Potter Is Now Using Wheelock Eluxa Devices!

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@TheCarson116

Speaking of Edwards’, for some reason they demonstrated the Genesis LED replacement for the WG4 all the way back in 2022 going by this video on r/firealarms, but only in 2024 (a full two years later!) did they actually finally release them: no idea what took them so long to do so especially with, again, how relatively-finished they seemed at the time of that 2022 demonstration.

Oh, I must have misremembered then.

@TheCarson116

I’m honestly starting to think that no companies (even those not in the life safety industry) have any business announcing a product unless it’s being released immediately at the time of the announcement, since it really doesn’t make sense to then wait after the announcement before actually releasing the product: you get people all hyped up & then you kill that hype if you do the latter.

It’s possible that Gentex announced the Commander5 in response to Potter’s transition to Wheelock in order to avoid losing Hochiki and National Time, both of which still rebrand Gentex equipment.

Gentex also seems to produce some specialized equipment for Potter, such as the AC-powered version of the GX-93 and the speaker/low frequency detector bases based on the SSPK series speakers. I do not know what will be happening to these devices.