horn/strobes in restrooms.

[firefreak57]

@harrison

I’ve seen it in a few cases. Never seems justified because yes, you can have too many decibels. In one case, I was doing work in a nursing home, and I noticed that not only did all the rooms seem to have SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes, but also all the private bathrooms! It turned out when I tested the audibles, though, that they were not horn/strobes but chime/strobes.

Speaking of chimes, in at least two buildings on the University of Arizona campus, I have seen chime/strobes as an alternative to remote strobes or horn/strobes in multi-stall restrooms. These were mechanical Simplex chimes on pre-TrueAlert ADA strobe plates. Haven’t seen this anywhere else, but it seems like a reasonable idea.

My elementary school was built in 2010 (where I used to live; where I live now the buildings are about 60-80 years old, respectively), and they had an EST 3 system complete with Genesis horn strobes in every 20 x 20 classroom and in the restrooms. Plus they’d be spaced in the hallways so that there’d be a ton out there.