All right. Hello, everyone. Let's get rolling with this, shall we? This month, we'll be going over the public address and voice evacuation system, that is the VX3000 series. With me today, I have Keith, who is our Product Development Manager, and he'll be leading you all through the ins and outs of what the VX3000 series can provide.
for your facilities and applications with next month being the much more in-depth look into specific applications purposes and how you can customize it however you see fits uh without further ado i shall pass this over to keith and michelle uh leads to the presentation uh good afternoon everyone my name is keith i am the product development manager here at tiaway canada i'm happy to introduce to you today the vx 3000 series the bx 3000 series is the uh T-Way's flagship distributed PA system, intended for voice evacuation and to some extent background music and other music or audio applications. So this presentation will, the scope of it will be mostly an introduction into the system outlining the specific components, how the system works and basic integration with already existing T-Way products. it will i'll try not to go deep into the details of it i'll give you a brief overview on a broad appreciation of the vx3000 and how can it be useful for certain applications and projects that you may encounter in the field so the contents today i'll go first with the system introduction uh components uh we'll discuss frames modules i'll get to define those and explain those with you the accessories mics and extensions and how the supply power supply is handled with the VX2000 considering it's intended for redundancy and backup applications. I'll go over some frame configurations and then go with the integration with N8000, VSP 11n and IPA1 systems as examples.
That's not the full extent of it but those are key systems that you may encounter in the field or something similar that that seeing how those integrate with the vx3000 can give you an idea of how they uh can work together so what is the vx3000 it is basically a distributed audio control audio and control system it is ip based so it's full tcp ip that means that it works with regular switches and network structures that are already set up for general networking for your internet and email and other applications so it's easy to piggyback onto the existing it network and use that as a conduit for distribution for long distance audio and virtual signals it's designed for critical systems requiring redundancy and power backup so the vx3000 is designed with battery backup in mind uh redundancies in mind and reporting in mind so you can configure every time there's a fault there's fault detection in the system and it will automatically tie it since it's already tied to the it system you can configure that so that you can send an email or alarm and uh notification should any system fail or there's a shutdown happening it has multiple functionalities covered in one system it has a built-in amplifier DSP and if you're familiar with the NX 300 and NX 100 IP systems, those are also readily connected. They actually use the same sampling and protocols with the VX3000. There's also built-in message recorder so there's no need for an external recorder for the system and most of all this one the VX3000 can scale to size that you need whether it's just a couple of channels, or if you need several zones for large projects, this will work.
So the best way to introduce the VX3000 is to categorize it to several components of the system. One is the frame, which is the main chassis, which is kind of the overall framework, as it has the term frame, for the system. the modules they are the either amplifier modules or line level output modules that can be configured depending on what you want out of the uh vx3000 the third category is paging mics and extensions these are more for input um input purposes so if you have paging uh required a paging might could work or if you want to uh expand the number of inputs say you have multiple audio sources and uh third-party devices that you want to use as an input to the system you can use an extension as well there's also system accessories for that uh for the VX3000 accessories dedicated for control that means volume control and contact closer triggers so if you say press a button on this uh accessory it will trigger a contact closure or uh the the uh remote endpoint that is programmed to it.
Audio IO can also be expanded for us as needed. Finally, we'll discuss the power supply, which is the the the base of the VX3000 and which that where it lies the heart of our fault detection, our monitoring, surge protection and other critical systems that will be useful for activities. Okay, so let's start with the frames.
So the primary chassis is the, or known as, well, we call it the frame. It's the one that houses the modules and facilitates IP connectivity with each other. So if you look at this small diagram on the top right-hand side, it shows the network connectivity of each frame, and they're connected with each other over the network. The frames are similar in modularity. If you're familiar with the M9000, they have a similar structure the frames accept two types of modules one is the amplifier module and the other is the line level audio line level output module so depending on the type of frame you can configure the number of modules that you want as needed so you can be really flexible depending on the requirement of the uh the end user inputs include balanced line level audio it takes also dry contact inputs both for regular and emergency purposes and the rm link which is the paging my connectors that is uh proprietary to toa and the dm ds link the ds link is the uh connection that you connect to the uh the power distributor that we'll discuss later for monitoring of the power status and default issues.
The frames are consisted of three types of frames. So each frame kind of has a different flavor and a different implementation for specific purposes. So let's start with the VX3004. This is the four-channel frame, which is independent.
So as you can see here, each channel is independent from each other. as needed by the matrix which is programmable and you can feed whichever source that you want into each frame and then you can page you can get the input for paging from the paging mic the beauty of this is its function is similar to a dsp for example the m8080 plus a four channel amplifier so it's very straightforward four zones maps it can feed up to four zones separately without interference with each other you can slot modules from 105 watts to 350 watts on this so you have a wide range of flexibility and you can use only if you want only one up to four channels if needed the second type of frame is the vx 3008 so The way that this framework works is quite different from the 3004, such that there's two separate apps functioning. One is handling the paging application, and the other is handling the background music or other audio inputs that are being fed to the system.
The way this works is that there's a speaker selector, which is indicated as SS. in the diagram here. And when there's an active paging happening, from the paging mics or any third party source that you can program in.
It will automatically switch from the amplifier channel that's being fed by the page source from the existing channel which is being fed by the background music. So it can switch from one zone to the other. So the advantage of this is it can have much more zones.
the trade-off is that your amplifiers or your sources are quite restricted to two sources. There's a standby amp, by the way, on the... There's a third amplifier module that you can insert on the frame to act as a standby module for the purpose of redundancy.
The third type of frame is the 16-channel frame. follows a slightly similar structure as the eight channel frame but now this is devoted mostly for just pa applications background music is emitted in this one the beauty of this is now you can you can you're able to to service up to 16 zones as long as the amplifier module that is selected is spec to the overall wattage requirement power requirement of the the uh the respective zones so when there's a page happening the matrix selects the at the the channel that uh you want to uh to a page to and then broadcast it via the amplifier to that particular zone if there's an all call all zones are selected and broadcast throughout the system the trade-off here is that you forgo background music in exchange for a bigger zone and a large number of zones to select. So, as you can see, there's a wide range of flexibility and applications that you can consider and be more focused on the needs of the client as long as it's needed. So, let's move on to the modules. So there's, as mentioned earlier, there's two types of modules for the VX3000.
The first is the amplifier module and the second is the line output module. The amplifier module is straightforward. It is basically an amplifier in a module form that you can slot in into the VX3000 as needed.
Up to four modules can be started for the 3004 type of frame. And the wattage range ranges from 105 to 350 watts at 70 volts or if you can tap the high voltage system at 100 volts you can take advantage of 150 watts to 590 watts power output from each module the line level output module is a custom module for sending a line level signal out of the bx3000 say you want to feed a recording system for your project then you can slot a line output module on the VX3000 frame and use that to output to your third-party system. So as you can see here, you only get what you need. There's no difficulty of speccing an 8-channel amplifier for a 6-channel project, and two channels are not used for that purpose.
You only get what you need. You can spec. whatever you need as long as you're in with the parameters of the power requirements of your project let's move on to the paging mics and extensions there's three uh categories of paging mics available for the vx3000 system one is the regular paging mic which is the uh rm 300 uh there's the rm200 fireman mic which is dedicated for emergency use for our departments and the RM500 which is the newer more compact paging mic for the VX3000 this is able to handle up to 82 zones in the system 200x and the RM300x you can add extenders for it to increase the zone count that you can that you can page to in the system the Other category of components are the system accessories.
The VMX3000PM provides eight audio inputs and control inputs and also outputs, the same number of outputs to expand the capability of the VMX3000 system. If you have a higher, if you want to broadcast it to say existing amplifiers in your project, then we can add this to take advantage of that. The VMX3000CT provides nine buttons for for control assignable uh in the programming for the uh for pa functions and either volume control or the vx3000 system there's also uh knobs there for volume control that you can uh configure the uh last and i would say the most important part of the vx3000 is of course the power beauty of the vx3000 is now you have battery backup capability built in into the system using the VX3000DS power distributor and we recommend the Meanwell RCP1000 system from Meanwell to power the system. Each module slotted into the system has an independent power connection.
It runs on 24 volt DC and is supplied by the VX3000 or is the supplied by the RCP1000. a minimal power supply distributed via the VX2000DS. Each frame has to be supplied independently and each module has to be also supplied independently.
We designed this like that because we noticed that in the case where there's a short circuit on one of the channels that avoids failure cascading throughout the device. So not all channels are affected, only that one channel. is shut down and there's a fuse protection for it so that the power supply is protected.
The VX2000DS has the capability for fault monitoring, power monitoring, and also trickle charge any battery backup that you connect to it. It works with 24 volt batteries which often would be two 12-volt batteries lined up in series to supply the system in case of power failure. So let's look at some basic configurations for the three types of frames.
As you can see here, you can configure this is one of the small subsystems that you might encounter often in any implementation of the VX3000. You have the singular frame, the modules, four of them for this application. You have the remote microphone, RM300X or RM500X, or if it's only for emergency, you have the RM200 for that. And then because of the power draw of the system for this application, you can go up to two RCP1000 slotted into one RCP1UI, which is the power chassis that we provide.
we recommend for this for this setup so for this since there's a lot of modularity involved you will need to do your power calculations for the system that as as needed here's another configuration for this we're using the vx similar setup uh one one frame now we're using the vx 3000f we're using the 350 watt amplifier uh vx050da the amplifier module uh if you want two you can get away with that if you want three for redundancy as a backup uh standby hand you also have that option similar setup rm500 the paging microphone and the power supply lastly similar to earlier there's two frames now actually let me correct myself this should be one amplifier uh as a base and then you can expand it as a standby amplifier or thus making it two so there's this can handle up to 16 channels similar setup one paging microphone and the power supply now let's move on how this can be hypothetically integrated with other toy products and of course uh third party if you have an n8000 system you can connect this directly with a and a thousand di which is a digital input output uh device for the n8000 If you have audio outputs from any N8000RS, you can use the N-N8000LC module, the line level output adapter for the N8000RS, and then send it as a line level audio signal into the VX3000. And then if you have a SIP gateway, you can integrate that, the SIP system. into this one as well.
Integration with SP11N is straightforward. If you have the SP11N QRM or the external box, you can feed the audio output into the VX3000 and then feed the contact closures into the VX3000 system. Since it's just regular dry contact and audio inputs, very simple.
very straightforward finally the ipa1af newest uh ip based uh system from toa you can feed the control outputs again and line level outputs from it and use that to interface with your uh sip or voyage system and then feed that to the pa as well so what is the general takeaway from the bx3000 system scalability you can go up to large zones uh depending on on uh what what you need low wattage multiple zones you can you can customize it as much as you want it's much easier and simpler to integrate because it's using tcp ip uh you can even actually connect them with each other over dc chain no need for a switch there are some trade trade-offs with that but uh you have the option it's tailored for scaling so If you have big projects, say multiple warehouse in the same complex, you can connect multiple VX3000 systems in one warehouse to the other over fiber, over your existing TCP IP or your LAN network. Before I end this, I forgot to mention for the engineers out there, you might be interested in this. The sampling rate of the VX3000 is 48 kilohertz.
at 16-bit depth. The minimum requirement is 100 megabits per second, so that's 100 base T for the networking. So it's relatively lightweight.
It's okay for background music. It's not really intended for full-blown high fidelity audio. You'll need something more like Dante for that.
But if you have an application that requires okay background music, not high fidelity, then this is the system for you. So I'll open the table for questions. Yeah, sure. So we actually got one in chat just a moment ago that we can touch on first.
So the question is that we have four amplifiers, but two power supply. Please explain how that provides independent power to the amp. Yes. So the two power supplies are fed into the VX2000DS. So the VX2000DS outputs and distributes up to six output power channels, each capable of feeding up to, I believe, 600 watts per channel.
And from the VX2000DS, each module and chassis is fed independently from those six outputs. We'll actually discuss this in more detail on the, I plan to discuss it in more detail on the next webinar. There I will be talking about spec'ing and in-depth discussion on the power distribution system.
So if there's any follow-up to that or if there's any additional questions we'd like to get covered in this one, unless you guys want to tune back in next month, by all means as well, you can feel free to send them over in the chat or send them in the Q&A. We'll give you a couple of moments for that and then we'll move on to the giveaway that we do at the end of each of these. I'll take that as it was just a brilliant webinar. everyone's experts now with the bfs or introductory experts of the vf system we can carry on to the next slide then sorry did just go on when do we use the ipa1 yes so the ipa1 if you have an existing web system or a set based system it works really well on this system that that uh we can use the ipa1af as an endpoint and then use that as a bridge to connect onto the BX3000 to feed the PA system with audio.
and contact triggers if you need that. For the IPA1AF, you don't need one for each amplifier. You just need one feed into any VX3000 frame and you can program that to feed any output wherever in the system. So you can broadcast it much like how you would set up your feeds and your matrix with any DSP.
Typical architecture. An example that we've worked already is actually for a big LRT system in Edmonton. So we're expanding their LRT system to another phase, and we're dealing with several far-away locations from their— of course, when you're dealing with an LRT system, multiple stations far away from each other, interconnected with— fiber so each station has a frame with the necessary requisite power supply and speakers to feed to it and they're generally programmed with each other so that they're interconnected over I would always recommend dedicated vlan for this and they're they're connected over connected to each each frame is connected to each other over the tc to the network system and audio is broadcasted throughout all the stations and the service depots that are in the transit system. So that's one architecture. I'll just, if you're available, I would highly recommend the next webinar because that is where I'll discuss more detail on this.
on the nitty-gritty of the the vx3000 on in terms of uh technical details yes the vx3000 is all all of the uh units are rack mountable so uh i believe the frame is a 2u system and the accessories are 1u okay anyways any more questions feel free to send them in we're here until the very end either way so and also feel free to send us any support for any inquiries we'll be happy to answer your questions so yeah as i just wanted to end on here uh thank you everyone for attending today and this is you know if you have any to reach out for us like keith just said feel free to reach out we'd be happy to assist but just let any inquiries you have for any and all things toa and without further ado let us get on to the part everyone's still kicking around for a giveaway So out of everyone who's all you lovely attendants, I will spin the digital wheel here and we'll see who will be walking away or leaving a call with a new set of F1000 speakers. And if I could get a digital drumroll from everyone while this spins on my screen, why not? So the winner today, lucky winner, is Addy, or Ady. Apologies if I butcher your name, but...
Yeah, you won the speakers. I'll be reaching out to you shortly after this, and we'll see where we can be sending those to. So congratulations, and thank you, everyone else.
Apologies that we don't have more to give away, but there's always next month and the month after that and the month after that and so on. Thank you, everyone, for attending today, and that will conclude this webinar on the part one of our VX3000 series. Dr. Sal T-O-A