I seem to recall at least one of the Simplex 4051s at my first elementary school sounding deep like that.

You forgot this one 0:35

0:53?

you mean the spectralert

1:48 thats the spectralert

Wow lol

My entire school still uses class change bells

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NLind Just say “fuck.” It’s not that hard.

It’s a 2904.

It's, "B-L-E-E-P."

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Im going back to school tomorrow and I have a Roshnii if you come to my school you'll see them!

Same

Most of them anyway

Yes. I totally agree

@@nsb1598 same

Jojuii

firefreak57 Agreed

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I didn’t, I hated these types of fire alarms

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Sounds like a fart but nice alarms

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Me to!

Yeah me too

me too

Fire Alarm Enthusiast As do I. Thanks for viewing!

It seems like this sound of alarm isn't as popular anymore. That loud screechy sound seems to be more popular

Goldenrod636 Thanks. Been busy but will see about getting back on there sometime soon.

Question: Are there more electronic horns in the building or electromechanical? And is the building gonna completely upgrade to electronic horns?

Goldenrod636 Mostly older electromechanical horns. I’d imagine they will be replaced at some point as they go bad or future renovations are done.

Apollo xp95? There in the uk and make a alternate ton aka hi lo and pulse

Sorry I accidentally disliked

It's spelt, "S-Y-N-C." And a better way to phrase your sentence would be, "There's always that one alarm that's unsynchronized."

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@@tsg931man stfu no one cares 😭

wileyk209zback Ugh! Rare 4051s and 4050-80 light plates that are EXTREMELY rare and give collectors a great gem for their collection as well as bragging rights, that get replaced with boring and common spectra alerts. They should just go back to vibratones because nobody ignored them when they were going off. Yes I know spectra alerts are loud to, but nothing like the 4051. 😒

Yeah; fire alarm technicians don't seem to realize they are practically throwing away money when they replace the old alarms. And yes, the SpectrAlert Advance definitely cannot surpass the loudness of old electromechanical horns.

Bummer dude

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@Capt_ CJ Yeah, they also replaced the 4051+4050-80s in three buildings at my college with boring SpectrAlert Advances. (The two other buildings that also had old Simplex systems now have Space Age VA4 horn/strobes.) Also, it turns out at my old school, they still have the Simplex 4010 system in use! The 4208 (which was failing and is the reason for the Advances coming in) was gutted and is now used for terminal wiring, and they replaced the original 4208 battery cabinet with a couple of EST booster power panels. This really surprised me; I thought for sure they would've gone with Notifier or Fire-Lite like my college did.

Shaun Puzon wow that code out of sync but I love the old alarm sound on code 3 and I can hear the trualart and the advanced

It would sound better in Marchtime.

gentex is too

my favorite is the truealert bc of the on-point horn

BRIAN the TOWER guy Still is on the fire alarm side (NFPA 72). Sprinkler is separate (NFPA 13/25) and doesn’t apply here being theirs no sprinkler.

Thank you! I watch all your videos, your the reason I have simplex

Siemens has gotten worse, with using the Wheelock ZNS horn/strobes and remote strobes. I saw some nice old Simplex systems get replaced by such boring Siemens systems. They've gotten almost as bad as EST, if not worse. And they often use RSG's T-bar pulls, so if it wasn't for the smoke detectors and the fact that Wheelock exclusively makes the Z-series for Siemens, they'd be no different from your average low-cost fire alarm company's offerings!

@@ZakWolf EST IS NOT BAD

No, that was just a really deep-sounding Simplex 4051.

4051

It's a college.

Not a hospital, read description. Thanks for viewing!

Lol, It was a school night. It was like 11pm, and I was tired. Thanks for pointing it out I apologize

JimLiElevators I believe that is a Simplex Remote-Light/Strobe

2904-9101.

Retro Technology Thanks for viewing!

0:52 so creepy out

This type of fire alarm is perhaps the most unpleasant sounding one. Mix the ones that are semitones apart, and they sound creepy as fuck.

Most of the time, I usually don't care about the fire alarms. The one at the very end (1:45) sounds a bit creepy to me.

@@littleexperience2.._._._._._.. what is with your profile name

@@ajsmusic723 meme

That’s the cool part with mechanical horns!

It is a good joke

@Rieon

@@attackingchildren lmao thanks but this comment is old and this was before I got more into detail about alarms xd

0:53

Don Beck they have merged into one

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Don Beck

No 0:52 is

Don Bec

Sounds as nice as a train wreck

Sounded great other than the advance

Yeah I did too sounds like some of the NAC's are out of sync because if you notice the Advances are heard after the mechanical horns stop

Thanks for viewing. I don’t believe the current panel allows for anything other than temporal coding being it basically functions as a “tricked out” security system. Also, current code dictates temporal signaling pattern.

Not True. Many Buildings And Schools In Illinois(Where I Live.) Still Uses Continuous and March Time in New Buildings. My Residential i Worked At, They're New Campus Has System Sensor P2r Horns on Continuous And Boy, Those are loud. They are set on High Volume to try to Get the occupants out of the building as Fast as Possible as the old building had Simplex 9805's Which were Dying. The Panel is a Notifier NFS-320 Control Panel.

@Marc Leslie My college campus was sticking with Continuous for their fire alarm systems for a long time, even when the Liberal Arts and Humanities buildings had their old Simplex 4207 systems completely replaced with a Faraday MPC-7000 system with Space Age VA4 horn/strobes. This was obviously due to grandfather clauses. They only began switching over to the Temporal coding this decade when many of the other buildings had their systems replaced (mostly Faraday panels from the 90s, along with a Fire-Lite MS-4424B and a Simplex 4020, all mostly replaced with Notifier systems and a Fire-Lite MS-9600UDLS), and they also replaced the alarm signals in those buildings (using SpectrAlert Advances and Exceders).

@Marc Leslie im going to disregard ur comment

Sounded like an older 4903.

The 2901 series actually came out in 1980, IIRC. I've seen Simplex systems from 1978 and 1979 that used 4051+4050-80 alarms. Some systems installed in 1980 used the 4050-80s as well. The 2901 series was also discontinued around 1990, IIRC.

wileyk209zback I read that the 2901-9838 was discontinued in 1998

wileyk209zback the 2903 series light plates came out in 1978 and the 9806 as well as the 9833 came out for the light plates around the same year. But yes, the 9838 came out in around 1980 and was discontinued in 1998.

Not sure; as I said, I've seen Simplex systems installed in 1978-1979 with the 4050-80 light plates. Five buildings at my college were built in 1978 and they originally had Simplex 4207 systems with 4051+4050-80 horn/lights. (Two of the buildings now instead have Space Age VA4 horn/strobes, and the other three also had a lot of VA4s but now just have SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes.)

I feel you man that was my favorite era

I'm getting the same thing and I have a pretty decent setup for my computer

ItsHappening Thanks for viewing!

Yes i think so

The ADA rules apply to new buildings and systems. These alarms were installed before 1990, and are thus grandfathered in (exempt).

Thanks for viewing! And as Fahrenheit mentioned, most of it is grandfathered.

Mine too

It's 9833 under 2903 plate not 9838

@@iluvmerc No, the only 9833 is the one behind the flush mount. the horns behind the 2903 were 9838's.

Probably because it's replacing a 4051 horn that had failed.

Wow

To me, it sounds like everything is out of sync. The 2901s seem to be in sync, possibly the 4051s but they don’t sync with the 2901s. But at the last clip, I hear everything going crazy. I hear 4051s, TrueAlerts and Advances. Crazy!

@@Loganetics1 Oh yeah, not sure why that is, unless each set of signals are on different NACs.

@@TheCarson116 It’s entirely possible

Frank Dougherty Thank you!

Can I ask what middle school ?

I prefer the bulbs they r safer plus u don't have to worry if they r synced or not

Incandescent bulbs to be exact.

What was the system and what’s the replacement system.

Ian Gill most probably the next floor fire alarms

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i think it's just vibrating the other side of the wall to the point that it sounds like a foghorn

ManOf_Steel0894 I can too.

Gary Beltz I thought I heard Integritys around 1:00...

TrueAlerts in some SpectrAlert in another area.

VCVCFans You mean pre-integritys right?

that was a simplex 4051

If it was, it was low-pitched like a late-gen Faraday. ;) (The 4051s are an early-gen Faraday) (pre-6020 and 5505) Like the later gen versions, they can be loosened and have a very low-pitched sound.