boy you weren't kidding that last horn sounds like it's being choked to death lol

Holy crap. This fire alarm is furious and intimidating. It says, in no uncertain terms: you need to get your ass out of this building NOW.

YAAAAYYYYY! Your back!!! I wondered what happened to you! Thanks for new posts!! :)

At 2:10: quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! LOL.

Interesting video. Thanks for posting.

I am sick of people questioning this person... he knows what he is doing and because of all your judgments and stupid questions he will not take comments. I had a question that was not answered because of all the "simplex" know it alls

@jangofett1014 Those horns do not have circuit boards, just a coil that makes the horn vibrate against the diaphram which causes the noise. The diaphram on these old mechanical horns can be adjusted but in most cases I replace it with a new horn.

This is how the fire alarm sounded in my high school.

the last alarm horn sounds very weak broken circuit board

@SimplexGrinnell9838 would agree 100% per cent - you are correct.

Nice video. And yes, the last horn is dying. It saying: "Help me... take me down... dying please help... i lived... a long... life in... this building..." And so forth.

@SimplexTech Its closed now, but I use to work at a plywood mill and the most recent alarm sytem was Simplex that was installed in 1987. The building had mostly mechanical horns with a incandecent light that would light up with the horn, but in some areas of the mill they had electronic horns with the same incandecent lights. They were high pitched and I have never seen them in any other building. Do you know of them?

@wileyk209zback Not sure. I know the 4005 replaced the 4002; not sure what was there before that.

@TssCman123 These were grandfathered; the new section has them.

@tubemaster2703 Strobes are standard for current systems I'm afraid. They have added what's called a sync module to either the horns themselves or the panel that makes all the strobes flash at the same time and at the same speed to minimize the chances of them triggering seizures Plus a strobe can be set to a specific brightness which light bulbes can't.

@Tabby266 the original part of the building does not have strobes; the new part does (see part 2).

@jangofett1014 I work for Simplex doing repairs. And all those horn models you mention are obsolete - time for new horns.

@tubemaster2703 yes, lots of them, and strobes are a standard notification appliance.

ok the thing I am wondering is what is the difference in opening a pull station with the key as I've seen you (and others) do vs. actually pulling the lever??

@DarkGeek24 I understand where you may have thought it was a voice evac but I do hear voices but it's probably just SimplexTech talking to his partner or members of the school's staff

@peakster753 The only difference is if you pull the lever, you'd have to open the pull to reset it. The pull will trip the system whether the lever was pulled or you opened it with a key. When you're running a test, it's faster just to open the pull. The pull may also have break-rods behind the lever. Opening the pull bypasses that.

@DarkGeek24 Just plain old fire alarm horns at this building

@Wilby1977 Thank you. If you want to email me your question on here I will do my best to answer it.

Love the echo. Were those 2901-9838's?

I just know that they all sound like 9833s or 9838s

@SimplexTech are u a fire inspector or a marshall? And i need to fix my 4050 are those 4040 4050 or a 4051?

@ 2:13 it sounds like I could take out a rifle and shoot at some ducks. :-)

were there kids there when you were doing this

@snhtown9 - my thoughts exactly

nice video. But too bad you only filmed the floor and not the school. Would have been cool to see the alarms and the strobes flashing.

those must be really loud

@firealarmfreak5 if you didn't see any, then no.

just curious how much would a simplex 4005 panel cost?

@SimplexTech How new is the new building?

@SimplexTech cool i want to be that how old do u have 2 be to join?

@Wilby1977 yes.

@SimplexGrinnell9838 i think theyre all 9833s

@Gb755c If I remember right I still had my stash of 9838s. Those horns are junk.

What did the dying horn get replaced with?

Show me the horns show me the horns! :P and was this possibly at the same school building that you were at before with the Simplex 2901-9838s?

great vid simplextech :) dont listen to the "tough guys" on here, your videos are very very good :)

Dang that pu.l station that you used to set off the system at the beginning looks very old considering the FIRE" and PULL DOWN" labels were totally unreadable