Evolution of Fire Alarms 1960’s to Present (MOST POPULAR VID)

[@wubbzyeas615]

Yes, I’m aware there’s some mistakes made in here by misinformation My apologies I can try to re-edit the video but it might take a while Thank you By the way, I might take this down later when I upload my new one Edit as of 10.30.2024: THANK YOU GUYS FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO BLOW UP! This is now my most popular video which is crazy and got me so many more subscribers than I intended to get Thank you guys so much you are the best!

[@HavardCastiglioni]

It's all good @wubbzyeas615. I also have autism myself. Also I'm not bothered because I happened to be on the spectrum myself. What I am saying is that we're not perfect, but we're human at the end of the day

[@wubbzyeas615]

Indeed

[@HavardCastiglioni]

@@wubbzyeas615 Yup! Also nice profile picture! BTW, I happen to be a fan of fire alarms myself. At first they tend to bother me. After awhile, I'm not worried about them because they activate em for our safety.

[@seatripreports]

I have a very mild case of autism, so essentially the only thing that affects me is sudden, loud noises, and those 2000’s alarms back in elementary school man, the stuff of my nightmares 😂 thanks for bringing back the memories (good and bad…)

[@wubbzyeas615]

No problem man!

[@Joshua429]

I would say more like at the very start of the spectrum same here fellow autistic 🫡

[@daviboi808]

Same here! We had a simplex set to constant, and I hated it!

[@ripjaw1212-9]

same but i have a wheelock MT on continuous its infinitely WORSE

[@kgrfirdjy]

I got driven crazy by loud noises like fire alarms as a kid with adhd plus migraines and nonstop ear infections. Surprisingly, I became an EMT // RN and served around 5 years on a rescue squad.

[@BlueThunderboltFireAlarm-um4rp]

I remember watching all these as a kid. The late 2000s and early 2010s were an amazing era for the fire alarm enthusiasts. I remember my fair share dealing with Spectralert Advances when my school went from simplex horns in Pre school 2007-2008, to Spectralert Advances in Kindergarden 2008-2009. I went from hating those advances in kindergarten, to owning literally 3 spectralert advances. Lol. I also miss those Edwards 375 Adapdahorns from my Elementary school I went to at the time. D: I want to grab a hold of those so badly. I''m 21 now. LOL

[@ZT_1234]

Electromechanical horns on march time sound so good

[@wubbzyeas615]

@@ZT_1234 yes in fact they do!

[@SylvieonPiggyFan29YT]

@@wubbzyeas615 continues is better with Wheelock dsms

[@BlueThunderboltsiren]

That and AC horns like the Simplex 4050s and 4040s.

[@SylvieonPiggyFan29YT]

@@BlueThunderboltsiren it is

[@ZT_1234]

@@SylvieonPiggyFan29YT I can't stand continuous, that's just torture

[@millenniumbryan]

My favorite are speaker strobes, as it gives instructions for what is going on and what to do vs just an ear piercing horn. I would love to see them become the standard in all public buildings but the issue is they are more expensive than a traditional system

[@THE_FALLEN_TROOPER]

My Highschool has them, it’s alot better than hearing the *BËĘP BËĘP BËĘP*

[@mattdude]

Speaker systems have always been a thing long before the present day. Whether horns or speaker systems are installed are based off of the type of location it’s being installed in.

[@audguy]

I loved *rolls eyes* standing next to one of those when they went off for the first time in our new building at the time building. I really do enjoy the hearing damage.

[@wjrshepherd10]

I wouldn’t have expected pulsing buzzer alarms to be as early as the 1990s!

[@ModricoTV]

Ah, "Simplex Fire Alarm Testing". A classic fire alarm video I used watch in my early days on KZbin.

[@officialsimplexguy]

The bells in the first clip are 4vac. The panel uses low voltage signals in series for supervision. You don’t see 120vac appliances on a fire alarm system with an FACP. They were only on closed-contact systems where no panel was used with minimal exceptions. The system in the second clip is not from the 70s rather the early 60s. That system is likely even older than the system in the first clip. Flush style horns like that were the staple of the 1950s and 60s. The system in the 3rd clip is an 80s system. The 12vac horns were left over from an older system (50s-60s) and a simplex 2001 replaced it in the 80s. Voice evacuation systems have been around since the 1970s. They’ve only gotten more popular over the years as codes have gotten more strict on where voice evacuation is required.

[@neohistoryfan1014]

there is a modernist (built in 1969) six story office building in Akron that has the same system as the first clip--panel is a Simplex 4247-4. I think they've had flush mount horns in the 1940s--there's an apartment building in one neighborhood of Akron that has 6 V simplex 4037s--it was built in 1974.

[@alexandersalarms5380]

Autocall invented the voice evac system in the late 1960s

[@CO84trucker]

Several schools I attended while growing up near Cleveland OH in the 90s had Autocall fire alarms. Rather than pull stations they had break-glass call points and the loud AF horns sounded Cadence marchtime (4-4-4-4).

[@davidperry4013]

Skyscrapers and convention centers had speaker strobes since the late 1970s. They look like wheelock 7002T but with a 70v speaker instead of a horn and sounds like the GTA V military base alarm and the voice evac message is stored on a magnetic tape. Large schools had voice evac systems since the late 1990s. Simplex has that same slow whoop tone since the 1980s. LED strobes came out in 2014 with the Wheelock Exceder LED series. Wheelock AS and MT horn strobes have been around in the 1990s are they are just as loud as spectralert advances. The spectralert advance actually came out in 2004 and the original spectralert came out in 1998.

[@alfa_guy09]

My elementary school had the 2010’s alarm, and as a 5-11 year old kid, they always scared me so bad

[@blose774]

From bells to voice evac.Impressive!

[@wubbzyeas615]

Thanks!

[@blose774]

@@wubbzyeas615 yw!

[@VicksburgRailProductions]

It’s a surprise to me how long those ‘90s fire alarms have been around. My school got rid of ‘em only two years ago.

[@Protoaster]

My high school currently has a few simplex 2903s and 4050 horns in some parts of the building. they have been mostly replaced due to the school changing from 120v to a panel. I recently collected a 4050 horn and 2 2903's that they had in a box left over.

[@dylbeentheplotagonistandra2811]

My elementary school which was built in 1989 had Simplex 2901-9838s on 4903-9101 strobe plates in continuous. But my middle and high school had Wheelock AS’ in code 3. But my current university has a wide variety of different systems in different buildings on campus. Most buildings have Simplex systems, the ones that were built or renovated any time between 2009 and now have 4100U or ES voice evac but ones built or renovated between 2001 and 2008 have TrueAlert horn strobes and there are also a couple buildings with the same system my elementary school had (but for one of the buildings, I don’t know how much longer the system will still be around because that building is due for a major renovation) and also one building used to have 2901-9806s with 2904 lights mounted above them but recently the 9806s were replaced with Wheelock Exceder horns (but I don’t why they didn’t remove the lights as well and just put Exceder horn strobes just like the second floor). The only non-Simplex systems on campus are Siemens ones. In one building, built in 2000, there’s U-MMTs (actually branded as Cerberus Pyrotronics) and in another building, built in 2013, there’s rebranded versions of the Wheelock E50 and E60. And there were also two other buildings that used to have Siemens systems but they were replaced with Simplex systems

[@wubbzyeas615]

@@dylbeentheplotagonistandra2811 nicee

[@firealarm2903_]

60s-mid 90s was definitely the best.

[@haydengray3523]

My elementary school had the old 80s alarm (was in elementary school 2008-2014), and it was definitely quite the loud alarm. Though recently the school renovated and got newer 2010s alarms (I live in the same neighborhood and can often hear the alarms when they do a fire drill). But my favorite thing about the old set up in my school, is that all of the alarms were actually pretty much only in the hallways, there were none in the actual classrooms, so if you just shut the door than the alarm was very muffled and you could barely hear it, which honestly in hindsight is probably a major fire hazard lol.

[@zachstudios567]

My brother told me that his month they replaced the old system at my high-school with voice alert panels. The old system was comprised of Siemens UMMTs, U-MHUs, and U-MCSs, the system had a tendency to go off at random for no reason. New system was described to me by my brother to be very similar to the system in the last video, with the difference being it produces two slow whooooooops between voice messages.

[@wubbzyeas615]

@@zachstudios567 thats sad :(

[@zachstudios567]

​​​@@wubbzyeas615yeah i guess. Though I know some will not miss those piercing noise the Seinmens made. During drills I actually went outside early because too much of the noise triggered migraines, that and probably anxiety of anticipation of the noise triggering the migraines anyways the fun part was being outside near classrooms with windows open on nice days and hearing classmates scream when the noise suddenly goes off. So yeah a bit sad the code 3 days are gone there. Forgot to mention i have a small recording of the Seinmens going off during a malfunction. (otherwise i would have been outside already) so in a way i preserved the system digitally

[@Alwaysdoinit112]

I miss the 2010s. That is when I joined the fire alarm community. The Advance is my favorite alarm.

[@BlueThunderboltsiren]

Same. I didn't have a siren or fire alarm channel yet, but I was in 3rd grade when I joined the community.

[@BlueThunderboltsiren]

Those were the simpler times.

[@Alwaysdoinit112]

Yeah I don't,like voice evac. My system has a System Sensor P2R and a Wheelock NH. They sound so good on continuous together. ​@@BlueThunderboltsiren

[@Alwaysdoinit112]

​@@BlueThunderboltsirenI was in 5th grade. Such a long time ago. I graduate school soon.

[@Mayah_Abelman]

my high school i went to had the second to last ones in the video plus bells. Loud as hell dude. I've always hated fire drills because there's one by the main doors and it's ear piercing when you walk by that thing.

[@United_airlines2424]

2:10 simplex heaven

[@Simplex4903]

I like the simplex 2903s on march time

[@ASoCalRailfanner]

My old middle school had these fire alarms that would only play a high pitched noise if it was activated and it would leave my ears ringing for hours.

[@ASoCalRailfanner]

And for anyone who wants to know I think they where from simplex I think

[@ASoCalRailfanner]

I found out it was actually a gentex mini horn

[@ASoCalRailfanner]

And it had a broken speaker that led to the noise

[@sopwithhannah2401]

1:39 those are some delicious horns

[@blackdouglas87030]

The 2010s was the Worst Era Fire where WAY Too Loud in this decade and greatly increased your risk of hear damage or loss

[@BotvacProductions469]

my middle school, has the spectralert advances and i even got to pull it twice for the drills

[@wubbzyeas615]

Nice I actually expect to pull the fire alarm for the fire drill at my dad’s work in the coming weeks so expect a video!

[@erikmorozov1740]

1:56 yeah those horns were very loud

[@Zip_IsHere]

1980s sounds like a car horn beeping non stop

[@CyberX48583]

2:56 just to let you know the spectralert classics are released in 1997 the ones with a fixed candela strobes, in 2004, system sensor updated the classics with multi candela strobes but most installers uses multi candela spectralert classics after the spectralert advances were released for an example my school has spectralert adavances as well as multi candela spectralert classics, as in 2007, that’s the year we’re the spectralert advances we’re released

[@wubbzyeas615]

Thanks for the info, had trouble finding it on the Internet

[@LewisSmith-he6gu]

that sounds like a ceiling fan

[@wubbzyeas615]

@@LewisSmith-he6gu what?

[@andystevenson5067]

My grade school had the 1980s one and man was it scary hearing that one. My condo now has that 2010s one and it’s just plain annoying as hell 😂 I went to a really old building for grade school and I’d rather have that scary ass one that the ear piercing one

[@Trafficlightandfirealarmfan]

How about the spectralert l series that are gaining popularity today

[@wubbzyeas615]

I should have put them in the present but i didnt have space on my computer luckily now i do

[@christophercarey3232]

What's the name of the video with the ac horns doing march time and who's the youtuber?

[@CentralVirginiaEAS]

im backstage on your streamyard lol

[@wubbzyeas615]

Ok

[@willfut287]

Bruh the continuous buzzer from the 1970s 💀💀💀

[@wubbzyeas615]

@@willfut287 yea there pretty loud

[@wubbzyeas615]

@@willfut287 i did make quite a few mistakes thru out the vid tho

[@erikmorozov1740]

2:10 and especially at 2:20 that hurts because it's so loud

[@triplejboys789]

I didn't like the 2010s one because I went to school in 2018, so yeah, the 1970s one sounded like a barber shop

[@aidenthecomputernerd]

Link to 1960s video pls

[@thunderbolt-d5t]

Joel speck thats the owner

[@AnArcticBlueFox]

Can I have the video link to 1980's 120BPM March time video?

[@wubbzyeas615]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXPaZ3utqbeWiJYsi=3OxDGskTBdBgkVy2

[@VintageCollections]

As someone who specializes in fire alarms made between 1920-1970, I can see some inaccurate info.

[@CassandraPantaristi]

Yea, the Faraday horn in the second video is from 1956. Not the 70s.

[@VintageCollections]

@@CassandraPantaristi Those are Simplex/IBM 4037 horns. I can’t tell what they’re branded as for sure, but if they’re IBM they’re pre-1958, if Simplex they’re 1958-1964 or so.

[@statecollegewx4060]

Thatsvcool

[@OH_Elevators]

Do the Autocall pullrod systems fall under the 1960 bell setup?

[@wubbzyeas615]

@@OH_Elevators tbh i have no idea… sorry 😭

[@That_2_guy2T]

1940's era

[@ILUVTW33K]

still have 2010

[@ScantPear]

Could have chose a better spectralert video as the video you used had the terrible fwr sounding which sounds terrible on the classics…

[@JoanneStealey-dz6qm]

Can't hear you over the alarms

[@wubbzyeas615]

@@JoanneStealey-dz6qm sorry, i will try to fix it next time!

[@Luke202-z8b]

I just use the captions, which sometimes work cause youtube😂😂

[@wubbzyeas615]

I would say KZbin captions are completely accurate, but they work LOL

[@JoanneStealey-dz6qm]

@@Luke202-z8b yeah that's what I did

[@MIDI_Player_Kion]

1:30

[@Luke202-z8b]

I feel like the advance gets a little bit of a bad rap, yes it is ear piercing and it is over used af. But that is just how a fire alarm is, it is ear bleeding. And this alarm has a lot of features that have ADVANtages: it has multi candela. Any variant can be mounted anywhere, like a wall mount can be mounted on the ceiling, or a ceiling mount can be mounted on the wall and the strobe will not have issues cause it's the same one despite the lens being different from each other. And yet these idiots call it a fail. (though yes i can agree that it does look stupid) anyways.. it has supposedly easier installation, and the fact that everyone hates the sound. That means the fire alarm clearly works well, even in reality it has a lower volume than other alarms, just its shrilling sound gives the illusion.

[@NighTMare-gv8gz]

I can deal with loud and overused, my biggest problem is I can’t stand the way they sound. It’s definitely the worst fire alarm sound ever.

[@Luke202-z8b]

@NighTMare-gv8gz so ig you are more of a train horn person then

[@NighTMare-gv8gz]

@@Luke202-z8b Not really, I can deal with most alarm sounds excluding the noise. It's just the shrilling noise as you mentioned. Not saying they aren't good alarms, but I really don't understand why they gave it such a horrible sounding horn.

[@SWkansasEAS]

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[@wubbzyeas615]

@@SWkansasEAS ?