the color coded pipes remind me of hospital medical gas systems that are also color coded for different machines. I used to work for a hospital and was surprised the same gas tube // pipe colors were sometimes unique to specific countries.
Notice that the Monitoring TV was there also, i bet you it has something to do with just looking in the window to see the Monitoring 'at-a-glance' style to make sure no alarms are going off.
been in building maintenance for 15 years worked in a few boiler rooms that one nice lots of room to swing a wrench /helper bar when you need to close a valve
Your so lucky that your schools maintenance staff is nice enough let you join them in these activities. My school is the exact opposite, very mean, and even if you have a passion or interest in it they don’t care. Great video once again!
@@andydelle4509 I don't really see how insurance would have anything to do with that. It would seem more likely to be a work safe or OSHA thing if you don't have any training. But who knows.
@@nics-systems-electric Well if a student gets hurt doing work a contractor should be doing. At least in the USA, that's a law suit. And the liability insurance typically pays that. I'm not a lawyer or insurance professional but this is well known here.
@@andydelle4509 if they are just some random student that it has not been authorized then sure but if they're going through training and they're covered by whatever you're employee protection organization is where you are I don't see the issue
13:10 Never seen a SpectrAlert Advance with English and French fire lettering as I'm pretty sure the French fire lettering is a sticker as the P2RA or SRA models don't have the French fire lettering at all
I believe my school fire alarm system is a notifier 3030 or a 640. I don’t know which one it is, but it has to be one of those two panels and it’s one of the older panels. It was a panel made before they said Honeywell number just said notifier on it. Also, we have NBG12LX for pull stations and our smoke detectors are FSP 958 and your notification appliances are P2R horn strobes, and we do have a couple duct detectors in the cafeteria in the gym also, the classrooms have SR strobes, and some classrooms have SRL strobes good night
This isn’t related to the video but i have a question about something i notice but not sure why it’s like that, i was wondering why are some exposed fire sprinkler pipes painted white? Because usually they are painted red
Okay Question, if the Genset feeds that building, when then breaks out to the individual schools, why put the transfer switch in each school locally rather than have them there in the utility building centrally to that location? Good video as always Nic :)
It's because you would have to bring your power from the main switchgear of the school all the way back to the transfer switch just to bring it back to the school once again so you'd end up making three trips back-and-forth so more Voltage Drop more conductors more conduit. Instead by doing it this way you only have your one 600 A service power and then the 170 amp generator feed going to each building. Otherwise you would have to break off of the 600 amp switch gear to go back to the central plant and then back to the school. And keep in mind each school has two transfer switches. so with the current set up there is six conductors feeding each school not counting parallel runs, but if you went with transfer switches at the central plant you would have a 15 conductors again not counting parallel runs. There may also be other requirements such as having the transfer switches within the building.
@@nics-systems-electric Electrically speaking you could have one "regular" feed and one critical loads feed and it would still be only 6 conductors to each school. The practical problem I can think of from having the transfer switch in the central building is that is you sever one underground line you lose critical loads power. With the transfer switch in the school you could lose a wire carrying normal power and still be able to switch to backup power.
Man my school in east islip we have 2 elamantry k to 2 and 3 to5 and hs and ms they have conventional pulls and addressable smokes and I hate my district
So, is the CPU for that building a CPU-320C or a CPU-320SYS? Btw at 14:05, once the electrician did a System Reset, it became a Symphony of piezos you had the NCA-2's piezo, the CPU's piezo, and the annunciator's piezo. I just thought that was funny lol 😂😂😂
The CPU themselves are identical the only difference is the back piece of metal that attaches to the panels however you can make them both work so I'm not exactly sure
@@nics-systems-electric Well, typically if there is an NFS-320 in a cabinet like that. It would probably be a Notifier NFS-320SYS. But as far as what the CPU is, I am not sure. But you should be able to see what the variant of NFS-320 it is, whether it is a CPU-320C or a CPU-320SYS. It would be printed on the PCB somewhere; I cannot remember exactly where it would be though.
@@IanGSully the only difference is the metal backing plate the actual CPU and firmware has no difference I'm not even sure if it would be printed on the PCB it would more likely be a sticker on the metal mounting plate
@@nics-systems-electric I just meant that with the small amount of devices it’s a joke to test your other testing videos are way longer than that one lol
Huh The alarms actually go off at the central plant. I watched the other video How come none of the pull stations set off the alarm at the elementary school?
That mechanical room layout be looking like google's water cooling system.
lol
the color coded pipes remind me of hospital medical gas systems that are also color coded for different machines. I used to work for a hospital and was surprised the same gas tube // pipe colors were sometimes unique to specific countries.
that's actually really cool that they display the pipes through the windows!
Notice that the Monitoring TV was there also, i bet you it has something to do with just looking in the window to see the Monitoring 'at-a-glance' style to make sure no alarms are going off.
Wow, you guys really built some beautiful school buildings up there! Nice video, Nic!
Thats really cool how its near middle school to a elementary never seen that in our area.
That's really cool to test the central plant. Nice Nic.
I swear, This guy is awesome
That mechanical room is so cool!
been in building maintenance for 15 years worked in a few boiler rooms that one nice lots of room to swing a wrench /helper bar when you need to close a valve
Your so lucky that your schools maintenance staff is nice enough let you join them in these activities. My school is the exact opposite, very mean, and even if you have a passion or interest in it they don’t care. Great video once again!
That's unfortunate
It might be an insurance issue.
@@andydelle4509 I don't really see how insurance would have anything to do with that. It would seem more likely to be a work safe or OSHA thing if you don't have any training. But who knows.
@@nics-systems-electric Well if a student gets hurt doing work a contractor should be doing. At least in the USA, that's a law suit. And the liability insurance typically pays that. I'm not a lawyer or insurance professional but this is well known here.
@@andydelle4509 if they are just some random student that it has not been authorized then sure but if they're going through training and they're covered by whatever you're employee protection organization is where you are I don't see the issue
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I watch your videos everyday!
reminds me of your garage system
Nice video I love your videos
Interesting stuff even though I have no idea what you’re talking about. 👍🏼👍🏼
Such a small system!
woah!
ive been waiting for this vid ngl
13:10 Never seen a SpectrAlert Advance with English and French fire lettering as I'm pretty sure the French fire lettering is a sticker as the P2RA or SRA models don't have the French fire lettering at all
Really they're all over the place here
I believe my school fire alarm system is a notifier 3030 or a 640. I don’t know which one it is, but it has to be one of those two panels and it’s one of the older panels. It was a panel made before they said Honeywell number just said notifier on it. Also, we have NBG12LX for pull stations and our smoke detectors are FSP 958 and your notification appliances are P2R horn strobes, and we do have a couple duct detectors in the cafeteria in the gym also, the classrooms have SR strobes, and some classrooms have SRL strobes good night
That's odd that there is a older panel with almost brand new still 951 detectors unless it's a original can and CPU was updated
This isn’t related to the video but i have a question about something i notice but not sure why it’s like that, i was wondering why are some exposed fire sprinkler pipes painted white? Because usually they are painted red
I've never seen a red sprinkler pipe I've always only seen them left black how they come or painted to match the ceiling
Okay Question, if the Genset feeds that building, when then breaks out to the individual schools, why put the transfer switch in each school locally rather than have them there in the utility building centrally to that location?
Good video as always Nic :)
It's because you would have to bring your power from the main switchgear of the school all the way back to the transfer switch just to bring it back to the school once again so you'd end up making three trips back-and-forth so more Voltage Drop more conductors more conduit. Instead by doing it this way you only have your one 600 A service power and then the 170 amp generator feed going to each building. Otherwise you would have to break off of the 600 amp switch gear to go back to the central plant and then back to the school. And keep in mind each school has two transfer switches. so with the current set up there is six conductors feeding each school not counting parallel runs, but if you went with transfer switches at the central plant you would have a 15 conductors again not counting parallel runs. There may also be other requirements such as having the transfer switches within the building.
@@nics-systems-electric makes sense, i dont do main line or high voltage stuff. just IT and Low Voltage stuff.
@@nics-systems-electric Electrically speaking you could have one "regular" feed and one critical loads feed and it would still be only 6 conductors to each school. The practical problem I can think of from having the transfer switch in the central building is that is you sever one underground line you lose critical loads power. With the transfer switch in the school you could lose a wire carrying normal power and still be able to switch to backup power.
Nice video, Nic!
Where about are you in Canada? Is that Vancouver island? Looks stunning, want to add to my bucket list.
Man my school in east islip we have 2 elamantry k to 2 and 3 to5 and hs and ms they have conventional pulls and addressable smokes and I hate my district
Cool!
Nice and short lol
So, is the CPU for that building a CPU-320C or a CPU-320SYS?
Btw at 14:05, once the electrician did a System Reset, it became a Symphony of piezos you had the NCA-2's piezo, the CPU's piezo, and the annunciator's piezo. I just thought that was funny lol 😂😂😂
The CPU themselves are identical the only difference is the back piece of metal that attaches to the panels however you can make them both work so I'm not exactly sure
@@nics-systems-electric Well, typically if there is an NFS-320 in a cabinet like that. It would probably be a Notifier NFS-320SYS. But as far as what the CPU is, I am not sure. But you should be able to see what the variant of NFS-320 it is, whether it is a CPU-320C or a CPU-320SYS. It would be printed on the PCB somewhere; I cannot remember exactly where it would be though.
@@IanGSully the only difference is the metal backing plate the actual CPU and firmware has no difference I'm not even sure if it would be printed on the PCB it would more likely be a sticker on the metal mounting plate
@@nics-systems-electric Oh okay. That makes sense.
7:08 i know what to do here. Where is my Portal gun??
Can we see a generator load test
I started recording the load bank test in the summertime but they don't get any views so I didn't do it
@@nics-systems-electric id view it 100%
I didn't notice any chillers in the mechanical room. How are the buildings cooled in the summer?
It's ground source heat pumps piped too hydronic evaporators in the different AHU in each building. Using lots of six way valves on some of the units.
Nic are you still gonna be doing fire alarm testing at your high school after you’ve graduated
No I won't
Nooooooooooooo why that was my favorite school you tested
Do you do testing systems all over North America?
No just my school district
Do you plan on doing the generator test at this location? As far as testing goes, that building is a joke to test.
If I ever have a chance. I don't know how it's a joke to test though, you don't have to watch it if you don't like
@@nics-systems-electric I just meant that with the small amount of devices it’s a joke to test your other testing videos are way longer than that one lol
Did you take any pull stations that were in the box in the electrical room where the panel was ?
No
what vid is the one that you install your fire Door
Huh The alarms actually go off at the central plant. I watched the other video How come none of the pull stations set off the alarm at the elementary school?
They did if you watch the whole video. We had the signals bypassed.
@@nics-systems-electricoh
13:53 fucks sake, Peter
To be fair 90% of the building's had no glass in them
@@nics-systems-electric oh lol
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