Went to elementary school with you, was reminded of you when talking about fire alarms. pleasantly surprised your still passionate about this topic, awesome stuff

Awesome explanation. Is a good explanation of why buildings need voice evacuation systems.

That Gentex SHG remote strobe you talked about last video was actually called Gentex GXS.

As someone who lives in a major city, I’ve always wondered this. Great explanation!

The alarm at 2:57 uses a Notifier System, most of USC does Source: I've seen it go off in March 2020. Does code-3

Cant wait to see what you have for the April system test (great video as well)

Awesome explanation. Is a good explanation of why some buildings need voice evacuation systems.

On the contrary my apartment building is a 10-story high rise with 150 apartments, but it has a grandfathered traditional horn system. They did technically upgrade the system in 2019, but they chose to grandfather in a horn system rather than putting in a voice system, which beats me. I would have opted for the voice myself since it's a large building. They did replace the Wheelock 7002s, with EST Genesis, and replace the IRC3 with an EST3 panel, and a few other components, but it is still a traditional horn system, there's no speakers.

This is a well produced video! Even standalone small stores commonly have voice systems now. The benefits of voice systems are very great. The only time where I don’t see a voice system as ever being necessary is in a small, standalone building. Even a normal grocery store I think should always have voice.

I wonder why a lot of stores have this same exact set up where you have random fire alarms, with green strobe commander 3s around the doors. A grey colored spirnkler bell right next to some sort of ademco 702

I love the speaker strobes every single speaker. I love.

I’ve seen voice evac systems in gas stations that were their own building

4:08 This is true. Fore example, a Walmart in my area was built around 2014 with a voice evac system that also doubles as a paging and background music system. Also, at least in my area, all new schools must have voice evac.

My old Middle School used to have a Simplex system. I believe a Simplex 4100U but I could be wrong. But it got replaced with a Notifier Voice Evac system. I bet a NFS2-640 or NFS2-3030 but am not sure.

Interesting topic! Thanks for the information!

Something I notice is that larger restaurants in specifically Florida all seem to have voice evac systems. Even standalone chain restaurants like olive garden are like that there, unlike other states.

Great video

In an assembly occupancy typically 300 people or more the intent is to try and counter group adaptive behavior. This is the tendency of lager groups of people to not leave without specific instructions to do so. In other words scientific studies show that the crowd won’t leave without instructions. This is why you see voice evacuation systems in churches, theaters, and other types of gathering spaces.

Very nice video! Just came back from Disney World and I saw a lot of wheelock speaker strobe devices, also some Wheelock AS’s and a few Gentex Commander 3’s

I work in a large factory with a voice alert system. there are red GE loudspeaker horns everywhere and a mix of spectlert and spectralert advance strobes everywhere. Oddly they do not play an evacuation message or even an emulated code 3 alarm, it it a repeditive high to low pitch for thr fire alarm. The other side of the factory has intrinsically safe horns, steobes, and pull stations. A mix of weelock and edwards, but i do not go t to go on that side of the building often. The intrinsically safe horns are continuous tone when the fire alarm goes off though.

At our local mall, the new Round 1 arcade has a voice evac system but the whole rest of the mall just has horn strobes. Why do you think the Round 1 arcade has that type of alarm and the new Target store and everywhere else do not?

there was a chinese buffet by my house that had a really nice spectra alert clasic voice evac system. When the pandemic hit, the restaurant closed, and didn't reopen until about 9 months ago because someone bought it. when it reopened, the voice evac system had been removed and was replaced with l-series horn strobes. i think it was pretty weird that they had a voice evac system in there, but it was sad to see it go

Perfect explanation.

Nice video keep up the great work man

There are voice evac systems in some Walmarts and Sam's Clubs.

0:40 wow so is the genesis really so old that the l-series speakers replaced them

My old elementary school is installing voice evac it's small school to

Although not a regulation to have voice evac, NZ alarm systems are usually ALWAYS paried with a "Pertronic" EVAC50W24V voice/tone amplifier, making each system have the ability to have a voice with different tones. Although one tone is usually used (under NZS 4512:2010 regulations), many can be chosen with a voice evac. Most buildings in NZ have one tone, but it completely varies on the system age and devices used depending on what the owner of said shops want. So, you'll never really find a code 3 tone, or anything such, just the same tone used over and over again as of NZS 4512:2010.

Walmart is no stranger to a voice evac system, infact they are also used as general intercoms

I was wondering why my Walmart has Voice evac until i watched this video BTW my city had EST Voice evac because there we're retail, apartment, hotels, and even government services for passport, deparment of motor vehicles, etc

Theres a teen challenge thrift store i know of thats in a complex from what i remember and it has E70 speaker/strobes.

i’ve never actually seen/heard a voice evac in real life. all the buildings on my campus are old as hell.

General signals in the beginning and 1:04 also my local walmart has a wheelock speaker strobe system

I needed this! Cool video

Awesome video!

Florida be like (joke poking at floridas insane amount of voice evac)

Hello, I love your fire alarm videos, very impressed. About that “destroy my house” thing: Please don’t destroy your house, it’s very beautiful. I just wanted to say that it’s nice. Because I saw it in that Christmas fire alarm video. But I still love your content. Also, what’s the grey fire alarm with the blue strobe? I’m intrigued to find out!

1:05 what is that gentex commander 3 for

But it doesn't matter why there's fire alarm system in small stores it really doesn't matter

Nice video, but what’s with the plain speaker strobes in the Trader Joe’s?

First Photo do you have a video of it or it’s a image from Google

You skipped that all schools are required to have voice evac now when going over what kinds of buildings are required too

Please recreate your first video

Malls have that

Yo, wsp Tim