FYI the last few pics aren’t fails Songs used: Syn Cole - Feel Good [NCS Release], RetroVision - Puzzle [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds
I found a few (6) fire alarm (and related) fails at my university. 1: In the second floor of the residence hall I live in, it’s a Gentex GX-90-S mini horn/strobe with the strobe broken off and set on top of the back box. One of the wires is also damaged, so no chance the strobe will flash, 2: In my residence hall in another dorm on my floor, a Gentex GX90 mini sounder is painted over completely. The one in my room appears to have been painted on the edges at one point, but someone miraculously scraped the paint off! 3: In the science and engineering building, a System Sensor SCWL strobe is falling off the ceiling in the 4th floor hallway. 4: This is an exit sign in on my floor in the residence hall, with the arrow facing the wrong way. 5: The chapel building on the campus is full of FCI-rebranded Faraday/Cerberus multi-tone horns, (the ones with the magnifier on the strobe lens) and they’re all painted white! 6: The most blatant fail is in the main student center building. It’s one of those fire doors on a track that closes like a curtain, but it has a giant 100 pound directory sign, and a tripod stand, placed in front of it. I pushed on the sign, and found that it moved with a little force, but I doubt the door would be strong enough to push it out of the way. The sign is also near a pull station, (FCI MS2) so someone might not see the pull station depending on their perspective. Fire alarm systems on our campus include mostly older FCI panels (my residence hall likely has an FCI 7200) and newer Gamewell-FCI E3 series panels, (some with voice, some with horns) with mostly System Sensor devices and some Gentex here and there. Pulls installed these days are BG12s. Older devices include Faraday 6120s and the early 90s Faraday multi tone horns, and FCI MS2 pulls. They also include Simplex LifeAlarms and 4251-20 pulls, somehow running on one of the new Gamewell-FCI E3 panels! We do have a GE EST3 voice evac in the library/study hall facility, and an unknown Simplex voice evac in a brand new on-campus apartment facility.
I have just watched this on UA-cam for the first time today. Please do more of these "exit" and "fire alarm fail" videos. I miss seeing these on the Wheelove Fire Alarm and Elevator channel on UA-cam.
Well I’m only going to post the fails I find and maybe some that my friend finds. As well as having to amass enough photos to make a 3 minute video. But sure there will be more
The one with the retrofit of the 2903 light or strobe plate isn’t technically a fail since it doesn’t affect the functionality of the alarm. Cool video though, I’d love to see more
i was at in the game peabody on wednesday and in yhe firebesaoe stairwell i was on tue because you gonupnthat way when u olay laswr tag i found a pull station that was blocked
@@The09creeper the ones which are retrofitted, some devices which are on the ceiling, the strobe doesnt get affected, if painted, only mechanical horns get affected and sometimes speakers
@@dutchwolf2675 while some alarms like the advance and rs, the strobe has the correct output but the fire lettering is not meant to be read from the ceiling. Witch makes me still think it a fail
@@dutchwolf2675well unfortunately for you a classic horn strobe on the ceiling is a fail because the wall mounts have a strobe specifically for facing the area. If it was a remote horn there wouldn't be a problem.
Those are some crazy fails!
Some of them are pretty funny
I honestly thought the painted and retrofitted would lead to duel strobes for fire drills and such.
I found a few (6) fire alarm (and related) fails at my university.
1: In the second floor of the residence hall I live in, it’s a Gentex GX-90-S mini horn/strobe with the strobe broken off and set on top of the back box. One of the wires is also damaged, so no chance the strobe will flash,
2: In my residence hall in another dorm on my floor, a Gentex GX90 mini sounder is painted over completely. The one in my room appears to have been painted on the edges at one point, but someone miraculously scraped the paint off!
3: In the science and engineering building, a System Sensor SCWL strobe is falling off the ceiling in the 4th floor hallway.
4: This is an exit sign in on my floor in the residence hall, with the arrow facing the wrong way.
5: The chapel building on the campus is full of FCI-rebranded Faraday/Cerberus multi-tone horns, (the ones with the magnifier on the strobe lens) and they’re all painted white!
6: The most blatant fail is in the main student center building. It’s one of those fire doors on a track that closes like a curtain, but it has a giant 100 pound directory sign, and a tripod stand, placed in front of it. I pushed on the sign, and found that it moved with a little force, but I doubt the door would be strong enough to push it out of the way. The sign is also near a pull station, (FCI MS2) so someone might not see the pull station depending on their perspective.
Fire alarm systems on our campus include mostly older FCI panels (my residence hall likely has an FCI 7200) and newer Gamewell-FCI E3 series panels, (some with voice, some with horns) with mostly System Sensor devices and some Gentex here and there. Pulls installed these days are BG12s. Older devices include Faraday 6120s and the early 90s Faraday multi tone horns, and FCI MS2 pulls. They also include Simplex LifeAlarms and 4251-20 pulls, somehow running on one of the new Gamewell-FCI E3 panels! We do have a GE EST3 voice evac in the library/study hall facility, and an unknown Simplex voice evac in a brand new on-campus apartment facility.
The simplex voice evac is probably a 4010es
I found a Simplex T bar with a broken T handle this year in Iowa.
I have just watched this on UA-cam for the first time today. Please do more of these "exit" and "fire alarm fail" videos. I miss seeing these on the Wheelove Fire Alarm and Elevator channel on UA-cam.
Well I’m only going to post the fails I find and maybe some that my friend finds. As well as having to amass enough photos to make a 3 minute video. But sure there will be more
My school's EST3 panel is in the trouble state like every other day lol. #whatafirealarmfail
The one with the retrofit of the 2903 light or strobe plate isn’t technically a fail since it doesn’t affect the functionality of the alarm.
Cool video though, I’d love to see more
Well is still is a spicy retrofit
Levator
I’ll say at least some of the 9838s still stand
The majority of the strobe plates have their original horns
@@The09creeper nice
May I ask how you imported the music? and LOL
I downloaded it as an mp3 and imported it into IMovie
@@The09creeper I knew it was something related to that, thank you!
Np
1:22 this is at the Palm Beach Gardens Mall, right?
Yes
0:42 OMG What?!!? 😲
It’s very common to find wall mounted alarms on the ceiling
@@The09creeperDon't they need to fix that?
Omg it’s Bogi’s white twenty nine oh treez
What?
@@The09creeperits a joke about some weird bogi curse thing lol
@@BayMinette_AlarmsI thought it was about the 2902s
a retrofit aint a fail. aint nun wrong wit dat. all it is is two different brands mounted together.
1:24 bro that looks disgusting I’m not even a fire alarm enthusiast and even that is bothering me
What they should have done is either remove the light plate or at least use a horn only
@@The09creeperor they could of bought a normal 12V industrial mechanical horn since they are still being produced, just not in red.
i was at in the game peabody on wednesday and in yhe firebesaoe stairwell i was on tue because you gonupnthat way when u olay laswr tag i found a pull station that was blocked
1:22 its not a real white 2903?
Still not ok.
It is not really white as it exactly matches the walls
They can pull it then reset its bad
Some of them are not fails
Which ones?
@@The09creeper the ones which are retrofitted, some devices which are on the ceiling, the strobe doesnt get affected, if painted, only mechanical horns get affected and sometimes speakers
@@dutchwolf2675 while some alarms like the advance and rs, the strobe has the correct output but the fire lettering is not meant to be read from the ceiling. Witch makes me still think it a fail
@@dutchwolf2675well unfortunately for you a classic horn strobe on the ceiling is a fail because the wall mounts have a strobe specifically for facing the area. If it was a remote horn there wouldn't be a problem.
Um #whatafirealarmfail
Dead hashtag.
@@jaredthompson3011 whatever