Field Work - Simplex TrueAlerts on Continuous in Elementary School Horn/Strobe Test

[@Twentythree33]

Sounds like a swarm of drug-addicted hornets.

[@Skyhawk1998]

It is curious how this building wound up with a mixture of devices like that. I can get the out of sync strobes and odd coding as being a grandfather thing, but wouldn't it have shown up immediately that some strobes did not function on the then current system settings? I wonder if that black X means anything, on that malfunctioning alarm at 5:37.

[@a4j7]

my elementary school was on continuous, and even worse it was old so in some parts of the school they had terribly loud faraday horn strobes

[@Reese-Tube]

Can you show where the Initiating and Notifying devices are wired on the circuit board?

[@coltonstigall32]

The Truealerts with the dead strobe need a replacement. Pretty nice system! Unusual to see Truealerts on continuous in a school.

[@johndeerefan725]

The description shows that the Truealerts with the strobes that weren't flashing were not dead, they were just set on SmartSync.

[@weloveyouuaj]

My School Has TrueAlerts on continuous and it’s really annoying

[@Twentythree33]

My school has their EST IO500 in a computer server room on the second floor. The only access to it is by going through a room being used as a sensory room.

[@Dredpath1]

The FACP is in a classroom?

[@Dredpath1]

Zachary Fleck I wouldn’t mind have that room as my homeroom lol. I’ve been in buildings where the panel is on the third floor 🤔

[@Dredpath1]

Zachary Fleck oh wow

[@Dredpath1]

Zachary Fleck Ive seen a NAC extender mounted on the ceiling. All I can say is “that’s not my work!”

[@caleb0606]

My school has the FACP in a closet on the second floor

[@Ava_hazel2002]

@@caleb0606 ours is in front office

[@joeycaridi3030]

Non-working Strobes (Because the smart sync module was disabled) 03:09 04:48 (The Simplex Truealert is also wearing a name tag necklace) 05:38 (The Simplex Truealert is also kinda off of its mounting box)

[@mr.happyakajourdainnovak4292]

i never heard a true alert on continuous but i heard them on code 3. my fire alarms in my high school are in continuous, but in a side building it's a spectra alert advanced on code 3, and in smaller side buildings, there are gentex commanders horn/strobe but used as a strobe only.

[@hajanaimulla]

Hi ...may i asking question? About system

[@seanjuth]

Sure they chose continuous, but that panel has so many different coding options in the first place

[@evanbart4109]

Can you say Seizor Strobe! Isn’t this a NFPA code violation, for (general/most) Strobes out of Sync? Are these alarms Free run, or dumb Sync (as I like to put it)? What fire company’s, dose your work typically distribute, or you work with? Great video 😀👍👍

[@johndeerefan725]

The school was grandfathered before the sync requirements

[@siphonralarms9411]

My high school has these on steady as well.

[@Dredpath1]

Awesome video!

[@22megaton29]

The panel is in a class room on the second floor Continuous out of sync true alerts Everything sounds too quiet Strobes weren’t working I understand it was grandfathered and those strobes use to work but what code allowed this, I thought my school had a confusing setup Jesus

[@22megaton29]

Zachary Fleck Oh no doubt, every time I hear this generation of true alerts on video, they always sound quiet Still a very weird system

[@johndeerefan725]

The strobes were on SmartSync, so that's why they weren't flashing

[@chrislp1145]

Is every Simplex TrueAlert on continuous in every school?

[@TheFirePanel]

Not every school, just as required in this jurisdiction.

[@andrewsstation6436]

@@TheFirePanel When are they required to be on continuous, for example? Isn’t that a little too loud, or is it required by the fire code?

[@TheFirePanel]

@@andrewsstation6436 It's required only by local fire code, nothing in NFPA 72 requires this.

[@Dranfusion]

Both my Elementary and Middle schools that I went to have the QuickAlerts set on continuous and my high school has the Wheelock NS’s on code 3

[@aidanthetoiletelevatorfire7554]

I was in Grade 7 When you tested these

[@matthewgregory8218]

I think the default settting is code 3

[@matthewgregory8218]

Zachary Fleck ya that’s bad

[@gavinandtucker6585]

Awesome

[@FireAlarmTech7.]

What panel is that?

[@armaniwilliams5752]

Simplex 4002 Fire Alarm Control panel

[@FireAlarmTech7.]

That ain’t no 4002, it’s either a 4100 or 4020 panel

[@armaniwilliams5752]

RSS Alarms. Sorry. Had to relook. It is a 4100 panel

[@Dranfusion]

It’s a 4020, the 4100 has a dover buzz piezo sound.

[@twentyfour44]

what type of panel was that

[@johndeerefan725]

4020

[@GaryBeltz]

Toward the beginning why did you say “That’s not right”?

[@matthewgregory8218]

I think because the true alert should be at code 3

[@Ava_hazel2002]

@@matthewgregory8218 our school uses the same code so its not mandated of a coding for fire alarms

[@alexlebruh8025]

This is the exact same thing as my school only the classes are like 4x smaller and there is 3x as many horn strobes 😰 the fire alarm setup is really stupid. There is a horn strobe in the BATHROOM. Edit: junior high really is torture 🤬🤬🤬

[@imaboarder182]

What model number are these?

[@aidanthetoiletelevatorfire7554]

Simplex 4903-9425, 9426 and 9427 for the horn strobes and 4904-9168, 9169 and 9170 for the remote strobes

[@aidanthetoiletelevatorfire7554]

This School is a little older

[@originaltoaster1280]

i swear elementary schools try to destroy kids’ ears

[@TheFirePanel]

Agree - My elementary school had TrueAlert Horn/Strobes in the bathrooms.

[@ooka7705]

#SeizureStrobe