The script in that video is the same as the Edwards script used at my school, strangely (my school has an EST3 system, which is newer than the voice evac used in the video.) So, it it unlikely the Entergy Tower had an Edwards voice system at the time of filming. It had either a Honeywell DeltaNet FS90/W940, Simplex 2001, Cerberus Pyrotronics pre-MXL voice panel, or a FCI FireVac III.
Any word on what alarms were in that warehouse? I am pretty happy we are getting closer to ending this panel mystery
I doubt it had a Simplex 2001 systen, as the voice sounds nothing like the Simplex voice, but the hotel in âour hotel burnt downâ which has a similar voice, is in South Carolina, and that hotel has a new Simplex system, so could it be, that the same voice actor worked for FCI, Simplex, and Cerberus?
Maybe that is the case! Or, Honeywell, FCI, Simplex, and Cerberus all used the same tone generator for the evac message.
The system is a Honeywell DeltaNet FS90, according to a comment by Alexanderâs Fire Alarms on YouTube. This is very likely the same model system in the Entergy Tower as the whoop tone sounded very similar and the voice matched the Entergy voice and was very similar to the âDTMF 111â voice evac system, posted about by Nickâs Mad Science.
Alright then, thatâs that solved I guess: now all that remains are the hotel in âour hotel burnt downâ, the hospital in âFIRE ALARM Goes Off During SURGERY! Open House 2017â, Steelcase Pyramid, & whatever building the voice system in that âRetro Gaming Radio Intervewâ video is in.
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Alexanderâs Fire Alarms also stated that there were pics of the panel in the Entergy Tower, but I could not find any.
At the 4:56 timestamp of this video, a Honeywell FS90 can be heard doing the longest slow whoop ever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydFOJB84wI Same tone as Steelcase Pyramid before theirs got the axe like Flamingo
This was when Flamingo was replacing the old system in the 2010s from what I believe
So Steelcase Pyramid is solved: they also have the Honeywell FS90, just like the Entergy Tower!
You donât suppose the duration of the FS90âs whoop can be changed do you? (which is why it seems different on every system, just like the 2001/2120âs as this video by Nickâs Mad Science shows. Also note the fact that thereâs a second whoop tone in the video you linked which sounds like one of Notifierâs: very odd that there would be two different voice systems in the same building if you ask me)
InterestingâŚseems like âVernonâ from âAirplane!â was one of Honeywellâs/the FS90âs regular voice actors back in the day then going by the description of the Steelcase Pyramid video! (that & the fact that a number of other buildings use voice-capable FS90s with seemingly similar male voice actors) What exactly confirms Steelcase Pyramid as having previously had an FS90 though? (& maybe Entergy Tower too, especially since Iâve seen other people say âFCI Firevac IIIâ & âHoneywell W940â)
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My local amusement center used to have an old Honeywell voice evac system at one point. The pull stations were Honeywell S464 pull stations (the addressable version) and Gentex SPKE4-1575WR speaker strobes. I never heard the system go off before, so I wouldnât know if the system has the same voice message or tone as the Entergy Tower or the hotel from âour hotel burnt downâ. The system was replaced in 2018 with a Silent Knight system with L Series ceiling mount speaker strobes and SK-PULL stations.
Current panel
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I might have found a Honeywell voice evac system at the World Trade Center in Los Angeles while going through street views (yes, that is the actual name of the place).
It uses Wheelock speaker strobes similar to the ones at Pittsburgh International Airport, which also has a Honeywell system.
Iâll take the WTC Honeywell system with a grain of salt, considering the street views are from 2018.
I think I found another Honeywell FS90, this video being from 2008, there is a chance that it is a Honeywell system since there were still some back then
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Good find! Wonder if thatâs further evidence that the FS90âs tone generator can have its pitch modified, given the pitch of the whoop tone in that video (which is so high-pitched it reminds me of that one EST2 slow whoop tone).
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Sorry if this was already posted, but I stumbled upon this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVG1mU6fd7k It has 1âst generation RMS-1Tâs and Advance speakers, but the whoop sounded similar
Good find (again): seems like thatâs the exact opposite of the previous video posted here given the pitch of the whoop tone. According to âSimplexEAS2019â in the comments section it is indeed an FS90 (though we canât be sure from just that). The super-rare 1st-gen RMS-1T is an added bonus too (without ESL branding for once as well).
Checked the same building on Google Maps the video was taken in, found a Simplex smoke detector and a Federal Signal speaker.
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The patent for the tone generator did mention pitch-changing and also this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Sxq5_EIT4&list=PLMdBMAPltPETFP8YH4oUFsNrXAu5UHGKr&index=79
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Really? Does that mean that the one in that (honestly weird-as-heck given its subject matter) âteddy bear surgeryâ video is also an FS90? (if so how do you know that particular tone comes from an FS90: is there a document somewhere that says something like âthree DTMF â1â beepsâ?)
It probably is, the person doing the message sounds similar to the other Honeywell FS90s videos on YouTube (excluding the one at the Pittsburgh International Airport)