Here in Canada we refer to everything as bells :lol: Not even kidding, half the time I do inspections in buildings with horns all I get is ‘testing the bells today?’ or ‘the bells are going off again’.
Guess it has something to do with bells being used a LOT more frequently in Canada that people only associate a bell with a fire alarm.
I guess that’s why in all of twoplyboy’s tests he calls them all “bell test” even though half of them are horns.
You mean the tests that he has decided to put back up you mean. LOL
Our school says electronic bell, but we have ASs, HSRs and Commander2s
In a hotel I was at, all the instructions said was:
The fire alarm sounds like a loud alarm sound.
Well that’ll sure help occupants know what to listen for!
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Spectralert Advances sound like hammer drills.
If I opened a school, I’d probably call it a “MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!”
A hotel I went to described the fire alarm as sounding like a loud siren. They had Gentex Commander 3/4s and sounder bases on the detectors in the hotel rooms.
Well now that makes absolutely no sense (unless they have all the Commanders set on “whoop” for some reason (though the Commander 4 doesn’t have the 2 & 3’s whoop tone for whatever reason) or that sign is left over from an older iteration of that system that did indeed emit a siren-like noise.
My middle school described SpectrAlert Advances in Code 3 high volume as “a loud, annoying bird.” LOL!
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Well considering the sound they make is arguably not too far off from the way some birds screech that actually kinda makes sense.