My K-8 school had the single-tone Simplex horns, as did the high school we went to in another town. In high school, we used bells to indicate time to change class, and we had to rely on the sound of the bells in the hallway... Nearly half of the classroom clocks didn't keep proper time, and often failed HOURLY synchronization from the master clock. (SIDENOTE: I graduated in 1996, in '94 we installed a computer in the video productions room to broadcast an analog clock face onto one in-school CATV channel. The "clock generator board" was made by Bogen, so we affectionately called it "BogenTime." As of 2023, that system is STILL in use for classroom timekeeping! The 486DX/2 running DOS 6.22, and the clock generator board itself have, of course, been replaced with newer versions of same, but "BogenTime" still exists at my alma mater!) I once worked for a casino that had a voice annunciation alert. In a building with 30-foot high ceilings, even on an empty gaming floor at 3 AM, all you could hear is two ascending "whoops" followed by an odd noise that MIGHT be a human voice making unintelligible noises, on a repeating loop. Looking up at the ceiling, I saw the flashing strobes, and I understood what the noises were supposed to be. And I thought to myself, "how is any human being supposed to know what that alarm means?" It was only during evacuation that I got close to a speaker/strobe head in a hallway and heard "An emergency has been reported in this building. Please leave the building at the nearest exit." And the crowd of chattering employees heading toward the exit was louder than the speaker! It would be completely useless in a packed-to-the-gills casino with a live musical act performing. Hence why their Security is also supposed to coordinate evacuation, no way anybody will hear the tinny voice announcement, or even see tiny little white strobes WAAAAAY up on the ceiling. Obviously, the casino can't use bells, since slot machines ring bells, and everyone would be desensitized to that particular sound, so I'm not sure what better option there could be for them. And back when the machines dispensed coins, a bomb could go off and nobody would hear it over bells ringing, coins clanging, people complaining their bus leaves in three minutes and the machine didn't have enough quarters in it for them to cash out $400 right at the very last moment... 🤣
@@dashcamandy2242 My middle/high school was literally the exact opposite. We had a tone that was played over the loud speakers instead of actual bells. These worked properly until an elementary school closed and got consolidated into another, the middle school became 4-7, and the high school became 8-12. The schedules of both schools(which are in two halves of the same building) both shifted and after that point the bells were only somewhat on schedule. There'd always be confusing bells that would go off midway through classes, either erroneous bells leaking through from the middle school or holdovers from the old schedule. To my knowledge this issue was never resolved. On the subject of clocks, I'm afraid I have little of note. The schools didn't have a central clock, all the clocks were just regular AA battery Edwards wall clocks hanging on a screw. As for fire alarms, we had a full EST voice evac system(the building was renovated in 2012). We had white ceiling mount speaker strobes and SIGA-278 pull stations.
With the background music, beat-synchronized cuts, amazing b-roll, effects, and the artistic use of focus-shifting in shots with a very shallow depth-of-field, I cannot help but wonder if you've expanding your talents into video production. Very snazzy, I like it! 2:56 - My mild OCD approves! 3:10 - Not gonna lie, the shot of that vintage Edwards pull station in the thumbnail is what caught my eye. Looks pretty dang good for its age, too! 3:58 - The kids are thinking, "Oh jeez, that's Nic again, setting off the fire alarms!" 🤣 4:51 - One of the gongs sounds a bit loose maybe? 10:15 - Oooh, also a vintage "Save Energy" switch plate sticker! Now all I need to win "Vintage Item Bingo" is a "Mr. Yuck" sticker. Can you duck into the nurse's station for a sec? lol I'm not gonna laugh at you for crashing your drone. I wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to operate one! 👴
Yeah I just thought I would try and put a little more effort into the intro of this one and see if people enjoyed it which they seem to have so I will try and put more production value into the videos in the future
@@nics-systems-electric good job fixing it but when the alarms went off last week again thats an uh oh but on april 12th my school fire alarms went off because the oven was over heated and started smoking
Nic, your videos are the best fire alarm videos on CZcams. I like the sounds of the alarms (the bells in this video), and the horns in your other videos
tho it is intresting sense iv never seen fire alarms that use bells our schools all had a steady always on tone they didnt even beep it was just a steady buzz. and this is that school you repaird tbhe modual in if i recal right iw atched that one a few days ago when i found youyr channel
What??? Nooooo!! It's such a beautiful sounding system. Well if you must can I have one of the 1964 Durabels? It's the one I grew up with and would love to have it in my homemade system. 😥
Interesting thing i've noticed is is that in Ontario; the bells in rooms are usually 6 inch while the ones located in halls and places such as shops are 10".
@@IanGSully funny you ask that it doesn't have a brand it's a mixture of parts that some guy threw together in the 80s and took random parts he had from all different elevators and created this one this year Richmond elevator installed a new controller
@@nics-systems-electric So at this point it is basically a Richmond Elevator then? Even know none of the other parts are Richmond Elevator. And I also want to ask, does that elevator have a 3 speed door?
Near 1:50 there was an old 120vac adaptahorn. Was that with the old 6500 system or an even older non-existent system? Also, the county maintenance office for my school district (after a few months of communication) has decided to give me alarm parts from a 4100U system that is being replaced with an EST IO1000.
Those adaptor horns are part of the Bell system for class change which was disconnected a couple years ago they were still in use when I went to the school
@@nics-systems-electric I wonder if that's what my middle school had for class change bells when I went there? In the halls they had bells and in the portables but the classrooms for the 6th and 7th graders had buzzers hidden behind a plate in the wall above the doors. In 8th grade we got the portables and the others used to be jealous of us in the hot weather because they had air conditioning.
@@SOU6900 My high school had the same setup as yours with the class change over the PA system but for fire alarms they had Simplex 4903-9838 horns on strobe plates. Not sure of the system and pulls though. The middle school got a complete makeover shortly after I left and they now have the tones over the PA for class changes not sure about the FA system though.
When I attended school here in BC in the 1980's those gray Adaptahorns were "always" used as the class change bells. While the Edwards 10" Durabels were almost always the fire alarm. When I graduated in the 90's though they were starting to gradually phase the mechanical "horns" out for a more modern "chime" or tone over the PA system.
the school district that i went to as a kid every school had ink on the backs of the handles of ever pull station so if a studen pulled the station they could find out who did it and basicly punish them and it was a very potent type of ink that would stain and not wash off it required a specific chemical that only the school could provide to wash off to prevent students from just washing there hands
Hello there Nic, I am a new rookie in the fire alarm safety community and I am trying to install a safety protection system in my basement as there is only a 1 smoke detector and 1 carbon dioxide detector and they are placed over 30 feet from my furnace, oil tank, and water heater. My basement is unfinished and I am trying to make it safer for my family as it is not well protected from fire emergency's. I was wondering because you don't like Simplex if you had and bells, pull stations, or heat/smoke detectors you would be willing to spare to me to help make my basement safer. I would rather not discuss this on CZcams to not give any personal info away. So if there is any way I could email you about this, please let me know. Thank you so much! Of course you don't have too, I just am trying to protect my basement better. Thanks Nic! Also OH MY GOD THAT INTRO!
I like the bells way better than those electronic siren things that we had in the elementary/middle and high school I went too.
My K-8 school had the single-tone Simplex horns, as did the high school we went to in another town. In high school, we used bells to indicate time to change class, and we had to rely on the sound of the bells in the hallway... Nearly half of the classroom clocks didn't keep proper time, and often failed HOURLY synchronization from the master clock.
(SIDENOTE: I graduated in 1996, in '94 we installed a computer in the video productions room to broadcast an analog clock face onto one in-school CATV channel. The "clock generator board" was made by Bogen, so we affectionately called it "BogenTime." As of 2023, that system is STILL in use for classroom timekeeping! The 486DX/2 running DOS 6.22, and the clock generator board itself have, of course, been replaced with newer versions of same, but "BogenTime" still exists at my alma mater!)
I once worked for a casino that had a voice annunciation alert. In a building with 30-foot high ceilings, even on an empty gaming floor at 3 AM, all you could hear is two ascending "whoops" followed by an odd noise that MIGHT be a human voice making unintelligible noises, on a repeating loop. Looking up at the ceiling, I saw the flashing strobes, and I understood what the noises were supposed to be. And I thought to myself, "how is any human being supposed to know what that alarm means?" It was only during evacuation that I got close to a speaker/strobe head in a hallway and heard "An emergency has been reported in this building. Please leave the building at the nearest exit." And the crowd of chattering employees heading toward the exit was louder than the speaker!
It would be completely useless in a packed-to-the-gills casino with a live musical act performing. Hence why their Security is also supposed to coordinate evacuation, no way anybody will hear the tinny voice announcement, or even see tiny little white strobes WAAAAAY up on the ceiling. Obviously, the casino can't use bells, since slot machines ring bells, and everyone would be desensitized to that particular sound, so I'm not sure what better option there could be for them. And back when the machines dispensed coins, a bomb could go off and nobody would hear it over bells ringing, coins clanging, people complaining their bus leaves in three minutes and the machine didn't have enough quarters in it for them to cash out $400 right at the very last moment... 🤣
@@dashcamandy2242 My middle/high school was literally the exact opposite. We had a tone that was played over the loud speakers instead of actual bells. These worked properly until an elementary school closed and got consolidated into another, the middle school became 4-7, and the high school became 8-12. The schedules of both schools(which are in two halves of the same building) both shifted and after that point the bells were only somewhat on schedule. There'd always be confusing bells that would go off midway through classes, either erroneous bells leaking through from the middle school or holdovers from the old schedule. To my knowledge this issue was never resolved.
On the subject of clocks, I'm afraid I have little of note. The schools didn't have a central clock, all the clocks were just regular AA battery Edwards wall clocks hanging on a screw.
As for fire alarms, we had a full EST voice evac system(the building was renovated in 2012). We had white ceiling mount speaker strobes and SIGA-278 pull stations.
The elementary school I went to had old simplex alarms from the 80s and they have them set to continuous
Genesis has the best one
My school has horn/strobes but the bells are still up
10:24 "JESUS! You can't do me like that!" Quote of the year right there. Nice montage at the building
Yeah I thought I would do the intro a little different with that little edit hopefully I get better at them overtime cause I'd like to do them more
Those bells sound so amazing
That montage is absolutely fantastic! Great job Nic
Temporal coded bells sound the best, nice video!
They sure do
6:22 good on you to announce your presence before entering the ladies change room.
Given all the current climate today, you can never be too careful.
@@WillOnSomething correct.
dang fire montage
With the background music, beat-synchronized cuts, amazing b-roll, effects, and the artistic use of focus-shifting in shots with a very shallow depth-of-field, I cannot help but wonder if you've expanding your talents into video production. Very snazzy, I like it!
2:56 - My mild OCD approves!
3:10 - Not gonna lie, the shot of that vintage Edwards pull station in the thumbnail is what caught my eye. Looks pretty dang good for its age, too!
3:58 - The kids are thinking, "Oh jeez, that's Nic again, setting off the fire alarms!" 🤣
4:51 - One of the gongs sounds a bit loose maybe?
10:15 - Oooh, also a vintage "Save Energy" switch plate sticker! Now all I need to win "Vintage Item Bingo" is a "Mr. Yuck" sticker. Can you duck into the nurse's station for a sec? lol
I'm not gonna laugh at you for crashing your drone. I wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to operate one! 👴
Yeah I just thought I would try and put a little more effort into the intro of this one and see if people enjoyed it which they seem to have so I will try and put more production value into the videos in the future
A NEW VIDEO YES AND A NEW DRILL
Awesome Video I Like The Bells Way Better
Nice edit on the vid
Thanks thought I'd try something different
Awesome work in the videos! Keep doing it like that! Its really relaxing to watch your videos after a hard day of work!
How did you get involved with all of this electrical work at your school district?
I love the intro ❤
nice fire drill love these videos
Thank you
Nic you finally got it fixed!
It was fixed in my video from the Saturday we had the problem but it went off again this last weekend
@@nics-systems-electric good job fixing it but when the alarms went off last week again thats an uh oh but on april 12th my school fire alarms went off because the oven was over heated and started smoking
Nic, your videos are the best fire alarm videos on CZcams. I like the sounds of the alarms (the bells in this video), and the horns in your other videos
I like those edwards
Good video editing
10:24 xD
It’s always Ice Cream time
tho it is intresting sense iv never seen fire alarms that use bells our schools all had a steady always on tone they didnt even beep it was just a steady buzz. and this is that school you repaird tbhe modual in if i recal right iw atched that one a few days ago when i found youyr channel
Nice edits! Be safe!
Those Durabels are the best sounding by far. I hope they never replace them.
Unfortunately every bell in the school will go next year when we replace the system
What??? Nooooo!! It's such a beautiful sounding system. Well if you must can I have one of the 1964 Durabels? It's the one I grew up with and would love to have it in my homemade system.
😥
Oh no that was a great sounding system R.I.P Fire bells 1964-2024 hopefully the next system sounds alright too.
Nice montage at the begining, also whats the reason for bells in different sections being higher/lower pitched?
The same reason glasses/bowls in your home don't sound exactly the same when hitting them with a spoon.
In Canada are the notification appliances typically only in halls rather than in each room or do you just not check classrooms during drills?
In new buildings it's every room but this one only in the hallways typically during drills there isn't enough time to check each room anyways
Interesting thing i've noticed is is that in Ontario; the bells in rooms are usually 6 inch while the ones located in halls and places such as shops are 10".
is this before or after the panel has a problem
After but then we had the same problem again last weekend
@@nics-systems-electric Could you post a video about it the next time? Maybe when you are fixing it
@@thecomputergeek101old I wasn't there for the call out the second time
Nice edit on your video there!
Thanks thought I'd try something different hopefully I can get better at them overtime
@@nics-systems-electricYou will! Hey, what kind of elevator is in your old middle school?
@@IanGSully funny you ask that it doesn't have a brand it's a mixture of parts that some guy threw together in the 80s and took random parts he had from all different elevators and created this one this year Richmond elevator installed a new controller
Hello @@nics-systems-electric
@@nics-systems-electric So at this point it is basically a Richmond Elevator then? Even know none of the other parts are Richmond Elevator. And I also want to ask, does that elevator have a 3 speed door?
Do they give you your own set of keys to the buildings?
Near 1:50 there was an old 120vac adaptahorn. Was that with the old 6500 system or an even older non-existent system? Also, the county maintenance office for my school district (after a few months of communication) has decided to give me alarm parts from a 4100U system that is being replaced with an EST IO1000.
Those adaptor horns are part of the Bell system for class change which was disconnected a couple years ago they were still in use when I went to the school
@@nics-systems-electric I wonder if that's what my middle school had for class change bells when I went there? In the halls they had bells and in the portables but the classrooms for the 6th and 7th graders had buzzers hidden behind a plate in the wall above the doors. In 8th grade we got the portables and the others used to be jealous of us in the hot weather because they had air conditioning.
My school just used the PA system for class change bells. Fire alarm was just those strobes and electronic sirens.
@@SOU6900 My high school had the same setup as yours with the class change over the PA system but for fire alarms they had Simplex 4903-9838 horns on strobe plates. Not sure of the system and pulls though. The middle school got a complete makeover shortly after I left and they now have the tones over the PA for class changes not sure about the FA system though.
When I attended school here in BC in the 1980's those gray Adaptahorns were "always" used as the class change bells. While the Edwards 10" Durabels were almost always the fire alarm. When I graduated in the 90's though they were starting to gradually phase the mechanical "horns" out for a more modern "chime" or tone over the PA system.
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I'm curious why there are always no fire alarms in the stairways? You'd think that would be an improvement place to have fire alarms.
Was the light above silence supposed to stay lit? Will the alarm still sound that way?
the school district that i went to as a kid every school had ink on the backs of the handles of ever pull station so if a studen pulled the station they could find out who did it and basicly punish them and it was a very potent type of ink that would stain and not wash off it required a specific chemical that only the school could provide to wash off to prevent students from just washing there hands
Nic was this not the school the false alarm went off in ur doing this fire drill in anyways though love watching your content ❤
This was the one from the false alarm on that Saturday
@@nics-systems-electric anyways keep the great work on CZcams really enjoy watching your videos
Every week we had the same thing but when it's rainy they can cancel fire drill
You all have woodshop in middle school? I'm jealous lol
Yeah they always have and for a while they had metal shop too but then they got rid of that
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Total armchair wannabe here. What is a "portable"?
I love the two videos I've seen so far from you :)
Portable classroom building they are in lots of my videos especially the annual testing videos
@@nics-systems-electric ahaaa...
I thought it was a part of the alarm system, not the premise layout.
Thanks! Have a wonderful day, sir!
Are Durabel’s quiet or loud?
Not as loud as a 439D or MB 10-24 but they do have a really nice sound I think they get weaker as they age as well
@@nics-systems-electric yeah, they do age I wish they can make them again, but then again, those were made in 1964
Any of your old teachers said hi ?
A lot of them are gone I'm there almost every day anyways so it's nothing special lol
Hello there Nic, I am a new rookie in the fire alarm safety community and I am trying to install a safety protection system in my basement as there is only a 1 smoke detector and 1 carbon dioxide detector and they are placed over 30 feet from my furnace, oil tank, and water heater. My basement is unfinished and I am trying to make it safer for my family as it is not well protected from fire emergency's. I was wondering because you don't like Simplex if you had and bells, pull stations, or heat/smoke detectors you would be willing to spare to me to help make my basement safer. I would rather not discuss this on CZcams to not give any personal info away. So if there is any way I could email you about this, please let me know. Thank you so much! Of course you don't have too, I just am trying to protect my basement better. Thanks Nic! Also OH MY GOD THAT INTRO!
Let new fire bells
My house is275
My family is Ruby Josh Drake
Dude, you aware that some bells are not in sync?
Yea
U do a rallygood job on here i hop we can be friends with u at well be good too be are friends with u mate at well be good too do at