With its new SpectrAlert® Advance Speakers and Speaker Strobes, System Sensor has combined input from customers with the ingenuity of a dedicated engineering team to design the industry’s first plug-in speaker line.
Speakers have been particularly susceptible to ground faults because they take up more room in the back box, sometimes forcing installers to crush or pinch wires when pushing the wired speaker into the back box to be mounted. The plug-in design of SpectrAlert Advance reduces ground faults and associated costs by enabling installers to pre-wire mounting plates and dress wires before connecting the speakers. To further reduce ground faults, the speakers have a protective cover that eliminates exposed speaker components and prevents nicked wires. In addition, a shorting spring on the mounting plate tests wiring continuity to provide instant feedback to installers during the installation.
SpectrAlert Advance Speakers transmit the clear, intelligible messages needed during emergency situations. The SP line of high-fidelity speakers can be selected for crisp, clean signals, and the SPV line of high-volume speakers can be chosen to command attention in environments with high ambient noise levels.
Like all products in the SpectrAlert Advance line, Speakers and Speaker Strobes include all the innovative features that make SpectrAlert Advance the broadest, most versatile audible/visible notification appliances in the industry.
For example, field-selectable candela settings and 12- or 24-volt operation make a single device adaptable to a wide range of applications, simplifying inventory, specification and installation. In addition, SpectrAlert Advance Speaker Strobes offer the lowest current draw available on all candela settings, with measurable savings especially on the high candela models. This enables more appliances to be installed on a single circuit, reducing installation time and project costs.
Following are features available throughout the SpectrAlert Advance product line:
- Plug-in design
- Electrical compatibility with legacy SpectrAlert products
- Field-selectable candela settings on wall and ceiling units
- Universal mounting plate fittings for both wall- and ceiling-mounted units
- Compatibility with System Sensor synchronization protocol
- Automatic selection of 12- or 24-volt operation at 15 and 15/75 candela
- Inclusion of an optional tamper-resistant Torx head screw
Tags: A/V Notification, Mass Notification, Speakers and Strobes
Posted in Audible/Visible Notification, Commercial, Design and Installation, Mass Notification, Spring 2009
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