Sony
Active Member
Interesting info. I've never heard of that before. I like to think I could trust a crew to react appropriately by killing the sound and bringing up the lights themselves but it's nice that there's a way to idiot-proof it.
Rhode Island also requires it, they just installed this type of system at our theatre here about 3 weeks ago. The fire alarm system will automatically set our house dimming system into Override mode and turn on the lights, then it will kill all the power to our soundboard so everyone can hear the alarm and then third and last, it will kill our air handling system so that it wont circulate the smoke or feed the fire with fresh air.