Exit and Emergency | Episode 16 - Remote Heads 

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You can put the remote heads anywhere in the building if the wire is sized appropriately. The heads themselves are almost industry standard voltages with most being 12v on larger installations(heads around perimeter of big ball room, head on each landing of stairways, heads in each room of a building+like classrooms)) or 6v on smaller installation (ore or two heads on the exterior outside of an emergency exit door, or one head in a bathroom and an emergency light with one head in in the other bathroom). Here is a video of remote heads in a building in a power outage. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uaJ_aVniDH8.html Here is a video of the same buildings battery units powering his remote heads. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S6-TMhQ-3vs.html

Thank you so much! I’m happy you enjoyed this video! To answer your questions: 1) You can have remote heads as close or as far away from the “main unit” as you’d like. As long as the wire is under the maximum length recommended by the manufacturer. In my case, I had a short wire since I didn’t have not a lot of room to space out the remote heads. 2) To make sure a given remote head is compatible with an exit sign, emergency light, or “emergency unit” you need to check on the specs. Remote heads will indicate the voltage and amperage they require. While the remote capable exit sign or emergency light or “emergency unit” will also indicate its output voltage and amperage. If both match each other, you are good to go! 3) Lastly, for the “emergency units” they are self powered like an emergency light is. They have a battery on the inside and when the power is cut, will transfer to the battery power to turn on the remote head(s). Yeah it is annoying that there is not official names. These often go by emergency unit, emergency pack, inverter, headless/lampless emergency light, and a few others. Again, each manufacturer seems to call it something different and I’ve never understood why this is. I hope this answered all of your questions! Let my know of theres anything I need to clarify. And yes, that last exit sign with the fire alarm flash was pretty cool! I’d like to start including remote heads in my future videos since again not a lot of people talk about them for some reason. Thanks for you comment!

Thanks! Yes Sure-Lites has definitely stepped up their game. Depending on the situation, I’d consider them an okay substitute for Dual-Lite.

​@ExitSign250 The Remote heads are a 200/10

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I have seen NZ emergency lights before on a few videos. To what I understand, they are only required at exit doors. Is this correct? In the US, they are required everywhere in a building and must be spaced out accordingly.

@ExitSign250 well, no. I don't think that's correct because I've seen them throughout a mall near to me. However, they are quite high up and over a ledge or something. But no, they aren't required by exit doors as I've seen them on the walls inside, outside, and the ceiling inside.

I see. Interesting information.

@ExitSign250 Well, that's from what I saw. I've never seen an emergency light above a door in NZ. Only on walls outside, inside, and on the ceiling.

Many different exit sign manufacturers offer signs that have the fire alarm flash feature. It’s a very uncommon option however. You can do research to see if there are any signs that you like that have this option available.

That’s one big doorbell then haha.

Yep! Back when incandescent was king, this was an option if you wanted exit signs to have battery backup and if you didn’t want to maintain the batteries in each sign.

No, only the exit sign itself will flash. This feature is to only grab occupants attention in a building to guide them to the nearest exit. If you think about it, it wouldn’t make the most sense to have the remote heads flashing. Thanks for your question!

Thanks for clarifying that

It depends on the variant of the EZ2. Depending on the age, it might require a 4V battery or a 6V battery. Do you still have the original battery that doesn’t work?

It did not come with the batter seller said it works but needs new batteries

I think it says on the label volt 4.07 or something similar does that me a 4 volt battery?

What are the markings on the inside label say?

The inside says output 4 volts Input:120-277 Battery: replace with 4.70+

Same

Yep! There were definitely interesting looking!

No, why do you ask?

@@ExitSign250 I was wondering when the next episode will be coming out.

Hopefully the next one will be out soon!