Ah, it's that time of year again. Colleges have let classes out for the summer, graduation ceremonies have been held, and the dorms are once again empty and ready for alarm testing! This college campus has an EST network with a FireWorks computer set up at the campus police station to monitor all the building systems. Although not seen, the panel in this building is an EST3. As you can see (and hear), this particular dorm has Wheelock NS horn/strobes, RSS remote strobes, and smokes with sounders in the dorm rooms. The majority of the sounders have the Integrity-style sounder, but some that have been added/replaced more recently have the Genesis-style sounder. The sounder/smokes are not in sync with the horn/strobes, but all the horn/strobes are synced together and all the sounder/smokes are synced together. A few of the rooms (including one seen in the video) have had strobes retrofitted in for ADA reasons (not in sync with the signals in the halls). During testing, we left the doors open so that during the bell test, we can close them as we check each room's sounder/smoke. I checked the rooms on floors 2 and 3, and my colleague checked the 1st and Ground floor levels. Enjoy the long vid!
29 сен 2024