I don’t know what fire code may say about strobe coverage, but in any case (including general signaling as this would be considered) strobes should obviously be noticeable enough, which is partially determined by the reflector design: in this case unlike the Advance’s the reflector on wall mount L-series’ models is not designed for ceiling mounting, as a good portion of the light will be reflected downward by it, thus throwing the light in one particular direction in the case of a ceiling-mounted wall mount device.
Just found this picture posted:
It shows a Gentex Commander 5 being used as the signal. This may mean that the BluePoint alarm can be used without being connected to a PA or fire alarm system to play the tone/message since the Commander 5 already has unique tones that are easy to distinguish from a fire alarm signal.
EDIT:
Upon further investigation, I also found a green MEDICAL labeled device:
(Seen on the right)
As far as I know, we’ve only seen medical pull stations and not medical strobes/horn strobes
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I guess it makes sense. The whoop tone would be perfect. I had always suspected that they would come out with a horn/strobe signal, but I thought they would use a System Sensor horn/strobe on the 3k continuous setting or a chime/strobe on the whoop setting.
Does this mean they are ending their relationship with System Sensor, or are they just expanding their product range?
Not sure if they are ending the SS relationship, but it definitely is cool that there are the Gentex devices now.
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It would be cool if they also made a bluepoint Truealert to be used on simplex systems.
A local daycare/EC center installed a bluepoint system. And it appears that the system is hooked up through the existing voice evac system.
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Oh wow..rather neat (nice to see the Commander’s 5 trim ring fully blue unlike that one L-series device).
Yeah. I also found this photo (the security one is new, while all the others are not. Also note how the security faceplate fully replaces the BluePoint logo with a correct background color one unlike on the others):
Not likely to happen at all given Simplex’s exclusiveness & the fact that BluePoint systems are completely separate from existing fire alarm systems.
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I have never seen a Hazmat Spill station in a real life example.
Neither have I, but if BluePoint becomes much more prevalent than it is now a lot of us might start seeing them in real life.
I have never seen bluepoint pulls of any type in real life.
The local school district has Centegix strobes and wearable Centegix buttons for safety, though Bluepoint pulls would be useful since not everyone is wearing a Centegix badge at all times.
Indeed they would be, though BluePoint also offers wearable buttons so they have you covered there too.