I recently came across this voice evac that sounds like an EST system, there’s only a message in the video and there is a incascedent light, suggesting a system possibly from the late 80s or early 90s.
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Interesting… interesting indeed! Looks like there is an 8X speaker strobe in that shot.
I know of at least 4 messages that include the phrase “Do not enter the fire exit”, & that is one of them: two of the others are Edwards/EST messages. A friend of mine says that it could possibly be an Edwards/EST IRC-3 with an MVM message module.
Very interesting, would it so happen to have the DTMF 1-1-1 Tone? The voice also sounds different from the said video in the DTMF 1-1-1 post.
What do you mean: the one message I didn’t go into? (which is neither the two Edwards/EST ones nor the one in this video)
I do have a feeling this could be a Wheelock Safepath, since the flashing strobe could be a early 90s/pre-ADA E90 or E70,
The voice sounds like EST or Wheelock
I know at least this MXL system played a “do not enter the fire exit” message. Then again, almost any voice system can play almost any message if they just put on a custom message.
Yeah, that’s one of them.
A friend of mine says that there’s a chance the first video in this topic shows a system with a rare Edwards panel called the “5800”.
This message is quite common in high-rises in Philly, regardless of system manufacturer.
Here’s a random office building in the city that uses these messages: Welcome to 2 Liberty Place's Tenant® Portal
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I doubt, it’s most likely an EST system with Edwards 892s.
I think it’s more likely to be an IRC-3
According to a friend of mine it’s either an Edwards 5800 or 8500 going by the creation dates of the IRC-3’s messages, which were recorded in the 1990s & sound nothing like the one in that video.
I’ve yet to wonder if the Firecom 8X could’ve ever had an actual voice message as well. That would’ve been interesting if it did, but then again nobody knows for sure because they are either
A, hidden somewhere probably not to ever be found;
or B, replaced/retrofitted (and scrapped afterwards).
The same applies to the Edwards IRC-3, and the Honeywell W940, among other systems/panels.
Someone mentioned in a different thread that the IRC-3 used the same voice module as the EST3.
I’m not sure if that’s true, but at least a few of Edwards-EST’s current tones are said to have debuted with the IRC-3 & have been used on every voice-capable Edwards panel made since it.