Dudes got an entire commercial fire alarm, access control, and intrusion detection system system in his garage. That's an impressive dedication to his work

Firefighter here. Love your videos. We do basic protection systems stuff in the academy but not that much at all. More focused on sprinkler heads, sprinkler system types, and smoke head types (I had to memorize the temps for the different colored glass bulbs which I forgot pretty much immediately). I deal with malfunctioning systems daily. Your videos help me understand more about what I'm seeing at the panel. Thanks man. Appreciate it.

Your videos are inspiring to me as a young technician. Thank you for your contribution!

Love the old Shaw Cable logo to your right at 14:09! That's a throwback!

I think the bell at 18:40 is actually pretty common. My school has a bunch of those as well as 439Ds. I've seen lots of those in multiple different buildings. The GS bells at my school were installed in 1999, And the 439Ds were installed around 1993-1996.

23:08 "mR gRoUnD fAuLt" why did I find that so funny lol

“Kids just come and rip this sprinkler head of the wall” That’s crazy lol. I’ve never seen that happen ever.

Nice video you are ensuring the safety of those kids!

Holy shit! You guys went though all that trouble, and almost thinking that you need to replace that whole system, and then later you find out that it was just the batteries? That's crazy!

18:44 me when I zoom in my phone to the GS Bell at Shoppers Mall

The ending 😂😂 love it

I showed the title to my friend and he thought it said “fire alarm crashes into elementry school”

i could hear the trouble alarm, ground faults are a pain to diagnose

Oh boy, the pain of having do deal with a ground on an Edwards panel. If it was on a Simplex panel then it would be much worse!

What a weekend; first a crashed gate, then some honey and now a missing bell(HAHA just kidding no not really) congratulations on finding the problem. Interesting that it was simply a pair of bad batteries and not something more major. I kinda figured you'd just get a "batt low" message as opposed to "gnd fault" but I guess that's just what the more recent EST2's do. Now when a storm hits this winter and the power goes out the kids will be safe knowing the backup batteries work. Too bad with the system at my work as it had an internal fault and now they have to swap the whole system out. However rumour has it that L series horns will be replacing the bells so hoping to score a 439D before the work is done. Congratulations also on your bell score. Can you do a sound level test of that GS bell? Every time I hear one I swear they seem so much louder than the 439Ds and MB-24s combined. Amazing work Nic and what a great start to September

Ah yes, you gotta love listening to est pizeo beeping for like 3-5 mins straight

The school really was lucky they had an EST 2 for 20 years. Thing shoulda broke long ago because EST was ridiculously cheap. I will admit though, EST’s new products like the EST 4 has surprised me. Its a lot better than you may think. If the panel is really screwed, EST sells an upgrade kit for upgrading from EST 2 to EST 4. Im still a hopeless simplex and notifier enthusiast, even though EST has surprised me and exceeded my expectations this time.

Nice video keep up the work also I came first lol keep up the work is it going to be replaced btw?

Battery's on constant charge fail due to heat issues or charging circuit over charging all so goes for emergency lighting pack's, but one great thing all the emergency lights and fore panel's you have you can scrap the battery's and get nice bucks for.

Seems your from BC, based on a magnetic L I saw on your breaker panel in a previous video. Where do you get your new parts from?

cool video and you know your stuff about elctriail stuff one day you work at for school eletratil tech

Do you ever find leaking flow switches as a cause for ground faults? I see it often in my neck of the woods.

Super good videos

I want that GS bell too I think it’s at my old school.

we hit 118 yesterday or about 48 celisius. High of 82 for you is a way colder day for us.

I have a fire alarm control panel and it’s not working that good whenever I pull a pull station it does not sound I know the wiring is correct but it’s just not going off I’ve been trying to fix it these past two days

At my school, ours is getting changed after 30 years. We had no problems with it but they decided to change it.

Ground fault on a short wire: 😁 Ground fault on a fire system: 😐 Ground fault on a fire system in a mall: ☹️ Ground fault on a semi truck: 🫠 Ground fault on a power line: 💀 Ground fault on a light pole system: ☠️☠️☠️

Do you have any fire alarm testing videos at this school?

18:40 i have seen those bells in a hotel before.

Hello! where do you actually buy all your stuff like panels, pullstations, detectors?

It seems like this system was built to last. This being EST, and installed in 2002.

20:52 according to another video your pool is _electrically energized._

What caused the alarms to sound? Was it the water by the building? Or did your works set it off?

20:03 is that vibrating or motor bell?

I have a big request can you show me all the types of bells at this school one of them sounds nice I hear the notifier bells at my school

Test the test bell

Since you hate simplex I think that simplex made the batteries cause a ground fault.

9:03 I'm sorry does that gate have a *DOOR CLOSER* on it???

can you film more troubleshooting videos

Sounds like you have a ground fault of your own!

Hey Nick I Would Just Upgrade This Whole System To A Napco Gemini Commercial Combo Burglar/Fire Security System Because I Love The Napco Products Better!

did you get the est 2 that you destroyed from this school

Did the system get fixed?

@ 5:27 Ricky Skaggs " Honey wont you open that door" I am not sure if this worked out for who ever put honey on the door at the school!! lol I have no Idea if the lyrics to the song are god for the 45 or not, as I believe this is a country soong, and I am into the rare 60's - 70s Rock! oh and yes I have the 45 to this song as well!

Is that a simplex GFCI?

Yh i can hear the beeping

8:11 what was it?

I like your videos

I think it may be time for a 320.

I heard the beeping

hay nic s there sumthing ronge with you camera i can see green purple mark on the video on the start of the video you see it just look were the fire poll stashen is

Your videos of all of those fire alarms❤👍👏👌

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nic. = ground fault electrican = no there isnt