I am so guilty of that it is not even funny. I was so pissed off when my college replaced the 4051 hors with Advanced speakers that it is not even funny.
60/120HZ gets your adrenaline rushing, reminding you of old horns (guilty)
You jump out of your skin when you hear certain timbres/pitches that remind you of fire alarms you have heard before (guilty)
Guilty, I overheard guests at the hotel I was staying at said the fire alarms went off the night before. I guess I arrived one day too late. It apparently was a malfunctioning beam detector in the indoor pool atrium because I saw the LED’s on it were whacky and a Simplex service guy was at the hotel the next day.
Not guilty. Not my first priority at least…
Guilty. But I always wait and see. I’m curious about other things going on during the building process of a building too. :lol:
You know you like fire alarms when…
Every flash of a strobe makes you turn at the fire alarm (Guilty)
You draw fire alarms (Guilty every day)
You are sad when scottparsons2008 smashes a spectralert (Guilty)
You are here on The Fire Panel every day (Guilty)
You have a fire alarm on your birthday cake (Guilty)
-When you carry a camera everywhere with you, just in case you happen to catch a fire alarm going off somewhere (guilty)
-When you see a FA renovation going on, you check the garbage bins for old alarms (innocent)
-When they tear down a building and you look through the rubble for FAs (guilty)
-You take normal speakers, mount them around the house, connect them to your computer and play a voice evacuation message over them (guilty once)
When you get pissed off for buildings switching out alarms that were rare or that you liked
(Guilty)
When you ask to pull the alarm for a drill
(Guilty)
When you put a simplex Tbar button attached to a wheelock 10" bell on your refrigerator door so you scare the shit out of your parents when they open it up (LOL, Guilty)
When you have a collection of 100+ alarms
(Innocent)
When you take a FA and sound it off outside your friends dorm room as a prank(guilty)
When you try to find the FA’s every time you go into a building(guilty)
When you look online to find pics of rare or old alarms(guilty)
Dumpster diving for old alarms(guilty)
Pulling a working pull station(NOT guilty!)
Tempted to pull a working pull station(guilty)
Replacing your doorbell with an alarm(not guilty, thought about it)
Using a pull station as a light switch(not guilty, not recommended*)
Leaving phone numbers at places with cool alarms when you see some other work being done.(guilty)
*since most pull stations are only rated for 24 volts, but 120 volt 3 amp pulls are out there, and it would be a nuisance to reset it to turn the light of all the time.
-You blink your eyes like a strobe when watching fire alarm videos (VERY Guilty)
-Your iPhone has the camera flasher on and your ringtone is a 7002T (Guilty)
-You hope somebody pulls the fire alarm at school (Always in the back of my mind)
-You point out to your friends the fire alarms when your with them (Guilty Once so far)
-You pull your own alarm off when your family is sleeping and say “Surprise Fire Drill!” weekly (Not yet )