@@alexandersalarms5380 Yeah, that's what I hear, but I like them anyways. I recall the Simplex 4001 panel had FWR output, and was likely their only panel to do so. But I am aware of how FWR output can make electromechanical horns sound kind of raspy, like the Student Center at my college when they still had some of the original Standard Electric Time 450 horns in use; they had a fairly raspy sound due to running off a Notifier AFP-200 panel, which used FWR output.
When I was little, I was at a summer camp where there was a kid who pulled the alarms literally every other day. They had all of these same alarms from what I could tell from the sound.
10:37 - When I first watch this, I was not expecting that alarm to be a 4901-9822 electronic horn (I had assumed it was a 4903 series electronic horn/strobe). Also, that part of the school building (where the pull station was) reminds me of one of the stairway exits at my middle school.
@@proneczarniecki2833 sometimes it's better off just to let the system be as is. Like the way how my hs is set up. The system is very big so the owners may just leave it as the way it is. The older alarms in the school are set up to do 120 bpm while the alarms in the new section is in Code 3.
It’s an interesting looking one and it’s really cool to see work btw my advice is to use headphones or something when there’s a test at your school so it doesn’t damage your hearing
Wow. That just took me back to preschool (I'm 24 now). I hate fire alarms (being startled by them at least) and I remember the rush of anxiety any time I had to walk past those dual horns in the hallway. We used to run past them in the fear they'd go off, haha. They were effective as we used to hear them from our rowdy preschool classroom.
The sound isn't as bad as how dark that room is. You've kinda led me to a nightmare I had one time. Combine that alarm from 1:33 with the darkness of the room at 8:52 and you'll actually witness my nightmare. I have a bad phobia of certain set-frequency alarms. The rest of the lower frequency alarms just irritate me, which I'd rather have and listen to a trillion times over total fear of what sounds like many screeches and howls of demons and angry lost souls wanting to attack me in a taunting rhythm.
i remember in the school i grew up with it had alarms just like the first one u passed by and also a 3T22 fire siren that would sound off in hi lo during a fire drill
My middle school had those 4903-9101 strobe plates with the 2901 9838 horns (I’m aware that some of the horns on the strobe plates were 9806s) until they along with Siemens horn strobes and others got replaced in 2015 with Advances.
The fire alarm in my school has the truealert in the main and 800 building all doing code 3 but they sound like a car horn. In the science build we have simplex bells on simplex strobe set on multi stroke code 3
@@randomhobbiest5562 Mechanical horns are heaven compared to the piercing horns nowadays... Spectralert advances suck, there so loud and it is just a sound of a warbling "aircompresser"
@@alexandersalarms5380 though how do mechanical horns work? is there a metal piece in there with a some of copper coil that makes it vibrate or make noise?
@@randomhobbiest5562 spectralerts are literally the most confusing sound, you hear it.. people in my apartment dont even know what that sound is when it goes off..
0:40 Those were the fire alarms i had at my old elementary school, and they were also on continuous mode! My school didn’t have that type of fire alarm at 1:02. Few years ago, my elementary school did some remodeling when I was in middle school.
Looks like you've outdone yourself yet again. Awesome system, and cool mix of horns, and love how it sounds in the gym. But I've never understood why they mounted NA's so high up before ADA. Doesn't it make them harder to service?
Im guessing this system is exact to my elementary schools. Retrofitted 4100, 2901-9838s 4903-9101s, 2098-9201s on the mapnet base, and mapnet 4251s. The school also has an addition with true alerts but they're set to continues. The annunciator was a 4602-9102
Reminds me of a Catholic college in a neighboring town that's been getting rid of their Simplex systems in favor of Siemens systems, but then they switched to Notifier.
The pills aren’t addressable 4251s, they either are very early 2099-9795s with a 4251 cover, or less likely they are 9795s with the newer style cover removed and replaced with one from a 4251-20 that was there previously if the previous system before the 4100+ was a conventional Simplex system.
And it responded like a lightning bolt, not that common delay that makes the panel look just like when you load MS-DOS edit. com on something less than a 286!. (So verification mode is off) (nor like Windows 10 with a slow drive) (But the other locations seem to have that verification) Very good video!
That's a good classic simplex system, in fact, we have a system like that at our high school, but the panel is a 2120 from 1975( on continuous) , and the notification devices are mostly 2901-9838s on 4903-9101s, as well as some 450ds(on 4903-9101s), pyrotronics rebranded 34ts(also on 4903-9101s), system sensor Spectre alert p2rs(one of them is on top a disconnected 4903-9101, and some simplex 4903s(both truealerts and 1990s models). All of the pulls are simplex t bars. They're expecting a renovation to replace it :(. Also no remote strobes in the entire building
My high school has simplex 2901 9838s on 4903 9105 strobe plates there silver plated 9838s btw along with some wheelock 34ts with truealerts in the classrooms in the older part of the building on continuous. New part of the building has truealerts on code 3
trainerred206 You are correct. NFPA 72 dictates a temporal (code 3) signaling pattern. These were in a new addition recently added to the school therefore the notification appliances in this area needed to reflect current code.
Better answer: The TrueAlerts doing code-3 are SmartSync TrueAlerts wired to the SmartSync circuit, whereas the TrueAlerts doing continuous were 4-wire TrueAlerts, which were wired to the same circuit as the older horns.
Reminds me of the Student Union at my college, which has a Notifier AFP-200 system. The areas renovated in 2013-2014 have SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes that do Code 3, while the rest of the building has older electromechanical horns (Standard 450s with 90s-style Faraday strobes added, a few Faraday U-HN-MCSs and a Simplex 2901-9833 horn on a 2903 light plate) that sound on Continuous. Many of the other buildings had fire alarm system upgrades (mostly Notifier and a bit of Fire-Lite) that all do Code 3 now (SpectrAlert Advances and Wheelock Exceders.)
Cool! I didn’t know they made addressable 4251 series! The Banff Springs Hotel has a 4100 with the two stage version of these pull stations but they’re not addressable
here's the system: Simplex Truealert horn/strobes a Simplex 2901-9806 with a dual projector attached to it on 4903-9101 strobe plate. Simplex 2901-9838 horns on 4903-9101 strobe plates a Simplex 4901-9822 Simplex 4251-20's Simplex dual action pull stations Simplex 4100ES coded to continuous.
There are both 2 Wire SmartSync and 4 Wire Free Run TrueAlert Horn Strobes in this building, quite interestingly. Hence the different pitches and coding options.
SAFETECH Damn seriously so if i install this in my house and i needed to test it out but really don't want to go to the command station i cant do it over the phone
1:33 The sounds that traumatises me every time... This specific alarm I absolutely HATE with a passion! That same alarm I heard in every fire alarm is why I have a Phobia of modern fire alarms.
I always hate when they all sound a different pitch, but the C major chord at 0:42 is satisfying as hell.
Just add a G like somebody's about to get hitched! C-E-G (Wedding March introduction notes)
@@elijahvincent985 Damnit, I can hear that added G instantaneously, and can't unhear it. Musician probs lmaooo
Yay! The big long videos are back that you walks through and listen to the alarms before silencing them and then pulling them again!
That's a pretty neat mix of Simplex stuff from the early 90s to the present.
wileyk209zback
The big bad wolf drill
wileyk209zback 6
More like late 80’s but yeah.
I'm not a fan of simplex, they can't handle fwr.
@@alexandersalarms5380 Yeah, that's what I hear, but I like them anyways. I recall the Simplex 4001 panel had FWR output, and was likely their only panel to do so. But I am aware of how FWR output can make electromechanical horns sound kind of raspy, like the Student Center at my college when they still had some of the original Standard Electric Time 450 horns in use; they had a fairly raspy sound due to running off a Notifier AFP-200 panel, which used FWR output.
When I was little, I was at a summer camp where there was a kid who pulled the alarms literally every other day. They had all of these same alarms from what I could tell from the sound.
10:37 - When I first watch this, I was not expecting that alarm to be a 4901-9822 electronic horn (I had assumed it was a 4903 series electronic horn/strobe). Also, that part of the school building (where the pull station was) reminds me of one of the stairway exits at my middle school.
That’s an awesome Simplex system! Love those old mechanical horns!
Leigh Turner
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Leigh Turner Agreed!!!!
The Sinplex mechanical horns are like the Federal Signal Thunderbolts of fire alarms.
SAFETECH but they all couldn’t be programmed in code 3 and not in continuous
@@proneczarniecki2833 sometimes it's better off just to let the system be as is. Like the way how my hs is set up. The system is very big so the owners may just leave it as the way it is. The older alarms in the school are set up to do 120 bpm while the alarms in the new section is in Code 3.
11:14 perfect.
found you
I think so too
1:04 I’m not fire alarm smart at all, but I absolutely LOVE this alarm!
Same here! Nice vintage alarms!
That is a Simplex 4903-9101 strobe plate with a Simplex 2901-9838 vibrating horn with a projector
It’s an interesting looking one and it’s really cool to see work btw my advice is to use headphones or something when there’s a test at your school so it doesn’t damage your hearing
Wow. That just took me back to preschool (I'm 24 now). I hate fire alarms (being startled by them at least) and I remember the rush of anxiety any time I had to walk past those dual horns in the hallway. We used to run past them in the fear they'd go off, haha. They were effective as we used to hear them from our rowdy preschool classroom.
@@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL2901-9806 horn
8:46 I luv the sound
The sound isn't as bad as how dark that room is. You've kinda led me to a nightmare I had one time. Combine that alarm from 1:33 with the darkness of the room at 8:52 and you'll actually witness my nightmare. I have a bad phobia of certain set-frequency alarms. The rest of the lower frequency alarms just irritate me, which I'd rather have and listen to a trillion times over total fear of what sounds like many screeches and howls of demons and angry lost souls wanting to attack me in a taunting rhythm.
Judging by the way you are testing each pull by sounding and silencing the system, there was no walk mode feature on this panel?
Valtonus
There was however I had multiple areas to cover within the facility therefore I needed it to sound for longer periods.
0:11 sounds like angry cars in a traffic jam ;)
lol good one
i remember in the school i grew up with it had alarms just like the first one u passed by and also a 3T22 fire siren that would sound off in hi lo during a fire drill
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The harmonics of those alarms is amazing :o
Gotta give it to ya SAFETECH, those horns at 10:49 sounded beautiful together
My middle school had those 4903-9101 strobe plates with the 2901 9838 horns (I’m aware that some of the horns on the strobe plates were 9806s) until they along with Siemens horn strobes and others got replaced in 2015 with Advances.
trainerred206 My school has Federal Signal 450E+V1971 Horn Strobes
SimplexTech Guy9838 sounds annoying
0:05 sounds like a Trippy Free Ranged Laser Shark.
1:33 B minor chord
It sound like a UMMT/simplex truealert
it is
That is so bad ass that you can do that now on your phone. Kids will never get away with it again! LOL
The fire alarm in my school has the truealert in the main and 800 building all doing code 3 but they sound like a car horn. In the science build we have simplex bells on simplex strobe set on multi stroke code 3
Like the old mechanical horns better, the modern higher pitched ones hurt your ears.
To me macanical fire alarms sound crappy and makes them be annoying so I like high pitched and spectralert advance pitch tone even better!😀
@@randomhobbiest5562 Mechanical horns are heaven compared to the piercing horns nowadays... Spectralert advances suck, there so loud and it is just a sound of a warbling "aircompresser"
@@alexandersalarms5380 I like specter alart advances cuase the vibrating sound of it is interesting
@@alexandersalarms5380 though how do mechanical horns work? is there a metal piece in there with a some of copper coil that makes it
vibrate or make noise?
@@randomhobbiest5562 spectralerts are literally the most confusing sound, you hear it.. people in my apartment dont even know what that sound is when it goes off..
My School has all EST Genesis with EST 270-Spo or Dpo.
0:40 Those were the fire alarms i had at my old elementary school, and they were also on continuous mode! My school didn’t have that type of fire alarm at 1:02. Few years ago, my elementary school did some remodeling when I was in middle school.
Looks like you've outdone yourself yet again. Awesome system, and cool mix of horns, and love how it sounds in the gym.
But I've never understood why they mounted NA's so high up before ADA. Doesn't it make them harder to service?
Fahrenheit4051
Thanks for viewing and for your comment. The reason is as you mentioned, “pre-ADA.” Yes it definitely poses more of a challenge.
Please tell me the name of the alarm at 1:02 with the horn on the bottom of it. With the horns pointing left and right
simplex 9806 on a dual projecter light plate I have these around my school
I see bells next to the some of the horn strobes are they for class change signaling?
Most likely.
Double horns are awesome
Im guessing this system is exact to my elementary schools. Retrofitted 4100, 2901-9838s 4903-9101s, 2098-9201s on the mapnet base, and mapnet 4251s. The school also has an addition with true alerts but they're set to continues. The annunciator was a 4602-9102
3:01 Lol the mechanical Horns responded faster than the electronic one!
True Alert
1:00 that fire alarm is pretty cool with a pair of horns:)
We had those in middle school.
@@bryttafitzgibbons6901 Thats just a 2901-9838 with a dual projector.
@@dascorp23892901 9806* because of the higher pitch difference
11:14 sounds like bagpipes
1:00 2 siren electric speaker
(sounds like a washing machine motor)
Minecraft player This is a dual projector
What! No, this is not a speaker system, that is a simplex 2901 9838 with strobe plate and dual projector.
@@lukep43399806*
This is my favorite test.
I love the sound of Mechanical Horn Harmony
I noticed you where scrolling down faster trying to refresh the page with urgency in that dark auditorium lol
All of my high schools in the area used to have a simplex system, but they were replaced by semiens
Reminds me of a Catholic college in a neighboring town that's been getting rid of their Simplex systems in favor of Siemens systems, but then they switched to Notifier.
Nice video! Are those some of the real early 2099 MAPNET pulls that used the 4251 housing?
firefreak57
Yes
Yeah, they still used the 4251 housing until they introduced the newer 2099 version in 1991.
I have the conventional version of them. They're pretty cool.
Is this a Pyrotronics horn or a Federal Signal horn inside it 1:01
0:58 Sounds like a 9806.
Idk why but continous makes me think of vacuums
8:52 is the same one at my school and sounds like it
I wonder what everything on code 3 would sound like
2:12 my school had that but they r changing the alarms over the summer
They never changed them out
The 4903-9101 w/ 9838.
The alarm at 0:39 is also at my Elementary School
Thats a nice gym the school has
The pills aren’t addressable 4251s, they either are very early 2099-9795s with a 4251 cover, or less likely they are 9795s with the newer style cover removed and replaced with one from a 4251-20 that was there previously if the previous system before the 4100+ was a conventional Simplex system.
They are addressable 4251s. Model is 2099-9784
@@officialsimplexguy must have been an earlier one because there were 9784s made with a new style cover (matte finish, new Simplex logo)
@@RyansColoradoRailProductions 9795s are the ones that look like traditional 2099s. The 9784s were the older ones that looked like 4251s
At 11:14 is what church fire alarms should sound like! 🙌🏼
10:46 that's the cool thing about mechanical horns sometimes they harmonize
I wonder if the alarms are still there
Those are my favorite fire alarms
What is the app you are using and the device connected to the panel that allows it to be partially controlled from a phone?
Is it special Simplex only equipment?
Great video!
Safeman4202
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SAFETECH np!
Like I said on Instagram, awesome video!!!
SimplexTech Guy9838
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That's a bright strobe in the gym
The strobe is actually not quite as bright as you think it is. A bright strobe generally I'd say those are 110CD.
what is the name of the alarm at 1:00
The alarm is a simplex 2901-9806 horn with a dual projector with a simplex 2903 strobe plate....
Are they even hooked to any controls given they’re running steady?
And it responded like a lightning bolt, not that common delay that makes the panel look just like when you load MS-DOS edit. com on something less than a 286!. (So verification mode is off)
(nor like Windows 10 with a slow drive) (But the other locations seem to have that verification) Very good video!
So why do the old horns run continuous and the new ones are in March time er whatever it’s called
Because back then, the coding options weren't as restrictive as they are today.
The racket those alarms make should get people out of the building VERY quickly!
i like the harmony of this
1:01 HELL YEAH!!!!!
I’m on fire because I’m in hell and this is lit af
Emilyn Moonshiners was mgood you Iow a I’m &I
What do you mean that you're in hell
Love that makor 3rd at 0:45!
My school has 9838 horns. On strobe plates
1: 04 nice alarm
I own the alarm at 1:00. A Simplex 4903-9101 with a Simplex 2901-9806. It also has a double projector attachment!!
They have those at my City Hall.
How old is this building?
Pretty old original areas probably 40+
That's a good classic simplex system, in fact, we have a system like that at our high school, but the panel is a 2120 from 1975( on continuous) , and the notification devices are mostly 2901-9838s on 4903-9101s, as well as some 450ds(on 4903-9101s), pyrotronics rebranded 34ts(also on 4903-9101s), system sensor Spectre alert p2rs(one of them is on top a disconnected 4903-9101, and some simplex 4903s(both truealerts and 1990s models). All of the pulls are simplex t bars. They're expecting a renovation to replace it :(. Also no remote strobes in the entire building
My high school has simplex 2901 9838s on 4903 9105 strobe plates there silver plated 9838s btw along with some wheelock 34ts with truealerts in the classrooms in the older part of the building on continuous. New part of the building has truealerts on code 3
TrueAlerts and mechanical horns are creepy
AnythingKid123 Agreed
true
I get scared of fire alarms
the siren is a mobil directo
sounds like a mobil directo
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I don't like the the sound of the fire alarms at my school because their loud as hell
@@d64tv06 same
Same
Why do you have to key activate the fire alarms for the video why not just pull it
I really like your videos
Woah, silenced from a smartphone?!
Why were the TrueAlerts in the one section doing code-3/temporal 3 while the rest of the system was in continuous?
Gary Beltz those TrueAlerts were on a smartsync circuit, while I assume the one in the middle of all the 4903/2901s was free run.
trainerred206
You are correct. NFPA 72 dictates a temporal (code 3) signaling pattern. These were in a new addition recently added to the school therefore the notification appliances in this area needed to reflect current code.
Go find out
Better answer: The TrueAlerts doing code-3 are SmartSync TrueAlerts wired to the SmartSync circuit, whereas the TrueAlerts doing continuous were 4-wire TrueAlerts, which were wired to the same circuit as the older horns.
Reminds me of the Student Union at my college, which has a Notifier AFP-200 system. The areas renovated in 2013-2014 have SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes that do Code 3, while the rest of the building has older electromechanical horns (Standard 450s with 90s-style Faraday strobes added, a few Faraday U-HN-MCSs and a Simplex 2901-9833 horn on a 2903 light plate) that sound on Continuous. Many of the other buildings had fire alarm system upgrades (mostly Notifier and a bit of Fire-Lite) that all do Code 3 now (SpectrAlert Advances and Wheelock Exceders.)
At the beginning is that a addressable 4251-20?
Yes its an early addressable unit.
Cool! I didn’t know they made addressable 4251 series! The Banff Springs Hotel has a 4100 with the two stage version of these pull stations but they’re not addressable
Wow
yes it is a 2099-9781, essentially a 4251-20 with a mapnet1 module
@@trainknightt yep
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What school and what state is this at
America
Awesome! Can't wait to see more!
Frank Dougherty
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that one i think is a mechanical horn alarm at our school is annoying i get scared of it i like this horn though
Only takes 3 years to send a silence command to the panel
Cool system though
I always wanted to know what the ones on 1:00 sound like.
Personally, I think the projectors are much better amplifying the sound on the horns.
here's the system:
Simplex Truealert horn/strobes
a Simplex 2901-9806 with a dual projector attached to it on 4903-9101 strobe plate.
Simplex 2901-9838 horns on 4903-9101 strobe plates
a Simplex 4901-9822
Simplex 4251-20's
Simplex dual action pull stations
Simplex 4100ES coded to continuous.
Nope, wrong. Those pull stations are 2099-9784 addressable pull stations. They’re not 4251-20s
There are both 2 Wire SmartSync and 4 Wire Free Run TrueAlert Horn Strobes in this building, quite interestingly. Hence the different pitches and coding options.
Nice System very cool that you can silence it with your phone
How much are these because 1 for my brother to wake up 2 for my mom's new home
Troy Pulcifer They are on average $30 on ebay. I would stay away from Truealerts though.
@@NoahDoane Because you might get a smartsync or truealert es
@@any123-og Yes, that's the reason.
My school has 4906’s
Same
Its sounds blyat to my ears
Was it after school or during
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School was not in session.
If you look at the date on his iPhone screen it said it was in July of this year
Fire Drill
This simplex fire alarm has perfect pitch the key of C and B
Deafening 9806 with projector at the start.
Introducing the producer feet.
0:07
Now that’s rare 1:00
wait theres an app to control these things if so whats the name of it
Daniel Webb
The software & it’s equipment are proprietary. Only for use by field employees those of which are involved in inspections.
SAFETECH Damn seriously so if i install this in my house and i needed to test it out but really don't want to go to the command station i cant do it over the phone
@@danielwebb8315 A centralized alarm system is massively overkill for residences, anyways.
1:33 The sounds that traumatises me every time... This specific alarm I absolutely HATE with a passion! That same alarm I heard in every fire alarm is why I have a Phobia of modern fire alarms.
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Fire Alarm Enthusiast
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😳 oh shit my headphones
1:01 was nice
They're all LOUD!!!!!!!!
Erik the Pirate they are supposed to get your attention of an emergency of a fire alarm
Very loud.
@@Ultimate2T22 Fire Alarms are Loud They scared me to death and I jumped like a kangaroo.
They are supposed to be very loud what do you expect
I don’t care about fire alarm and I’m still getting my simplex fire alarm is so loud
1:32 Harmony