I’ve seen the rebranded Advance strobes and BG-12 manual stations they already released, but add-ons for the L-Series? So far, I see System Sensor themselves selling blue lenses, but not any POLICE bezels. The image looks like a digital mock-up, so this could very well just be a theoretical accessory, as I can’t find it anywhere on the BluePoint Alert website. However, I am looking forward to what this advert can suggest (maybe we can also get MEDICAL bezels?). I only just found out about this, so do notify me if I happen to be late to this discovery. Any thoughts on this?
[post-script: there seems to be a lot more of these renders when you search up bluepoint on the web, but i can’t find them on their website still.]
Well considering the Advance-series is largely discontinued it would just make sense for System Sensor to also make L-series devices for BluePoint to replace the Advance ones they were making for them (though if you ask me the fact that the shell of the L-series device isn’t also blue like the Advance’s was is kinda stupid).
Huh, thought that they were just making bezels for the L-series, as it looks like they just modified a ceiling L-series bezel and slapped it onto an SCWL in the render I found & provided.
Sorry for the necro, but I have had visual confirmation on the bezels.
Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head with this one. I wonder if the LED variant will look any different.
Sorry for the bad angle, the strobe wasn’t meant to be the centerpiece here. This is a new addition to a school, completed late last year. Unrelated to the topic, but even for this school, look at how bland those walls are… This was taken about three months after it opened…
It’s a Siemens SLSPSCR-F speaker/strobe. Siemens was rebranding Wheelock/Eaton LED-3 devices as the SL- series up until some time in 2023. They switched to the SL2- series (rebranded Eluxa devices) for around a year until they released the SC- series in 2024. The installers were likely using up old stock, or the devices were ordered a while back for the project. I know, for example, the auditorium area at my high school was finished in May of this year and they have a mix of SL-, SL2-, and SC- series devices.
This is getting away from the topic of this post, so I’ll keep this short. I’ll be honest, I thought they were Eluxas, but I’m not well-versed in Wheelock equipment. aerhardt’s reply above mine seems like a reasonable explanation. If memory serves me correctly, the addition was started sometime in 2023 and opened at the end of 2024. I’m not sure when the FA system went in, but the building itself was mostly complete long before the classrooms were ready. Panel is an XLS with a (presumably repurposed) MXL cabinet sitting next to it. Not sure why they added voice capability to the panel specifically for this addition when the rest of the school is on horn-strobes (various Wheelock models, including 7002Ts, and plenty of UMHUs), guess I’d have to see if local codes changed.
Anyway, back to the bezels, BluePoint had this picture on their Instagram (link to the Wayback Machine in case the embed disappears). Apparently, each of the three sides has different lettering, and you have to know what BluePoint is in order to understand two of them. Interesting choice.
I wonder if BluePoint still offers wall-mount strobe options, now that the SpectrAlerts have been discontinued. I’m assuming that if they do, they would use a bezel similar to the ceiling-mount devices. I think the ceiling-mount version still makes the most sense for most applications (and apparently, that school agreed because they had the old wall-mount Advance strobes on the ceiling in the cafeteria), but I could see some customers wanting or needing wall-mount options depending on the space.
Funnily enough, I saw that picture a couple of weeks ago and completely forgot it existed. Strange choice from the installer to use a wall-mount on the ceiling when a ceiling-mount option exists, but maybe they had a stock issue.
Not only that but possibly against code too given the wall-intended reflector design (sure, being a general signaling device means it’s likely exempt from fire alarm code, but general signaling code might still have something to say about a wall-mount device being used on the ceiling).
