Those MASS sounders have a very particular sound when you hear several at a time in 800Hz. Years ago, my elementary school had MA sounders with double projectors on them in all the hallways, all set to 800 hz and continuous. That wail was unmistakable.
Nice man!! Can't wait for new system test 8!!!!! I saw the preview!! I am looking for a voice evac panel as well! I know you aren't but you have one, if you know what I mean when I'm saying this. I found a silent night one for $230 on eBay!!
Hey Andrew, have you ever considered going all-Commander and getting a Gentex sync module? Even the Commander1 is compatible, and the Code 3 isn't painfully slow. I think it'd fit a Notifier system well.
Have a sync module already, when I had the SHGs they actually synced up to the Commanders, because they have the "Z" type strobe which was capable of sync. I just got bored of the SHGs and wanted to mix things up a bit, is all.
Andrew I've been a big fan and I've seen EVERY video you have made from the start and you are awesome and let me know about the simplex fire alarms I'll take them if you don't want them like if you still have the simplex 4050 and the 4030 like if there's any problems with that you don't want like I'll take them for you if you don't let me find out who it is let me know I've been a big fan probably don't know me but get the time to talk with you Andrew and again let me know please thank you
I know this comment has nothing to do with this particular video but is there any way to wire an old fire box so that it can be used as a coded pull station? I thought that out of everyone, you would know.
+NewAgeServerAlarm Yes. It's a Gamewell Masterbox from 1924, code 713. It has three terminals inside and when I attached wires to two of them and to a horn, a bell inside the box would activate and stick causing the batteries I used to overheat.
ironmatic 1 OH NO. I've experienced that. Not nearly as bad as the AS on continuous. FYI on what seems to be on the loudest volume too. Did I mention that preschool had WHEELOCK MT?! some on tone some on horn.
I doubt you have it bad..... My school has System Sensor MASSes on continuous and gentex gx90 horn strobe (I believe)on continuous in the hall that leads to the gym and we have gentex Commanders code 3 horn in the gym and the band room
+NewAgeServerAlarm Can you help me. I'm trying to figure out what my Elementary school had as a fire system. I know they had simplex t-bars and mechanical horn. the light plate was also simplex. the plate had a light at the top with the word fire printed once. I think you had the strobe version of the plate in I think system test 26 but that might be wrong. I'll try to find a picture of the plate if I can. I would really appreciate if you could help me figure it out, I'm kinda new to this fire alarm thing.
+NewAgeServerAlarm I think the plate was a simplex 4903-9001. What I put before was I think the strobe version of the plate. As for the horn, I'm still looking
just like my school except the Gentex commanders are on code 3 horn but the MASSes were not on code 3..... They were on your least favorite coding(aka continuous)
***** Okay. Well I am a BIG fire alarm and fire safety enthusiast. Also with alarms in general like security alarms. But especially in the fire alarm field. I skype with about four other fire alarm enthusiasts. Would it be okay if maybe me and you could skype sometime?
I take it you aren't gonna use electromechanical horns for this anymore? You said you wanted to protect rare and valuable horns from damage and electromechanical horns are getting increasingly rare (and your ES and MS can speak to that)
Yeah. the System 500 panel for some reason can't handle those horns either. Also bad news, my elementary and middle schools got upgraded this summer. Now siemens voice evac in both schools.
Those MASS sounders have a very particular sound when you hear several at a time in 800Hz. Years ago, my elementary school had MA sounders with double projectors on them in all the hallways, all set to 800 hz and continuous. That wail was unmistakable.
+willbill808 Yeah they do. The MAEH in my computer room is actually slightly lower pitched than the MASS though.
" Once I get done with all the crazy crap they call, school! " Lol.
hey new age server alarm, I love your fire alarm vids and system, keep up the good work :)
Haha a MASSive change in the system! The pun was great!
These videos are oddly satisfying.
What a CLASSIC way to start a video
would you happen to know where to get a backbox made for the FireLite BG-6
I just picked up an Edwards 270A-SPO. Which of your system tests has one of those?
Yes, that is a MASSive change!
Just Plain Weird Goat
Ha ha, yeah, get out
Get off the stage
AhaHaHAhaHAHaHeH, NO, NOT FUNNY.
Lmao I think that's what he was going for
The basement alarms are the same as the ones that are at the H.E.B. here.
That was awesome!
Do you have any MASS A/Vs with ADA strobes?
So Many Memories....
I Discovered You When You Only Made Episode 17 But Now It's Episode 38 .-.
Nice man!! Can't wait for new system test 8!!!!! I saw the preview!! I am looking for a voice evac panel as well! I know you aren't but you have one, if you know what I mean when I'm saying this. I found a silent night one for $230 on eBay!!
HUGE change can you do wheelock AS fire alarms 🚨 next
Nice!
welcome back Andrew
sounds like an Apollo fire alarm in the basement
Do you happen to have a Wheelock AH-24WP-R horn? I'd like to see one in a system test because my school has a absolute load of them for the outside.
I do not have one.
Nice!!
nooo i love the intro :( but anyway great video :)
Fire alarm
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Just a random question but out of all the notification appliences which is your favorite?
+Comelio Don't really have a specific favorite but in general I like the real retro looking ones.
You have made a MASSive Change
Cool.
I love the MASS because they have that kind of high---low.
Xx_Braden_xX I hate them
It's been 2 years since this video came out... *AND THIS STILL DIDN'T GET 200 LIKES?*
Andrew i fell the same way with school lol
Cool
Hey Andrew, have you ever considered going all-Commander and getting a Gentex sync module? Even the Commander1 is compatible, and the Code 3 isn't painfully slow. I think it'd fit a Notifier system well.
Have a sync module already, when I had the SHGs they actually synced up to the Commanders, because they have the "Z" type strobe which was capable of sync. I just got bored of the SHGs and wanted to mix things up a bit, is all.
Oh cool, never knew the SHG was compatible too. Alright, you do you.
Only SHGs with a "Z" series strobe. You can tell by if the model number has a Z on the end. For example SHG-241575WRZ ... or GMS-24110WWZ
I love the Gentex's
Ok now I got one question for you, in System test 26.1 with the continuous coding, why did you think that was loud?
Because it is loud
Yes! I've been waiting for this for ages
I thought I saw a post on the fb group way back about you did a live stream of you installing a voice evac system. Was that not in your house?
At one point he had a voice evac system in his private system. In System Test 25.
Hey in the next system test, can you add the EST/Edwards Genesis Horn Strobe? Not the ceiling mount though, just the usual wall mount.
+Derpy FireAlarms I dont own one.
+NewAgeServerAlarm ;( Aw.
+NewAgeServerAlarm Could you perhaps buy one?
I would want to hear the mass on slow whoop with panel coding temperal
Can you please make a system test video of all system sensor alarms in detectors.
Unless you don't already have these I'd recommend to get the colored lenses for the gentex commanders!
YAY DONT WE ALL LOVE SCH--*throws up in mouth*
If you ever do an anniversary system test, you should mount your rarest alarms and pulls. Or the ones you like the most
They're rare and valuable so I'd rather not honestly to protect them from damage.
The original fire alarm enthusiast is always right
Andrew I've been a big fan and I've seen EVERY video you have made from the start and you are awesome and let me know about the simplex fire alarms I'll take them if you don't want them like if you still have the simplex 4050 and the 4030 like if there's any problems with that you don't want like I'll take them for you if you don't let me find out who it is let me know I've been a big fan probably don't know me but get the time to talk with you Andrew and again let me know please thank you
That punny intro tho...
I joined the fire forms
Why did Mass #2 sound weird?
Gentex and system sensor reminds me of my middle school.
We use those mass alarms at our school.
Avery Andersen do the ones at your school have ADA strobes, or are they like this with the non ADA frosted strobes.
What are the strobes?
Do continuous on the masses please
A MASS-ive change to the system!
I know this comment has nothing to do with this particular video but is there any way to wire an old fire box so that it can be used as a coded pull station? I thought that out of everyone, you would know.
What do you mean by a fire box? Like a gamewell masterbox?
+NewAgeServerAlarm Yes. It's a Gamewell Masterbox from 1924, code 713. It has three terminals inside and when I attached wires to two of them and to a horn, a bell inside the box would activate and stick causing the batteries I used to overheat.
oh my lord
Sounds like my schools systems, aside there on Continous.
Do MASS alarms use a piezo or a small speaker?
It's a small speaker.
NewAgeServerAlarm Ah, okay. Thanks
no
Official NewAgeServerAlarm I thought it was a piezo sounder.
oh I get the bad pun "I made a MASSive change system sensor MASS
are u a fan of gentex since u have kept the commander 3 in the same spot
Where is system test 32? Did you fix the 8005 broken screen yet?
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The system used in System Test 31 is no longer installed, and has not been for several years now.
Not just that u set the upstairs gentex commander 3s from macanical tone to 2400 hurts also that was the last system test with the system 500
I'm sorry, I just have to say this:
intense ceiling view is intense
+Average PVRIS Fan That's called.. privacy. LOL
LOL with all the crazy crap they call SCHOOL
Geez. Loud. Not too bad. At my school I have to deal with WHEELOCK AS horns in CONTINUOUS. LOUD. VERY LOUD.
Wow, and I thought the Wheelock NS horns on high volume code 3 at my school where making me deaf...
ironmatic 1 OH NO. I've experienced that. Not nearly as bad as the AS on continuous. FYI on what seems to be on the loudest volume too.
Did I mention that preschool had WHEELOCK MT?! some on tone some on horn.
Yeah, I couldn't imagine those older Wheelock horns on continuous.
ironmatic 1 *BEEEEP*
OW MY EARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly those things go off and it gives me nightmares that night.
I doubt you have it bad..... My school has System Sensor MASSes on continuous and gentex gx90 horn strobe (I believe)on continuous in the hall that leads to the gym and we have gentex Commanders code 3 horn in the gym and the band room
how did you wire your entire system?
Fire alarm wire and wires and holes
Okay now try that again except set the commanders to chime
The gentex commander 3 is set on code 3 tone
you sounded like you had a cold.
You also changed the tones on the Commanders from Mechanical to Electronic (2400Hz).
sounds like gentex commmder 3 is saying me and the mass
you should use ummt for the next system test
He sold it
+NewAgeServerAlarm Can you help me. I'm trying to figure out what my Elementary school had as a fire system. I know they had simplex t-bars and mechanical horn. the light plate was also simplex. the plate had a light at the top with the word fire printed once. I think you had the strobe version of the plate in I think system test 26 but that might be wrong. I'll try to find a picture of the plate if I can. I would really appreciate if you could help me figure it out, I'm kinda new to this fire alarm thing.
I did some searching on the internet. I think the alarms were a simplex 2901-9838 on a 4903-9101 light plate. still trying to figure the pull station
2903-9001 for the light plate. Probably a Simplex 4251-20 pull station. As for the horn, have to see what it looks like.
+NewAgeServerAlarm I think the plate was a simplex 4903-9001. What I put before was I think the strobe version of the plate. As for the horn, I'm still looking
just like my school except the Gentex commanders are on code 3 horn but the MASSes were not on code 3..... They were on your least favorite coding(aka continuous)
huh mass-ive change lol
Holy crap that is the exact same fire alarm from my old school lol
What are they called??? :P
Had two different models in this video, which one are you referring to?
The alarm that is right above the t-bar you pulled
The one above the RSG t-bar is a system sensor mass,(non ada I believe).
+NewAgeServerAlarm this video was published the same time that my sister had her birthday.
NewAgeServerAlarm, when are you going to make New System Test 8
DamienGamer 15 Watch the Video "What Annoys Me" and you Will get your answer
Also I like the system sensor mass.
Do you skype with other fire alarm enthusiasts?
Sometimes
***** Okay. Well I am a BIG fire alarm and fire safety enthusiast. Also with alarms in general like security alarms. But especially in the fire alarm field. I skype with about four other fire alarm enthusiasts. Would it be okay if maybe me and you could skype sometime?
I'm very busy, I rarely get to skype with anybody anymore.
I do not know.
do you have a voice evacuation fire alarm like they have in malls
I do have a panel with a voice evacuation module.
Plus when is your next video going to be
+Alex Flores A week later every time someone asks (Old System Test 29.75).
Chime time
I had these set on chime one time actually.
+NewAgeServerAlarm sweet I ordered a ms5ud
Speaking of school, I have 3 weeks left of the school year!!!
SO EXCITED!!!!
Almost done with my freshman year of high school
thank you. I have 2 weeks left!!!
You're right!! I should!!!
+AutisticGamer Update: I have 2 half days left!!!
+Alison Canid my birthday is the day before
i got mie smoct smo futetr
are new system test 8 is coming
Is this your latest system test?
Yep
Is it just me or does the first alarm we see has creepy looking FIRE labeling it looks like my nightmare...
What lol
The gentex commander 3 is loud why?
MASS24LOs, MASS24Ms, or a combo?
+Craig Baker Shop has MASS24M, computer room has MAEH24M.
+NewAgeServerAlarm
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+NewAgeServerAlarm see comment above
Then fire alarm videos Man
when is you next video
mass is set 800hz put it in hi lo
Last time u had voice evac
+Shayne Waite New System Test 6? I didn't have voice evac.
I take it you aren't gonna use electromechanical horns for this anymore? You said you wanted to protect rare and valuable horns from damage and electromechanical horns are getting increasingly rare (and your ES and MS can speak to that)
Yeah. the System 500 panel for some reason can't handle those horns either.
Also bad news, my elementary and middle schools got upgraded this summer. Now siemens voice evac in both schools.
Yeah I know. I'm still trying to find your middle school video.
It was never uploaded per request of the school.
Do you have it saved somewhere?
Goldenrod636
LoL tHe fiRE ALARms arE SayiNG mE
Coming back 3-4 years later to this comment, i was a little cringe. Still sorta am. Ah the obessed idiot days for me lol
Why is your entire fire alarm collection for sale?
+Andrew Carlstedt It isn't. Only some things are.
+NewAgeServerAlarm any fire alarms for sale any old simplex 2901's or 3's ???
+NewAgeServerAlarm what do u have for sale
btw when will u have another video
Just had a fire drill at my high school lol omg
pes wot mi beveos
0:04
System Test 29.5 was 5 seconds shorter. Just saying.
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I am the 100th commet prize nothing
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can I be in your next video btw I'll give you a shout out on my channel because you make the best fire alarm videos and the coolest setup