series on my channel depending on if and when I upgrade the cpu card.
I’m wondering, how strict is the fire code in your part of Canada? At most of the buildings you have done work on, they have a dated edwards system with bells and you replace them with a notifier system. What is interesting to me is that over in the US most of the older buildings I’ve seen have completely different systems from one another and from my experience you have a better chance finding mechanical horns then bells except for the new constructions which most likely use fire lite or notifier.
Great vid. Today I helped do the fire drill at my school. We first tried the drill button, but for some reason the DVC didn’t want to start the message. So we ended up pulling it, and putting the system into alarm. There must have been a breakdown in communication somewhere between us, SEI(the monitoring company), and the FD, because we had a fire truck show up. Although I think that only the admin, engineering, and I knew about the drill today.
@@nics-systems-electric honestly idk. Evidently that day they also pulled out our old Telecenter ICS, which had been replaced with a Telecenter U at the beginning of the year. However, when they pulled out the old unit, they somehow disconnected the burg panel. SEI had to come yesterday (12/5/22) at 3 in the morning to come reconnect the phone line to the DMP panel. So yeah. Also when I talked to our building engineer yesterday, he said that he wasn’t aware that we were doing a drill on Friday, which is weird because the VP that I did the drill with said that he let at least 2 people on the janitorial staff know that we were going to do a drill.
@@erikmorozov1740 because you have a perfectly functional fire alarm system where the only discrepancy is one device listing which is already arguably in a gray area of that listing
@@nics-systems-electric If the weather conditions are bad like say it's rainy, snowy, very hot or very cold effects may affect the device's ability to function
@@erikmorozov1740 yes the outdoor devices have a better weather rating this one isn't a huge problem because it's covered so it will not be rained or snowed on so basically just the temperature rating that could be an issue
I don't know why, but for some reason the round windows on the doors make me uncomfortable. 🤣🤣
Omg same. The school is in Canada. At my school in America I’m used to the rectangle glass panel on the door lol
Very nice how most of the schools in your district have notifier, all the schools here have bad Edwards systems and they always have issues
That is the plan to switch to all notifier eventually
@@nics-systems-electric What do you think would be the last Non-Notifier system that will be replaced
@@nics-systems-electric my school needs to get rid of the Edwards est system.
You have inspired me to become a fire alarm inspector! going to the marshal's office Tuesday to talk about job shadowing as I'm in my junior year, keep doing what you're doing man!
They never announced it they just go off and that makes me so scared
Are those advances those types of alarms are in my school
Wow you are lucky, cuz it has a very beautiful view!
it is a nice area for sure
Nice test keep up the work
Nice. When you do the school fire drills do the systems get put on test prior to the drills
We let the monitoring company know a few minutes before we activate system
Wow! Keep up the awesome content! BTW, how old r u? Just curious. U don’t have to answer
16
@@nics-systems-electric WoW!
The thumbnail that looks like are fire alarm control panel facp
one time a fire drill at my school went wrong. none of the alarms on the second floor went off, then i think at some point, that changed into those alarm WOULDNT turn off. we stayed outside for like 30 minutes while someone got a part.
another time an HVAC system triggered a false alarm. the evacuation went well.
Hey nic I'm watching your new video you made I'm so exited
Dude my school had bells, i never seen them but theres remains of them. Sadly they have mircom remote horns now. The FHS-340 i think. Theres 2 bells tho but idk if theyre hooked up i never heard them. And theres a mircom FHS-340R horn strobe outside the boys bathroom. The pulls are mircom MS401
I do prefer bells over horn/strobes for sure
hey nick cool videos and you know your stuff about fire alrms
Had a suprise fire drill yesterday. I worked on my schools system which is a 4100U smartsync truealert system which is also tied into the PA system which sounds a 60bpm bloop tone when the system activates. Best yet, i meeting the installers and county maintenance office to demonstrate a 4007es demo board to them. The purpose of that is to try and secure the panel and appliances when the system inevitably gets replaced which may be soon based on the condition of the system which has actually been reliable and a great system up until around now to where its on its last legs. I’m gonna restore the parts when i get them and make a 4100U/ES series on my channel depending on if and when I upgrade the cpu card.
Sounds pretty cool
That is cool how there is a mix of SpectrAlert Advance and L Series alarms. Very Cool!
Only advances for the strobe only devices all other horn strobes are L-series
I’m wondering, how strict is the fire code in your part of Canada? At most of the buildings you have done work on, they have a dated edwards system with bells and you replace them with a notifier system. What is interesting to me is that over in the US most of the older buildings I’ve seen have completely different systems from one another and from my experience you have a better chance finding mechanical horns then bells except for the new constructions which most likely use fire lite or notifier.
Mechanichal horns were almost never used in Canada to my understanding. The complete oppisite in the U.S
That's nice
Want to know something funny? I know this on firelite panels, I got those est genesis horn strobes to sync on system sensor sync lol
Yes they do
why does the panel goes into trouble after it resets thats one of the annoying things about this panel and also great video!
Fairly normal for addressable just until it is done initializing the SLC
Great vid. Today I helped do the fire drill at my school. We first tried the drill button, but for some reason the DVC didn’t want to start the message. So we ended up pulling it, and putting the system into alarm. There must have been a breakdown in communication somewhere between us, SEI(the monitoring company), and the FD, because we had a fire truck show up. Although I think that only the admin, engineering, and I knew about the drill today.
are you sure they remembered to call?
@@nics-systems-electric honestly idk. Evidently that day they also pulled out our old Telecenter ICS, which had been replaced with a Telecenter U at the beginning of the year. However, when they pulled out the old unit, they somehow disconnected the burg panel. SEI had to come yesterday (12/5/22) at 3 in the morning to come reconnect the phone line to the DMP panel. So yeah. Also when I talked to our building engineer yesterday, he said that he wasn’t aware that we were doing a drill on Friday, which is weird because the VP that I did the drill with said that he let at least 2 people on the janitorial staff know that we were going to do a drill.
Nice
#whatafirealarmfail P2RLA is outside
I personally would not consider that a fail
@@nics-systems-electric Why?
@@erikmorozov1740 because you have a perfectly functional fire alarm system where the only discrepancy is one device listing which is already arguably in a gray area of that listing
@@nics-systems-electric If the weather conditions are bad like say it's rainy, snowy, very hot or very cold effects may affect the device's ability to function
@@erikmorozov1740 yes the outdoor devices have a better weather rating this one isn't a huge problem because it's covered so it will not be rained or snowed on so basically just the temperature rating that could be an issue
if the bells were louder why move to harsh sounding sounders
Because when we replace the system notification devices also get replaced to one's compatible with the fire alarm panel
I hte tht sound
Don't watch this video
Yah duh