👍🏼 Great Video and Great Work! Thanks from a rapidly aging former electrician. I mostly focused on commercial fire alarm work and public safety communications work, but take keen interest in current day tech trends. Thanks!
Imagine doing this in a building built in 1893! I helped install phones and data in my high school up to 2foot thick concrete walls in some places with a ton of the original infrastructure still in place! They are doing the second modernization the next two years.
Now those are some really really OLD emergency lights. The elementary school I attended which was built in 1966 had those exact same units and (while their power draw was massive compared to today's LEDs) the lamps on them were just blinding whenever the power went out. They lit up the room like nothing you would see today. Only problem is is that they'd die after 2 hours and I think most of today's are rated to run at least 4 hrs or so. Interesting that the original heads from 64 were retained on that first Ready-Lite Unit and that the remaining original 60's units were kept as long as they were as my elementary school replaced both units and heads in 1993. Thanks Nic, this was a real treat. Now I add Epe limited as a vintage emergency light manufacturer as I've been dying to know for decades who made these. Be sure and save some of those cool old metal light heads; with the right power source and mounting they'd look super sweet on your scooter or make great fog lights on your car or bike.
55:44 - 🤣 57:55 - Parallel gives you more mAh capacity so that makes sense... Those 4 packs in parallel definitely put out more mAh than the original pack from the 1960s! 58:33 - I have one of those keys, too. Plus a switch. From back in the days when the worst trouble students got into was flicking off the lights. 😆 59:13 - As I had originally assumed, those are 6v tractor headlamp bulbs. Quite robust, in fact they have to be in a high-vibration application. The "fun" part about electrical/alarm/data troubleshooting in a building that has had multiple renovations and/or additions, is never knowing if the conduit/cable you're chasing suddenly terminates with nothing at the other end! Good catch on the sprinkler pipe hangers... Time to get that addressed!
Those bulbs are so expensive! We do install them however not everywhere we will usually just use them in difficult areas such as stairwell lighting if it's high ceiling or tall corredors, atrium, etc.
direct wire bulbs are good till the next guy doesnt realize they are direct wire. gets half the bulb in the tombstone, grazes the other end against the housing. boom. we had to remove 200+ direct wire fixtures due to that at our facility
@@harveylong5878 we have to mark our fixtures with a sticker that comes with the bulbs letting the next guy know what is there it can become a mess with technically altering the fixture voiding the CSA approval as well
It's pretty good will definitely meet requirements emergency lighting doesn't have to be that bright I'm sure if you were to take a light metre you would find it is OK especially now
1:17 single station? 2:10 that's a regulator vent, and needs to discharge outdoors. 2:55 "stick this to a pipe somewhere." I like your channel Nic, and love watching your adventures, but if you're not sure where to bond a gas pipe, please leave it to a gasfitter. don't bond gas-to-gas. they have a mechanical connection. you need to bond the ground to the building ground. 5:44 the trick is to use flush-cutters.
We always have to bond the gas it doesn't seem to be something the gas fitters do themselves I was referring to it didn't matter on that pipe where it was bonded it just had to be bonded somewhere on it I didn't mean wherever as in wherever in general
2:10 I'm not a HV AC technician or anything but I'm pretty sure that's a gas regulator I think that it takes higher pressure gas and reduces it to a more manageable PSI.
Yeah, that's definitely it. I filmed this a while ago and asked our heating boiler guy and he explained a bunch of the equipment I had questions about.
I don't know what it is about American electrics (which earthing/grounding comes under)..... I'm glad you got clarification on where it had to be installed but that wouldn't be allowed in the UK - Over here you're not really supposed to have a bare earth that could (potentially) alter the potential of the other things it could come into contact with if there was a fault (and cause a shock risk, there have been cases of too much bonding causing just that, although some is definitely needed), you're making a joint in the earth (which aren't even allowed at termination points, for example if we were bonding both gas and water on the same cable it would need to be continous, looping through one before going to the other) and our bonding has to be done as close to the point it enters the property as possible (you want to minimise the part of the pipework that's between any outside potential and the earth).
Recommendation, all it takes is something to go wrong and you can be very much injured, paralytic or dead. Wear a full fall arrest system when going up, and tie down the ladder if you can. Even if OSHA say it's not required for less then 24 feet. I'm a lineman in Argentina (here, if you go up to 6 feet you need to have someone watching and 16 feet you need the fall harness). Have seen severe injuries at 10 feet. Be safe.
for sure. We don't require it in many places, they only require it if working on a lift platform like boom lift or bucket truck you don't even require it on scissor lift.
Wait wait wait. So, you said in a video that you are in 11th grade. So you are 16-17 years old. So, if you have been doing this for a few years, and one of your videos that is 3 years old was filmed after you started doing that, when did you start working for the school district? 13-14 years old?!! Wow, that really is impressive. Edit : Btw i love the fact that you post every single day. It takes some dedication to make 7 vids a week, and work, and do school at the SAME TIME!
I'm 17 and yes have them around with the school district guys for a while. Usually I post every Saturday and Wednesday and extra videos on Monday if there are any. last week there was a whole bunch of extra so a little more than normal
Hey Nic great video, i see some of the emergency lights are plugged into an outlet, I've seen that before in older buildings i guess that is grandfathered in? Is that out of code now in New construction or is it still common? Its interesting how emergency lighting can be installed in different ways 🙂
@@nics-systems-electricyeah it's interesting I've seen that here in America too, I remember an old office building I worked in years ago had big box emergency lights just plugged into an outlet with an electric wall clock also plugged into the same outlet go figure lolol🙂
Separately from the rest where I gave you a hard time - from a 20y JM electrician: 1) ALWAYS wear eye protection when changing lamps 2) cut-resistant gloves are always a good idea too. I'll explain for both - I've had tons of fluorescent tubes shatter in my hands. I've also had the ends break off of them without warning, leaving me 3 pieces. but there's nothing more unpleasant than being showered in flakes of glass and phosphors. Wearing safety glasses could literally save your eyesight.
29:29 That was funny when you told the electrician that you work with all the time that you used to get in so much trouble in that room during lunch. The funniest part is when he was like “Whyyyy?”, I am not sure if I want to put his name in the comments even know you mention his name a lot in videos when your with him.
Lol there definitely used to be a lot of trouble in that room I don't think it matters if you put his name in I'm not over sharing it but I'm not hiding it either I don't think he cares
I have a few more videos from this week during spring break, and in the future I will try and make more of this sort of video, though it is difficult nearly impossible when there are students and teachers in the schools and they have changed our hours of work, so it makes it much more difficult
The sprinkler pipes down there do look sketchy, I think a plumber should take awareness to that to prevent future pipe burst, also with the sprinkler pipe being that low, it seems kinda scary being near it because the high water pressure in them
Yeah I told the plumber and it will be fixed I might have to go down there with him to show him. as far as being around the sprinkler pipe there's nothing to be afraid of there's no different than any other plumbing other than a larger volume of water it's the same pressure as the water you flush your toilets with and wash your hands with Which in my case is around 75 psi
@@DjResR these guys will be a little hotter than T12's since they are T8's I find the thinner the bulb the hotter they get T5's are the worse for being hot but the worst are the little PL's those things do get hot
@@nics-systems-electric Yeah these are a little bit warmer, looked thicker in the box. Those 26W and 42W compacts are the hottest of all and heats up fast too._
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You get this, I get this: “03 JUN 2023 16:17 *TRB QUEUE WEST STAIRWELL 2ND FL SMK/ION TRB 001 OF 001” 😢😢😢 And I’ve gotta get a fire watch going yeahhhh me! I’m not paid enough for this and all bcuz I said I’d cover for an employee on vacation. Now me the HVAC engineer is on the case lord help us all LOL I’d send a pic and a vid but I don’t know how!
The hangers for that pipe were really sketch, I wouldnt want to touch that pipe unless the whole sprinkler system was discharged and drained even though thats probably really unnecessary to do.
I hope you become a full-time electrician. Also I've been thinking about your insane Outh of Secret. It is so insane, I can't get any of your schools on Google Maps. Did you pay them to not show your schools?
Yeah, that problem has happened in that gym before they should really have double bolts on the ready rod or Loctite, or both to prevent this from the vibrations of people in the gym
that school almost as bad as our one property. so many years of butchery, hacking, fabricobbled just make sh-t work crap done. takes forever to chase down a working isolation valve. figuring wtf any number of the rats nest of buried j boxes, underground splices in sandwich baggies full of silicone are is enough to drive a guy (me) to drink
👍🏼 Great Video and Great Work! Thanks from a rapidly aging former electrician.
I mostly focused on commercial fire alarm work and public safety communications work, but take keen interest in current day tech trends.
Thanks!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
Nic your knowledge of all this stuff is just astounding! You always impress me
Thanks there's always more to learn
@nics-systems-electric true but for your age your years ahead
Take old huge light bulbs with you very important because it was vintage for history of school.
Imagine doing this in a building built in 1893! I helped install phones and data in my high school up to 2foot thick concrete walls in some places with a ton of the original infrastructure still in place! They are doing the second modernization the next two years.
Yes! We have done data and VoIP upgrades in a lot of our schools built over pretty wide time periods
I love electric fixing! 😊❤ and installs great work bro!
Now those are some really really OLD emergency lights. The elementary school I attended which was built in 1966 had those exact same units and (while their power draw was massive compared to today's LEDs) the lamps on them were just blinding whenever the power went out. They lit up the room like nothing you would see today. Only problem is is that they'd die after 2 hours and I think most of today's are rated to run at least 4 hrs or so. Interesting that the original heads from 64 were retained on that first Ready-Lite Unit and that the remaining original 60's units were kept as long as they were as my elementary school replaced both units and heads in 1993. Thanks Nic, this was a real treat. Now I add Epe limited as a vintage emergency light manufacturer as I've been dying to know for decades who made these. Be sure and save some of those cool old metal light heads; with the right power source and mounting they'd look super sweet on your scooter or make great fog lights on your car or bike.
Excellent improvement in school than old features or old fashion design. 😊
You are really consistent with posting. Love the vids ❤
Thank you. Lately has been a little extra, but I do post every Saturday and Wednesday and often times if there's an extra video on Monday
55:44 - 🤣
57:55 - Parallel gives you more mAh capacity so that makes sense... Those 4 packs in parallel definitely put out more mAh than the original pack from the 1960s!
58:33 - I have one of those keys, too. Plus a switch. From back in the days when the worst trouble students got into was flicking off the lights. 😆
59:13 - As I had originally assumed, those are 6v tractor headlamp bulbs. Quite robust, in fact they have to be in a high-vibration application.
The "fun" part about electrical/alarm/data troubleshooting in a building that has had multiple renovations and/or additions, is never knowing if the conduit/cable you're chasing suddenly terminates with nothing at the other end!
Good catch on the sprinkler pipe hangers... Time to get that addressed!
In Germany there are only like LED lamps on the celling and there are really tiny
And the video is great 👍
I think the school should just put LED Ballast bypass bulbs in and take the Ballast completely out of the equation!
Those bulbs are so expensive! We do install them however not everywhere we will usually just use them in difficult areas such as stairwell lighting if it's high ceiling or tall corredors, atrium, etc.
Oh yeah, I forgot you live in Canada, so it might be more expensive there, I have no idea how Canada works as far as currency goes lol
direct wire bulbs are good till the next guy doesnt realize they are direct wire. gets half the bulb in the tombstone, grazes the other end against the housing. boom. we had to remove 200+ direct wire fixtures due to that at our facility
@@harveylong5878 we have to mark our fixtures with a sticker that comes with the bulbs letting the next guy know what is there it can become a mess with technically altering the fixture voiding the CSA approval as well
Good morning @@nics-systems-electric
Why are your videos so interesting? I’m doing the wrong kind of work.
Glad you enjoy
I have worked for a catholic high school for 43 years I have done it all and seen it all in regards to matainance
47:06 i enjoyed every second of this
Amen I watched that portion more than any other portion of the video lol
Need more emergency lights for sure
It's pretty good will definitely meet requirements emergency lighting doesn't have to be that bright I'm sure if you were to take a light metre you would find it is OK especially now
1:17 single station?
2:10 that's a regulator vent, and needs to discharge outdoors.
2:55 "stick this to a pipe somewhere." I like your channel Nic, and love watching your adventures, but if you're not sure where to bond a gas pipe, please leave it to a gasfitter. don't bond gas-to-gas. they have a mechanical connection. you need to bond the ground to the building ground.
5:44 the trick is to use flush-cutters.
We always have to bond the gas it doesn't seem to be something the gas fitters do themselves I was referring to it didn't matter on that pipe where it was bonded it just had to be bonded somewhere on it I didn't mean wherever as in wherever in general
2:10 I'm not a HV AC technician or anything but I'm pretty sure that's a gas regulator I think that it takes higher pressure gas and reduces it to a more manageable PSI.
Yeah, that's definitely it. I filmed this a while ago and asked our heating boiler guy and he explained a bunch of the equipment I had questions about.
@@nics-systems-electric
Nice
I don't know what it is about American electrics (which earthing/grounding comes under).....
I'm glad you got clarification on where it had to be installed but that wouldn't be allowed in the UK - Over here you're not really supposed to have a bare earth that could (potentially) alter the potential of the other things it could come into contact with if there was a fault (and cause a shock risk, there have been cases of too much bonding causing just that, although some is definitely needed), you're making a joint in the earth (which aren't even allowed at termination points, for example if we were bonding both gas and water on the same cable it would need to be continous, looping through one before going to the other) and our bonding has to be done as close to the point it enters the property as possible (you want to minimise the part of the pipework that's between any outside potential and the earth).
Recommendation, all it takes is something to go wrong and you can be very much injured, paralytic or dead. Wear a full fall arrest system when going up, and tie down the ladder if you can. Even if OSHA say it's not required for less then 24 feet. I'm a lineman in Argentina (here, if you go up to 6 feet you need to have someone watching and 16 feet you need the fall harness).
Have seen severe injuries at 10 feet.
Be safe.
for sure. We don't require it in many places, they only require it if working on a lift platform like boom lift or bucket truck you don't even require it on scissor lift.
Wait wait wait. So, you said in a video that you are in 11th grade. So you are 16-17 years old. So, if you have been doing this for a few years, and one of your videos that is 3 years old was filmed after you started doing that, when did you start working for the school district? 13-14 years old?!! Wow, that really is impressive.
Edit : Btw i love the fact that you post every single day. It takes some dedication to make 7 vids a week, and work, and do school at the SAME TIME!
I'm 17 and yes have them around with the school district guys for a while. Usually I post every Saturday and Wednesday and extra videos on Monday if there are any. last week there was a whole bunch of extra so a little more than normal
Hey Nic great video, i see some of the emergency lights are plugged into an outlet, I've seen that before in older buildings i guess that is grandfathered in? Is that out of code now in New construction or is it still common? Its interesting how emergency lighting can be installed in different ways 🙂
We still do that here with them just plugged into receptacle seems weird I know
@@nics-systems-electricyeah it's interesting I've seen that here in America too, I remember an old office building I worked in years ago had big box emergency lights just plugged into an outlet with an electric wall clock also plugged into the same outlet go figure lolol🙂
Great video where are you from
What's with the domestic looking smoke/heat detector what is in a commercial boiler plant room?
CO detector
Thanks@@nics-systems-electric
Separately from the rest where I gave you a hard time - from a 20y JM electrician:
1) ALWAYS wear eye protection when changing lamps
2) cut-resistant gloves are always a good idea too.
I'll explain for both - I've had tons of fluorescent tubes shatter in my hands. I've also had the ends break off of them without warning, leaving me 3 pieces. but there's nothing more unpleasant than being showered in flakes of glass and phosphors. Wearing safety glasses could literally save your eyesight.
Yeah I've had my fair share break on me too definitely not a bad idea to wear them
Have you ever had a time where you were changing the fluorescent light bulbs and the socket breaks on you?
Lots of times lol we call them tombstones
You need a mechanics creeper down in that crawl space
29:29 That was funny when you told the electrician that you work with all the time that you used to get in so much trouble in that room during lunch. The funniest part is when he was like “Whyyyy?”, I am not sure if I want to put his name in the comments even know you mention his name a lot in videos when your with him.
Lol there definitely used to be a lot of trouble in that room I don't think it matters if you put his name in I'm not over sharing it but I'm not hiding it either I don't think he cares
@@nics-systems-electric Isn’t his name Jamie?
@@IanGSully yes
Any concerns about accelerated corrosion on the bare copper conductor touching the steel readyrod/unistrut?
Can you do more videos of these if you can?
Yeah I love these videos too
Same
I have a few more videos from this week during spring break, and in the future I will try and make more of this sort of video, though it is difficult nearly impossible when there are students and teachers in the schools and they have changed our hours of work, so it makes it much more difficult
What's the recommended replacement interval for the emergency light batteries and the lights themselves?
Some manufacturers seem to give their own specs, though in general 3 to 5 years sealed lead acid batteries need replacing
Nic did you see the videos of my apartment fire alarms I thought they went off for no reason the 1st one someone pulled it but the next one was test
Yes
So basically without that center beam that entire room would collapse?
Yes
Why change non burned out bulbs? Seems like they could still be good for years
Less light output and higher current demand so less runtime
Hello friend nic
What does bonding do?
Bonding the gas pipe to the electrical ground to ensure it does not become energized
The sprinkler pipes down there do look sketchy, I think a plumber should take awareness to that to prevent future pipe burst, also with the sprinkler pipe being that low, it seems kinda scary being near it because the high water pressure in them
Yeah I told the plumber and it will be fixed I might have to go down there with him to show him. as far as being around the sprinkler pipe there's nothing to be afraid of there's no different than any other plumbing other than a larger volume of water it's the same pressure as the water you flush your toilets with and wash your hands with Which in my case is around 75 psi
I think it’s red with my iPad screen that emergency light😂😂😂😂
how do you pull those hot bulbs out without gloves?
They're not hot just can't be a sissy about it
Only the ends get little bit hot, the mid part of the T12 tube is pretty manageable, although these green cap tubes are prone to mercury starvation._
@@DjResR these guys will be a little hotter than T12's since they are T8's I find the thinner the bulb the hotter they get T5's are the worse for being hot but the worst are the little PL's those things do get hot
@@nics-systems-electric Yeah these are a little bit warmer, looked thicker in the box. Those 26W and 42W compacts are the hottest of all and heats up fast too._
@@DjResR the 42s are real bad lol
25:53 I haven’t seen that one before
Hi am big fan of u do a rally good job on here mate am a big fan of u do a rally good job on here mate how are u ok mate keep up there good work on here and I hop we can be friendswith u mate fe u can let me know fe we can be friends with u mate u do a really good job on here keep up there good work
You get this, I get this:
“03 JUN 2023 16:17
*TRB QUEUE
WEST STAIRWELL 2ND FL SMK/ION
TRB 001 OF 001”
😢😢😢
And I’ve gotta get a fire watch going yeahhhh me! I’m not paid enough for this and all bcuz I said I’d cover for an employee on vacation. Now me the HVAC engineer is on the case lord help us all LOL
I’d send a pic and a vid but I don’t know how!
I just realized the date is wrong on this thing too! LOL
I would hate to be the one to crawl under the stands like that that looks uncomfortable
don't tell Hayden there's a crazy Nic
The hangers for that pipe were really sketch, I wouldnt want to touch that pipe unless the whole sprinkler system was discharged and drained even though thats probably really unnecessary to do.
It will be shut down for that zone once it comes time to fix it in case it gives out might not be drained but at least it won't continue flowing
@nics-systems-electric Yeah residual water that comes out of the pipe is better than high pressure water still flowing.
57:39
I would be so tempted to
I hope you become a full-time electrician. Also I've been thinking about your insane Outh of Secret. It is so insane, I can't get any of your schools on Google Maps. Did you pay them to not show your schools?
It's not impossible to find I just try and keep it private because people like to find them and find my address and then make it public
Is it a burglary or terrorism issue if the IP address and location is leaked?
@@nics-systems-electric I replied to you earlier, what is the answer to the question?
@@Corwin09-ji8sx no it's just frustrating dealing with people that try and leak your address
What happened at 43:38 ?
Moving through the crawlspace
@@nics-systems-electric you went quiet
this man needs to invest in a gopro
Used to have one but sold it the low light isn't good battery isn't that good and I'd look insane if I had that at work lol
nice find on the pipe hangers the was sketch af
Yeah, that problem has happened in that gym before they should really have double bolts on the ready rod or Loctite, or both to prevent this from the vibrations of people in the gym
that school almost as bad as our one property. so many years of butchery, hacking, fabricobbled just make sh-t work crap done. takes forever to chase down a working isolation valve. figuring wtf any number of the rats nest of buried j boxes, underground splices in sandwich baggies full of silicone are is enough to drive a guy (me) to drink