I would love to see another “durability test” of fire alarm equipment but with ElectroBOOM. That guy knows his stuff when it comes to destroying equipment (and electrical systems in general.) He is also just a ferry ride away. I’d love to see a collaboration someday.
Hey nic, I heard that Canada had a forest fire with smoke and the smoke came to Illinois weather channel was going crazy yesterday because of the smoke yesterday and we did have some power outages with no rain, no thunderstorms, no wind idk why the power went out, Please read this and thank you
The gym you mentioned with the horn/strobes not being loud enough should be set to high volume because if there was a gym event and the people who are on the bleachers are loud, the horn/strobes could be heard through the noise
No they are two separate schools just fed from the same electrical distribution and generator and same heating and cooling plant other than that they are two separate buildings all three buildings are networked together however if any one alarms it will just come up as a indicator light at the annunciator in the other two buildings they do not put each other into full alarm
Cool video and cool school! Did you make a video about this school doing a drill very recently? And how come I heard the security system go off when you pulled it, I also heard it last time you did a drill at this school. I love how you do a drone shot around schools! School looks very nice, can’t wait for the annual! Keep up the great work!
There have been two drills at this video uploaded a week apart and filmed like two weeks apart and it's not the security siren but the PA system that plays a quick siren Woop when it's being triggered to shut down
@@nics-systems-electric Aside from the volume setting, that less scratchy sound is probably why the L-series horn sounds a bit less harsh on my ears than the Advance. I also find the Wheelock AS and the Simplex TrueAlert (specifically the multi-candela horn/strobe models) just as loud.
My school gym is worse. It is a voice evac system and is tied into the sound system in there. The problem is that if the sound system is turned off or is turned down, that also affects the voice evac. They do also have a ton of speaker/strobes in there (17 to be exact) but those are completely inaudible over people talking.
@@joeycaridi3030 There is also a volume problem in the classrooms. Like I mentioned earlier, the school has voice evac so it is pretty quiet. The problem is that the original part of the school (built in 2008) has nothing in the classrooms and the additions only have remote strobes in the classrooms.
Being from the UK I’m not to familiar with regulations in the US and Canada, however they seem relatively similar for placements and volumes. One thing I have to question is the singular blue strobe outside, why only one? Why blue? Also have to question the lack of outside horns/strobes
Horn strobes are not required outside unless it's part of the building that you need to evacuate. blue strobe is just to indicate to responding fire department annunciator location
2:02 Headphone users lower Your Volume if you had it at 100% or Else RIP your hearing because it would be very loud potentially even louder than in real life in that woodshop of that middle school 2:03 is when fire drill is on
The horn strobes in the gym aren't loud because they're behind the cages that an STI stopper uses and set to low volume which reduces the sound output from the horn strobes by absorbing the sound waves so to fix this problem the cages have to be replaced with wire guard cages and turn the horn strobes up to high volume and it's kinda ironic that this is in a gym and they would be louder than in other areas but you're wrong
@@nics-systems-electric It could be these cages that they're making it sound quieter just like taping a horn strobe to make it quiet as these aren't wire guard cages where using wire guard cages will make the horn strobe retain the same volume
@nics-systems-electric isn't that too often. I live in England and when I was in school we always had to have one in September after the 6 week holiday then we would not have another one until April time
@@ashleyshorthouse2807 we are required to do six per year and the school did not open in September as it was still under construction it did not open until after winter break and they didn't do drills for the first couple months while they settled in so they got pushed back a long ways and I still don't think they did all six
@@nics-systems-electric no i meant like when will you guys be able to get a tech over and have you all will take a look again and fingers crossed it gets fixed
I love how you take the sound level of a system into consideration ! ! As a fire alarm engineer, it shocks me how quite some new systems are.
Brings me back to my days in school when we had fire drills 😊😊😊
Wonderful editing as always NIC!!
Thank you
ik this is an old video but those drone shots at the beginning were sick
Great video nic keep up the work
I would love to see another “durability test” of fire alarm equipment but with ElectroBOOM. That guy knows his stuff when it comes to destroying equipment (and electrical systems in general.) He is also just a ferry ride away. I’d love to see a collaboration someday.
This is really well designed system
Hey nic, I heard that Canada had a forest fire with smoke and the smoke came to Illinois weather channel was going crazy yesterday because of the smoke yesterday and we did have some power outages with no rain, no thunderstorms, no wind idk why the power went out, Please read this and thank you
The gym you mentioned with the horn/strobes not being loud enough should be set to high volume because if there was a gym event and the people who are on the bleachers are loud, the horn/strobes could be heard through the noise
Him *uploads a video*
Me *Runs to find my phone to watch*
As an autistic person who likes pretty much any kind of technology, I can sit and watch these videos for hours lol
Do you have to go to both buildings for the drills? Like one at the middle school then elementary? Or do both go off at the same time?
No they are two separate schools just fed from the same electrical distribution and generator and same heating and cooling plant other than that they are two separate buildings all three buildings are networked together however if any one alarms it will just come up as a indicator light at the annunciator in the other two buildings they do not put each other into full alarm
Hello @@nics-systems-electric
Cool video and cool school! Did you make a video about this school doing a drill very recently? And how come I heard the security system go off when you pulled it, I also heard it last time you did a drill at this school. I love how you do a drone shot around schools! School looks very nice, can’t wait for the annual! Keep up the great work!
There have been two drills at this video uploaded a week apart and filmed like two weeks apart and it's not the security siren but the PA system that plays a quick siren Woop when it's being triggered to shut down
@@nics-systems-electricSome bad news is in my comment on the video.
Those L-series horn/strobes are actually a tad softer than the SpectrAlert Advances.
They are just as loud but they don't have as scratchy as a sound keep in mind the school has them all set to low volume for the most part as well
@@nics-systems-electric Aside from the volume setting, that less scratchy sound is probably why the L-series horn sounds a bit less harsh on my ears than the Advance. I also find the Wheelock AS and the Simplex TrueAlert (specifically the multi-candela horn/strobe models) just as loud.
2:02 that siren noise warns you that it's about to be loud!
What do you use to edit your videos?
Final Cut Pro X
My school gym is worse. It is a voice evac system and is tied into the sound system in there. The problem is that if the sound system is turned off or is turned down, that also affects the voice evac. They do also have a ton of speaker/strobes in there (17 to be exact) but those are completely inaudible over people talking.
This is why they need to add relays that turn up the sound system when the fire alarm voice evac system activates so it's loud and not quiet
@@joeycaridi3030 Yeah they definitely need to do something.
@@joeycaridi3030 There is also a volume problem in the classrooms. Like I mentioned earlier, the school has voice evac so it is pretty quiet. The problem is that the original part of the school (built in 2008) has nothing in the classrooms and the additions only have remote strobes in the classrooms.
Being from the UK I’m not to familiar with regulations in the US and Canada, however they seem relatively similar for placements and volumes. One thing I have to question is the singular blue strobe outside, why only one? Why blue? Also have to question the lack of outside horns/strobes
Horn strobes are not required outside unless it's part of the building that you need to evacuate. blue strobe is just to indicate to responding fire department annunciator location
2:02 Headphone users lower Your Volume if you had it at 100% or Else RIP your hearing because it would be very loud potentially even louder than in real life in that woodshop of that middle school 2:03 is when fire drill is on
Was this drill filmed a while ago? I thought you did one at this school last week?
The one uploaded last week was from like three weeks ago this one was from two weeks ago
Wow system is synced unlike one school that’s been shown on this page🙄
Yeah we still have to go back there and try again
@@nics-systems-electric My school is far worse. They had to put the alarms on continuous it was that bad. The strobes make it look like a disco party
Is the PA system telecor or rauland
CareHawk
Can rauland and telecor work with the dukane
@@novadiddy420 I'm not sure
What part of Canada are you from?
The Canadian part.
I will not tell you
See a rally good viod on here
I want to hear the intercom in these schools
Good Evening Love Your Videos. Hey I Was Wondering Why English Was The 2Nd Word On Pull Station? Have A Blessed Day
It's because Canada has two official languages being English and French
The horn strobes in the gym aren't loud because they're behind the cages that an STI stopper uses and set to low volume which reduces the sound output from the horn strobes by absorbing the sound waves so to fix this problem the cages have to be replaced with wire guard cages and turn the horn strobes up to high volume and it's kinda ironic that this is in a gym and they would be louder than in other areas but you're wrong
How am I wrong? It's quieter in the gym and I think they should be turned up to at least two of them on high volume.
@@nics-systems-electric It could be these cages that they're making it sound quieter just like taping a horn strobe to make it quiet as these aren't wire guard cages where using wire guard cages will make the horn strobe retain the same volume
@@joeycaridi3030 it's quiet mainly because they are on low volume the plastic covers do have holes in them
Didnt you do a fire drill at this school like 2 weeks ago?
Yes
@nics-systems-electric isn't that too often. I live in England and when I was in school we always had to have one in September after the 6 week holiday then we would not have another one until April time
@@ashleyshorthouse2807 we are required to do six per year and the school did not open in September as it was still under construction it did not open until after winter break and they didn't do drills for the first couple months while they settled in so they got pushed back a long ways and I still don't think they did all six
they should put the gym ones on high volume and keep some low including the main hallway ones
I doubt all of them need to be at high volume when there's that many in there probably just two of them
@@nics-systems-electric thats what im saying
At least it’s not like your high school 3030 😂
What do you mean? We don't have a 3030
@@nics-systems-electric my bad 640?
school? it looks like a housing complex
Seems very not busy for a fire drill, I would expect everyone would be trying to rush out the corridors.
Bad news: the school name was revealed of that middle school by Google Maps.
Well yes if you find the building on Google maps it will show the name
The alarm seems sinked today
synced
In the gym maybe put two of them on high, one on each side.
That's what I was thinking just two would probably be enough
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9:52 #whatafirealarmfail There is a Residental Smoke alarm in a school classroom
Nope not a fail and not even a smoke alarm lol
@@nics-systems-electric Oh I was talking about a CO Alarm
@@erikmorozov1740 still not a fail in fact it would be a fail not to be there. but if you don't know the situation you shouldn't fault the install
Hi
6:07 That's loud! it does not seem that loud
Submarine.
Throw this system out and put in an EST2.
100%
stop covering everything
I would if people wouldn't leak my location and comment where I live
nic is right
sorry if this is getting repetitive the highschool sync video will it be out soon again sorry for asking so much
No I can't make a video of something that hasn't been done we haven't been back there since the last video
@@nics-systems-electric oh ok but when do you think they will be able to get in the school??
@@ObamnaSoda513 we can't do it from the outside so yes I have to go in the school
@@nics-systems-electric no i meant like when will you guys be able to get a tech over and have you all will take a look again and fingers crossed it gets fixed
Hi