One of our low-voltage vendors, LVC, is in the process of replacing and upgrading the building fire/security panel for the Opera Center. Tomorrow morning is set to be the Big Day when we actually swap the panel out and test to make sure it’s working as expected. Because they’ll need to test every component that interfaces with the board, part of the process will be to set off all of the fire-alarm horn/strobes. This will look and feel like our recent fire drill, which is to say, bright, blinky, and loud!
I don’t yet have an exact time for this test – we’ll have a better idea once things start moving tomorrow. But we expect it to be “mid-to-late-morning”, roughly anywhere from 9-noon. We pledge, in any case, not to disrupt the Orchestra’s activities that begin in the early afternoon. Worst case, we’ll hold off on testing until a later date.
The test will be brief, and I’ll make my way through the building alerting folks before we do it.