At my current job. I saw a ceiling mounted EST Genesis speaker strobe mounted on the wall through the window of the neighboring tenant. I call that “Advanced mounting skills EST Genesis edition.” What a fire alarm fail.
I have just watched this on RUclips for the first time today. Please do more of these "exit" and "fire alarm fail" videos. I miss seeing these on the Wheelove Fire Alarm and Elevator channel on RUclips.
Well I’m only going to post the fails I find and maybe some that my friend finds. As well as having to amass enough photos to make a 3 minute video. But sure there will be more
0:07 not a fail to have the key in the pull station 1:14 nothing wrong here, just annoying to remove 1:23 since the old signal isn’t in use there’s no fail for it to be painted. It’s also common to see retrofits of this style which are up to code 1:30 2903s shouldn’t be painted, but due to their low light output and lack of reflectors there’s no issue with this on the ceiling 1:53 same applies here 2:03 retrofits aren’t against code, perfectly fine
I found a few (6) fire alarm (and related) fails at my university. 1: In the second floor of the residence hall I live in, it’s a Gentex GX-90-S mini horn/strobe with the strobe broken off and set on top of the back box. One of the wires is also damaged, so no chance the strobe will flash, 2: In my residence hall in another dorm on my floor, a Gentex GX90 mini sounder is painted over completely. The one in my room appears to have been painted on the edges at one point, but someone miraculously scraped the paint off! 3: In the science and engineering building, a System Sensor SCWL strobe is falling off the ceiling in the 4th floor hallway. 4: This is an exit sign in on my floor in the residence hall, with the arrow facing the wrong way. 5: The chapel building on the campus is full of FCI-rebranded Faraday/Cerberus multi-tone horns, (the ones with the magnifier on the strobe lens) and they’re all painted white! 6: The most blatant fail is in the main student center building. It’s one of those fire doors on a track that closes like a curtain, but it has a giant 100 pound directory sign, and a tripod stand, placed in front of it. I pushed on the sign, and found that it moved with a little force, but I doubt the door would be strong enough to push it out of the way. The sign is also near a pull station, (FCI MS2) so someone might not see the pull station depending on their perspective. Fire alarm systems on our campus include mostly older FCI panels (my residence hall likely has an FCI 7200) and newer Gamewell-FCI E3 series panels, (some with voice, some with horns) with mostly System Sensor devices and some Gentex here and there. Pulls installed these days are BG12s. Older devices include Faraday 6120s and the early 90s Faraday multi tone horns, and FCI MS2 pulls. They also include Simplex LifeAlarms and 4251-20 pulls, somehow running on one of the new Gamewell-FCI E3 panels! We do have a GE EST3 voice evac in the library/study hall facility, and an unknown Simplex voice evac in a brand new on-campus apartment facility.
@@The09creeperIt’s definitely not modern enough to be a Simplex 4010es panel. Building opened in ‘87 and still has many original devices, including all the smokes and many flush mount LifeAlarm speakers. I’d put in a guess that it’s still a 2001 or 2120 panel. Also there’s another few fails in my new dorm. The basement has a broken exit sign, a few in-room smoke alarms look loose from the wall, and a speaker/strobe or two has loose screws. I’m also iffy on the placement of some of the smokes by the elevators: they’re mounted on the wall near the corner of the wall and the ceiling, and there’s a drop ceiling directly in front of them. They should not be mounted close to corners because smoke tends not to collect in those areas.
It’s possible that it’s a 2120 but you can never confirm unless the system has the really old detector that has the led on the base. Then it’s possible for the panel to be a 2001 or 2120
The one with the retrofit of the 2903 light or strobe plate isn’t technically a fail since it doesn’t affect the functionality of the alarm. Cool video though, I’d love to see more
Rating these fails based on how insane they are because I’m so bored: 0:00: 9/10 why even have one up all the way up there anyway 💀 0:06: 7/10 someone’s gonna steal that key 🔑 😭 0:12: 8/10 I have seen a lot of those before but still would give me a scare if it went off since I probably wouldn’t know it was there 😅 0:17: 9/10 I’m triggered now, whoever reset that…How were you hired?😬 0:27: 6/10 No💀 0:32: 15/10 do I even need to explain this?😭 0:37: 4/10 save the keys 🔑 0:42: 7/10 why ☹️ 0:47: 8/10 yeah that’s totally gonna help when there is a fire 😐 0:52: 10/10 someone got a little too mad 💀 0:57: 100/10 they rly gotta deal with that water damage can be rly bad 😟 1:02: 4/10 out of words 🤦🏼♀️ 1:07: 5/10 rip commander 3 😢 1:13: 6/10 ya no 😶 1:18: 9/10 oh my gosh they had one job 😡 1:23: 5/10 bruh this one is just bad-😅 1:28: 4/10 I mean is it rly that bad when u think about it 🤔 1:34: 20/10 WHY THERE 😭 1:43: 2/10 what’s wrong with it tho-🧐 1:48: 6/10 that’s gonna fall on someone’s head 😶 1:53: 2/10 ok 👍🏻 1:58: 5/10 imagine someone standing by the sign and then the fire alarm goes off and they get jumped scared by the noise cus it was hidden🤨 2:03: 4/10 why the retro…😒 2:08: 7/10 NOT AGAIN☹️ 2:13: 8/10 that’s not gonna end well 😬 2:18: 1/10 ✨shiny ✨ 2:23: 2/10 ok again 😐 2:30: 5/10 probably not a good place for that alarm..😶 2:39: 9/10 it’s either they forgot to take it off during an event or some random teens came along and put it on 😒 2:46: 5/10 ah yes I love taking the levator 😌 2:51: 3/10 it looks like it’s floating 😮 Ok I’m done bye bye😊
i was at in the game peabody on wednesday and in yhe firebesaoe stairwell i was on tue because you gonupnthat way when u olay laswr tag i found a pull station that was blocked
@@The09creeper the ones which are retrofitted, some devices which are on the ceiling, the strobe doesnt get affected, if painted, only mechanical horns get affected and sometimes speakers
@@dutchwolf2675 while some alarms like the advance and rs, the strobe has the correct output but the fire lettering is not meant to be read from the ceiling. Witch makes me still think it a fail
@@dutchwolf2675well unfortunately for you a classic horn strobe on the ceiling is a fail because the wall mounts have a strobe specifically for facing the area. If it was a remote horn there wouldn't be a problem.
1:14 1:44 Recessed mounted*
At my current job. I saw a ceiling mounted EST Genesis speaker strobe mounted on the wall through the window of the neighboring tenant. I call that “Advanced mounting skills EST Genesis edition.” What a fire alarm fail.
Those are some crazy fails!
Some of them are pretty funny
I have just watched this on RUclips for the first time today. Please do more of these "exit" and "fire alarm fail" videos. I miss seeing these on the Wheelove Fire Alarm and Elevator channel on RUclips.
Well I’m only going to post the fails I find and maybe some that my friend finds. As well as having to amass enough photos to make a 3 minute video. But sure there will be more
I once saw a commander 3 mounted entirely upside down on the wall of my school bathroom
0:07 not a fail to have the key in the pull station
1:14 nothing wrong here, just annoying to remove
1:23 since the old signal isn’t in use there’s no fail for it to be painted. It’s also common to see retrofits of this style which are up to code
1:30 2903s shouldn’t be painted, but due to their low light output and lack of reflectors there’s no issue with this on the ceiling
1:53 same applies here
2:03 retrofits aren’t against code, perfectly fine
I found a few (6) fire alarm (and related) fails at my university.
1: In the second floor of the residence hall I live in, it’s a Gentex GX-90-S mini horn/strobe with the strobe broken off and set on top of the back box. One of the wires is also damaged, so no chance the strobe will flash,
2: In my residence hall in another dorm on my floor, a Gentex GX90 mini sounder is painted over completely. The one in my room appears to have been painted on the edges at one point, but someone miraculously scraped the paint off!
3: In the science and engineering building, a System Sensor SCWL strobe is falling off the ceiling in the 4th floor hallway.
4: This is an exit sign in on my floor in the residence hall, with the arrow facing the wrong way.
5: The chapel building on the campus is full of FCI-rebranded Faraday/Cerberus multi-tone horns, (the ones with the magnifier on the strobe lens) and they’re all painted white!
6: The most blatant fail is in the main student center building. It’s one of those fire doors on a track that closes like a curtain, but it has a giant 100 pound directory sign, and a tripod stand, placed in front of it. I pushed on the sign, and found that it moved with a little force, but I doubt the door would be strong enough to push it out of the way. The sign is also near a pull station, (FCI MS2) so someone might not see the pull station depending on their perspective.
Fire alarm systems on our campus include mostly older FCI panels (my residence hall likely has an FCI 7200) and newer Gamewell-FCI E3 series panels, (some with voice, some with horns) with mostly System Sensor devices and some Gentex here and there. Pulls installed these days are BG12s. Older devices include Faraday 6120s and the early 90s Faraday multi tone horns, and FCI MS2 pulls. They also include Simplex LifeAlarms and 4251-20 pulls, somehow running on one of the new Gamewell-FCI E3 panels! We do have a GE EST3 voice evac in the library/study hall facility, and an unknown Simplex voice evac in a brand new on-campus apartment facility.
The simplex voice evac is probably a 4010es
@@The09creeperIt’s definitely not modern enough to be a Simplex 4010es panel. Building opened in ‘87 and still has many original devices, including all the smokes and many flush mount LifeAlarm speakers. I’d put in a guess that it’s still a 2001 or 2120 panel.
Also there’s another few fails in my new dorm. The basement has a broken exit sign, a few in-room smoke alarms look loose from the wall, and a speaker/strobe or two has loose screws. I’m also iffy on the placement of some of the smokes by the elevators: they’re mounted on the wall near the corner of the wall and the ceiling, and there’s a drop ceiling directly in front of them. They should not be mounted close to corners because smoke tends not to collect in those areas.
It’s possible that it’s a 2120 but you can never confirm unless the system has the really old detector that has the led on the base. Then it’s possible for the panel to be a 2001 or 2120
Looking at the system again, I think it is/was more likely a 4100 classic given the model of the smokes.
0:44 Advanced mounting skills Simplex edition.
I honestly thought the painted and retrofitted would lead to duel strobes for fire drills and such.
I found a Simplex T bar with a broken T handle this year in Iowa.
I saw a sussy spectralert classic upside down at the mall
The one with the retrofit of the 2903 light or strobe plate isn’t technically a fail since it doesn’t affect the functionality of the alarm.
Cool video though, I’d love to see more
Well it is still is a spicy retrofit
I’ll say at least some of the 9838s still stand
The majority of the strobe plates have their original horns
@@The09creeper nice
May I ask how you imported the music? and LOL
I downloaded it as an mp3 and imported it into IMovie
@@The09creeper I knew it was something related to that, thank you!
Np
1:22 this is at the Palm Beach Gardens Mall, right?
Yes
My school's EST3 panel is in the trouble state like every other day lol. #whatafirealarmfail
Please don’t tell me that you found all of these in one building 😭💀
@@camairlines No, many of the pictures were taken in different building
Omg it’s Bogi’s white twenty nine oh treez
What?
@@The09creeperits a joke about some weird bogi curse thing lol
@@BayMinette_AlarmsI thought it was about the 2902s
Rating these fails based on how insane they are because I’m so bored:
0:00: 9/10 why even have one up all the way up there anyway 💀
0:06: 7/10 someone’s gonna steal that key 🔑 😭
0:12: 8/10 I have seen a lot of those before but still would give me a scare if it went off since I probably wouldn’t know it was there 😅
0:17: 9/10 I’m triggered now, whoever reset that…How were you hired?😬
0:27: 6/10 No💀
0:32: 15/10 do I even need to explain this?😭
0:37: 4/10 save the keys 🔑
0:42: 7/10 why ☹️
0:47: 8/10 yeah that’s totally gonna help when there is a fire 😐
0:52: 10/10 someone got a little too mad 💀
0:57: 100/10 they rly gotta deal with that water damage can be rly bad 😟
1:02: 4/10 out of words 🤦🏼♀️
1:07: 5/10 rip commander 3 😢
1:13: 6/10 ya no 😶
1:18: 9/10 oh my gosh they had one job 😡
1:23: 5/10 bruh this one is just bad-😅
1:28: 4/10 I mean is it rly that bad when u think about it 🤔
1:34: 20/10 WHY THERE 😭
1:43: 2/10 what’s wrong with it tho-🧐
1:48: 6/10 that’s gonna fall on someone’s head 😶
1:53: 2/10 ok 👍🏻
1:58: 5/10 imagine someone standing by the sign and then the fire alarm goes off and they get jumped scared by the noise cus it was hidden🤨
2:03: 4/10 why the retro…😒
2:08: 7/10 NOT AGAIN☹️
2:13: 8/10 that’s not gonna end well 😬
2:18: 1/10 ✨shiny ✨
2:23: 2/10 ok again 😐
2:30: 5/10 probably not a good place for that alarm..😶
2:39: 9/10 it’s either they forgot to take it off during an event or some random teens came along and put it on 😒
2:46: 5/10 ah yes I love taking the levator 😌
2:51: 3/10 it looks like it’s floating 😮
Ok I’m done bye bye😊
How long did that take you? holy cow
@@The09creeper 15 mins total probably with all of the pausing and thinking about the ratings lol, but it cures my boredom:) great video by the way!😄
a retrofit aint a fail. aint nun wrong wit dat. all it is is two different brands mounted together.
0:42 OMG What?!!? 😲
It’s very common to find wall mounted alarms on the ceiling
@@The09creeperDon't they need to fix that?
1:24 bro that looks disgusting I’m not even a fire alarm enthusiast and even that is bothering me
What they should have done is either remove the light plate or at least use a horn only
@@The09creeperor they could of bought a normal 12V industrial mechanical horn since they are still being produced, just not in red.
Levator
1:22 its not a real white 2903?
Still not ok.
It is not really white as it exactly matches the walls
simplex factory painted them as white
They can pull it then reset its bad
i was at in the game peabody on wednesday and in yhe firebesaoe stairwell i was on tue because you gonupnthat way when u olay laswr tag i found a pull station that was blocked
Some of them are not fails
Which ones?
@@The09creeper the ones which are retrofitted, some devices which are on the ceiling, the strobe doesnt get affected, if painted, only mechanical horns get affected and sometimes speakers
@@dutchwolf2675 while some alarms like the advance and rs, the strobe has the correct output but the fire lettering is not meant to be read from the ceiling. Witch makes me still think it a fail
@@dutchwolf2675well unfortunately for you a classic horn strobe on the ceiling is a fail because the wall mounts have a strobe specifically for facing the area. If it was a remote horn there wouldn't be a problem.
Um #whatafirealarmfail
Dead hashtag.
@@FireRescue80 whatever