OP stated in the video and has confirmed on Discord that it indeed flashed yellow.
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Are there any recordings of the horns doing broadband T4? The video you embedded as well as the video discussed in this thread both show 3000 Hz T4. Also, the latter recording does not appear to have yellow flashing, so the flash color might be a separate component of the new sync protocol (possibly for amber MNS alerts), or it might be related to the FCP candela.
It happened to mine also when I had a slight disconnect while powering my p2grled and it made temporal 4 3000hz instead of the selected tone.
Did your strobe flash yellow? It looked white in the video you recorded.
Mine didnt it was normal strobe that flashed I used 12 volts
The yellow flash is probably a separate feature that is meant to replace dual strobes for combined fire/MNS systems. Many online photos of LED L-Series strobes have a yellow component in the middle of the strobe lens, which might be how the flash becomes yellow.
was the strobe selector on fcp? maybe I used to low voltage and wrong strobe setting
To be fair, that one was set to an invalid tone.
Did that happen when it was set to a valid tone?
That would make the most sense, however I fail to see how that would be allowed on fire-marked devices. Guess weâll see when Honeywell releases new information or productsâŚ
It probably isnât allowed to be used in general, but it is easier to make one strobe board for use on all devices instead of making separate fire/MNS strobe boards. Also, a FIRE-marked device could later have an ALERT bezel added to it, making the yellow flash usable, and on a FIRE-marked device, the yellow flash could potentially be used for private mode.
when it did t4 when I switched it to a normal tone, It didnt do yellwow strobe but ill have to expirement some more to see if i need to select fcp on the strobe selector Mine is a p2grled so maybe it also only works on the p2rled
I figured the t4 out! It says on the back of the alarm that 1,2,5,6 sounds are Temp3/TEMP4 ! even in broadband
sorry for bad video: IMG_2471.MOV - Google Drive
According to the speaker strobe manual, these speaker strobes will have lower sound output than the old speaker strobes. The 2-watt tap will now output 83 dBA, previously achievable by the 1-watt tap (which now outputs 82 dBA).
Just got a âtechnical bulletinâ from System Sensor via email, notifying customers that System Sensor identified a flaw concerning the ability of the LED L-Seriesâ mounting plates to correctly detect when a device is removed: only been out a year or so & already a ârecallâ of sorts (goddang Honeywell I tell youâŚ). Here is the bulletin in question in case anybody is interested in reading it:
TB25.1SS_System Sensor AV Mounting Plate with L-Series.pdf
The probing test ports are revolutionary for all system sensor horn strobes. The xenon horn strobes never had a feature. System sensor is the only company to design something like this.
Based on this list, it looks to me like the issue can actually affect any System Sensor L-Series or LED device produced between 6/3/24 and 10/31/24.
Yeah, I wouldnât personally install a System Sensor device right now (or for that matter any Honeywell product but thatâs a lot more unavoidable). I would go for Gentex preferably or Wheelock if I needed LED devices. The same goes for Simplex/Autocall products (particularly their TrueAlertES devices, as they seem to be having a high failure rate as well.
Oh? JeezâŚ
Same here, though given Wheelock really isnât that good nowdays given their parent (much like Honeywell & JCI) Iâd likely only go with Gentex or Edwards (probably the former given theyâre seemingly the only manufacturer to still make 4-wire NAs, though perhaps if Honeywell finally solved these quality control issues for good maybe Iâd go with System Sensor L-Series NAs too, even if not all of them are available as 4-wire models).
I saw LED L-Series devices yesterday at SeaWorld Orlando.
Yeah, I agree with you.
As a side note, Wheelock actually does still make a 4-wire device: the ELMTS. Thatâs why Siemens is still rebranding that device and selling it despite their new devices having almost the same features. They still need to offer a device that can replace their older 4-wire devices while still using the same Siemens sync protocol.
Glad you do: seems like nobody cares about once-great brands suffering under the rule of their parent companies these days.
Oh, really? Okay. HuhâŚ(one would think that Eaton/Wheelock wouldnât bother given 2-wire is practically standard nowdays (even though non-fire applications might still need 4-wire & thus why itâs a good idea to make notification appliances that can be either, like Gentexâs)