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you should donate some of this hardware to various fire museums in Canada. please tell old school fire alarms about this. He'll probably be happy that you salvaged the entire system.

My high school got a new EST panel and swapped bells for EST Genesis horn strobes relatively recently. All detectors were left from the 90s except in the addition built around the same time. The school was built in the late 50s and was modernized and expanded in the 90s. (By the way, on the third day of school this year, one of the ventilation fans caught fire, made a lot of smoke and caused the school to lose power. We also lost all ventilation for about a month after the fire.)

Great job catching the errors in part list and going above beyond to make sure the system is adequate you are a inspiration. Thank you

the fact u disobeyed orders, and kept the alarms at high volume is awesome. doing whats right is better than doing what others say

Wow! Awesome job as always. It was kinda weird how the school had the old system setup with the wires like that. It was definitely hard to tell which was which.

It's funny seeing you and the others upgrading a schools fire alarm, while my school doesn't have anything fire safety related except a fire extinguisher.

You are inspiring me to become an Inspector/tech in the future, I really enjoy watching your videos and they make it feel like I’m ready for the job whenever I decide to start it. Keep up the great content! I know that you were told to set the alarms on low volume but the fact that you said they wouldn’t be loud enough just proves how much you care for the safety of the school. Keep up the great content and I can’t wait to see future replacements!! And yes, majority of the schools from the 50s/60s use black and white wires mainly because of how it was back then, I also learned that myself. Can’t wait to see more!!

Like your coordination on how you and your co-workers keep in touch. Might look into some walkie talkies for longer distances.

18:07 The Coldplay in the background 😇

Please do more of these, it's fascinating to watch

Nick was extremely nice just want to give the music teacher that fire bell is made me so happy thanks for giving him the bell nic

I love the Foo Fighters, whoever is playing music in the video has great taste of music.

Nice. Can’t wait to see part 2

Going from a typical Canadian fire alarm system of the time to what feels more like a typical modern USA fire alarm system. Edwards is still pretty common in Canada, but Notifier is rarer. Interesting how that gymnasium used an old Edwards Adaptahorn as a school bell. I've seen several older Canadian schools often use 4" or 6" bells as school bells alongside 10" fire alarm bells, so you can at least tell their sound apart (as the fire alarm bells would be louder than the school bells).

You have such amazing videos. Can’t wait to see part 2 of this replacement

47:05 OSHA would like to speak with you regarding your ladder skootch. Great video!

Just finished my fire alarm set up with the help of my dad( and you) :)

I still see these everywhere I go-

also excited to see the video about garage building fire alarm tie in.

At least they gave you 2 different colors, I did one job on a condo building built in the 70’s and they use all one color wire different by floor though. So first floor you had like 2 oranges, 2nd 2 blues, 3rd 2 purple. I gave up and put a battery on the color in the panel so I could figure it out as I went. The wires were textured so you were suppose to be able to tell the difference but they didn’t even use that consistently. I also got electrocuted in the elevator shaft swapping the top of shaft detector, for some reason the I beam was hot when I was at the top of shaft.

Great video, can’t wait for the rest of the videos. How come the intrusion alarm was beeping and what did you do to the rest of the detectors which were left over and what did you do with the 851. Keep up the great work!

Great video Nic. I wish i an old fire bell like that.

I routinely track down ground faults. Definitely repairable.

14:29 i ❤️ the stuff you do!

Your videos are pretty interesting! Usually in a long form video, I will skip, what is the videos on your channel, I don’t skip. You earned a sub

delightful selection of background music

I just love it

The moment when I got home and I checked my notifications on KZfaq and I saw that you installed a new fire alarm system in the school, I start freaking out

Fun fact: Our school Fire alarm system is very different then American and Canadian Fire Alarm System, You Guys Call your Fire alarm pull thingy Pull Stations but as a Australian, we call ours Call Points, and We have Fire alarm Speakers, Call points Strobes, and Bells. And we don't really have Much Sirens as in Air Raid Sirens in, America and Canada, the last time i heard Siren, is in Queensland. It's interesting how different Fire Alarm systems work.

I had a fire drill today and my school has so many different alarms and nothing is in sync! I wonder if its legal in Ontario canada

Sounds update fresh system for more protection school system! 😊👍🏻

I wonder how long it takes tho really cool Nic! Also for Halloween I'm getting a motion detector and connecting it to a fire alarm horn strobe.

I would like to get my hands on one of those giant fire bells.

Great content as always nic thanks for sharing

150 smokes and 10 horns is wild. The residential work I do is opposite, we put 3 smokes in a basement and end up putting 7 horns cause they need 1 in every apartment. Keeping the horns loud was def the right call but I still worry that there's nowhere near enough horns in there

Awesome video as usual. like the music too lol

Man, great taste in music, I was jamming out on certain parts of the video lol

Nice work so far! Also, what all was saved from the system? I was also surprised to hear music in the background as you usually edit it out of the video to protect against copyright.

i noticed that old edwards horn in the gym

When i was a kid i used to be afraid of the sound it made

11:23 the one thing you’re never ever supposed to do with a Durabel bell; “remove the gong” Did you save one though along with the panel? Such treasures these vintage Edwards components are. Also can I have one too? Always wanted my own vintage Durabel.

Would there be junction boxes for some of the old system..? Maybe correct the reverse poles there...?

foo fighters 🔥nice video tho

It’s 3 in the morning I should be asleep but no i decide to watch an hour long video on someone installing a fire alarm system (not saying I regret this decision)

My apartment building is outdated on the fire alarm system. Hallways and laundry rooms have fire alarms and all the apartments only have heat sensors. One at the entrance of the apartment and one heat panel above the range. I can barely hear the fire alarm going off in the middle of the night!

I also love that the fire alarm is covered in the gym but the bell isn’t

My school's fire alarm you just scare the crap out of me as a kid

Im always curious how much all the parts for full system replacements cost

It pains me to see this old system go, but understandable why it has to happen.

what model were the bells? also hopefully the pull-stations and the bells didn't get thrown away

Well, I had one more thing about the white wire when it comes to go behind someone else’s work you really need to just trace out the wiring and figure it out but with an alarm system installed like that or fire alarm system, there should be some type of schematic already drawn up for it course it may just give you a general idea not an exact but then again like I said you’re going behind somebody else’s work, so it really depends on What they want to hook it up at the time so I got a question about on somebody’s pool station you’re putting and I’m seeing these nice red rings that are attached to the side of them that’s something I’ve never seen before is that to keep people from running into it and breaking the station off or is it serving the purpose?

How does the addressing transfer through the wires to the panel? Is it certain electrical pulses or does one act as a data cable?

Nic try Gent by Honeywell it’s British it’s really good and has voice evac built into the vigilon range try a demo board of it

Awesome job! Isn’t it amazing when the guy behind you burns you by not making a wire list or notes. Not your fault but should have been done back when the wires were ran.

Nice video. One question, why did you have to remove the old bells? They are much nicer and cooler than boring ringing. Bells are what fire alarms should be.

With that pull station that one that had the small back box I would probably replace it if I was with you with a SB-IO back box for the BG12 series of pull stations

Well, first time to say you’re doing a good job on what you’re doing second when it comes to annunciators depending on your current, you should be able to wire in more to accommodate the long hallway if y’all chose to or if the school or establishment one and more courses a cost increase on that but anyway And you mention something about the white wire and low voltage applications from low voltage applications. White wire was all it could be hot nine times out of 10. It also could be a neutral wire and if you wanted to know which ones are hot or neutral I don’t know why you guys are not using wire tracers unless you’re single or tone toner basically to tone out those cables, unless you do it the same time but I suspect this is probably an older video because it seems like I’ve seen this one before but I can’t remember anyway you’re doing a good job for your age when I was your age I was doing this stuff set back there we were wiringthe things that you’re replacing now except for you’re actually getting paid to do it so you’re lucky compared to most kids are my age back then it was older people that did this kind of stuff anyway have a good one be watching more of your videos

27:39 whoever is listening to that song has good taste!

RIP noble 6500…thank you for a noble 40+ years of stellar service. Bye bye Durabels 😢

I also would have wanted to keep the fire bell

Please keep the panel, it is really cool, and if possible, maybe you can see one of these days, try to fix the ground fault

Ok yea that system needed to be junked and replaced.

Have any customers opted for the systems that provide the slow whooping alerts followed by a voice alert? What makes them choose those systems over the standard beepers?

Pretty much every school fire alarm system that your company maintains is notifier.

What are those old Edwards Adaptahorns for? I assume class change 'bells' because the fire system was bells and they needed a distinct sound

34:48 whos playing the music, love a bit of sub focus

Hey Nic, did you take the bells and pulls with you? Maybe smokes too?

Great video Nic. What's your thoughts on the new L Series LED's?

Meanwhile our school fire alarms fail at doing Code 3 properly lmao, It's a notifier panel too, it has System sensor spectre alert classics. Yet every time they go off the alarm will sound twice and then stop randomly not completing Code 3.

So the wiring for a conventional vs addressable system is compatible enough you don’t have to pull any new wire?

So it WAS basically used to be 2 separate cross-monitored systems…like your current setup at home?

Is that your drone taking the inital pictures from above at the beginning of the video?

That is honestly pretty shitty that the color coding was jacked up, I mean, yeah I get that it didn't matter with the Edwards/EST 6500, but still... probably should've had a consistent positive and negative, not good. And I am not blasting you and your crew by any means. You guys did a good job actually.

Gonna keep the old panel? I know it’s internally grounded, but maybe you could fix/replace the bad component(s). Also could I potentially buy the old iO panel off you? I would like something to replace my ground issue fireshield panel. I could use the old monitor modules for the conventional devices. No need to worry about how I’ll re-program the system, I can do that too.

If I'm not mistaken you didn't need to go through all that trouble checking polarity. Since you're redoing the wiring at the panel and at literally every device you should be able to go with normal coloring and it will work out in the end. AFAIK the only way it wouldn't work is if there's a junction box you don't touch _and_ the colors are crossed inside that box. Obviously the work is already done but that's what I would have suggested.

Was you doing this during school time or after school?

Fire lite: why not me😢

So you’re using existing wire?

Great job but I think for people who don’t know anything about this stuff though (me) you need to speak a little more “english” to explain what things are… I almost had to click off the video due to all these “nerd like” terms… either way I love what your doing so don’t get me wrong… it’s just you kept stating the objects with the technical name rather then making it understandable for a broad KZfaq audience 💯💯 good job though bro 🔥

The amount of scrap switches your getting should be Good money at scrap Yard

How much did the school district pay for this whole job?

Ngl, its kinda sad to see one these vintage panels go

So why couldn’t you have left the fire alarm bells in place versus the electronic siren

Is this a notifier l series system

What do they do with the fire bells?

Is this the same school you filmed the annual test where you stayed by the panel in the portables and would go outside and yell "RESET!"?

I wish I could be part of this

IMO connecting the old zone lines directly to a battery to check polarity is a bad idea. There's too much potential for a short circuit to happen, either by accidentally touching wires or by a device activating. Your idea of grounding one wire and checking continuity is better in my opinion.

I've always wondered how the portables are connected to the Fire Alarm System? Due to the portables get moved to different schools, hence the name, "Portable."

Nepal

Now i have a question you see im getting an EST 6630 Edwerds fire controll pannel a bit over 30 years old works like a the best thing ever no problem with it never had a ground fault once. im also getting the bells and the pull stations with it anyhting i should know abt this type of pannel anything helps becouse im just starting a likeing in this stuff ive already started with a DSC Neo and a DSC powerseries (the powerseries works like a charm) im able to code those blind now. so il ask again anything i should know abt this pannel?

de'aonote cin👍👍

Ensure you let Congress know and train them to stay away from them.

But white is supposed to be neutral in other words negative. Black is hot, positive. Strange that it would be reversed.

Lives and property saved by pull stations: 0 and 0

I have been dieing to know but where do yo buy fire alarm equitment

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Despite the Honeywell brands such as Notifier obviously being the superior product, I honestly prefer every pull station Edwards ever made, as well as every single T bar style pull station (yes, even Simplex) over anything the Honeywell brands (or Siemens) ever made. Why? Because they seem far less susceptible to false activation. On the Edwards and T bar style pull stations, you pull outwards. Siemens and Honeywell push inwards and down, or straight down. Ever see the viral video where someone was playing catch with a hair brush, hit a BG12 in a diagonal downward motion, and activated it? Never going to happen with a 270-SPO, ever.