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by ThatGuy2020
Thu Apr 17, 2025 3:40 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: SirenCon™ 2025 - May 31st, 2025
Replies: 20
Views: 37153

Re: SirenCon™ 2025 - May 31st, 2025

How will the 240VAC access points for small sirens look? Standard female outlet? Two wires? I'd like to prepare my FE Model 2 for it
by ThatGuy2020
Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:16 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: The death of the ACA Howler, And a call for action
Replies: 14
Views: 15221

Re: The death of the ACA Howler, And a call for action

Honestly to my perspective a 130 Decibel 2001 siren is way too overkill for such a town. If there is already a 2001 there, despite being a fairly old model by now that covers the entire town, why not go with a smaller, omnidirectional siren like a T-121 or an Eclipse 8? That would be more cost effi...
by ThatGuy2020
Sat Apr 12, 2025 3:28 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: The death of the ACA Howler, And a call for action
Replies: 14
Views: 15221

Re: The death of the ACA Howler, And a call for action

I'm not sure where anyone here got the idea that any model of 2001 is unreliable. I've only seen a handful of videos of 2001s experiencing any major issues, 99% of the thousands of 2001s across the country work perfectly fine and without issue. Even units that are over 35 years old now are still ki...
by ThatGuy2020
Fri Apr 11, 2025 4:56 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: The death of the ACA Howler, And a call for action
Replies: 14
Views: 15221

Re: The death of the ACA Howler, And a call for action

What reasons are there for saving it, pray tell, besides your own personal vanity? Let's say they were to procure a 2001-130. The 2001-130 is a better siren in every way than the Howler. Less complex, more reliable rotation system, significantly louder, more modern controls, and time tested reliabi...
by ThatGuy2020
Fri Apr 11, 2025 1:12 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: The death of the ACA Howler, And a call for action
Replies: 14
Views: 15221

The death of the ACA Howler, And a call for action

I just went to the Cologne Howler for the SWAW test, and unfortunately, it is dead. It did not activate at the 1:45, from what a firefighter told us, and it didn’t work at 6:45 when I was there. When my dad messaged them about the siren two years ago and they said once it dies, it’s done. But the fi...
by ThatGuy2020
Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:45 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Motorizing a hand crank siren.
Replies: 7
Views: 9690

Re: Motorizing a hand crank siren.

I am trying to do the opposite. Put a Model L chopper on a Model G crank.
Call me a maniac, I'm aware of that
by ThatGuy2020
Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:33 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: SirenCon™ 2025 - May 31st, 2025
Replies: 20
Views: 37153

Re: SirenCon™ 2025 - May 31st, 2025

It is that time of year again! SirenCon is less than 4 months away! I cannot believe we are on our 6th year and it continues to grow! Officially the event will take place on Saturday, May 31st at Camp Tesomas in Rhinelander, WI. What’s changing? This year we have a new registration system to handle...
by ThatGuy2020
Tue Mar 04, 2025 3:34 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Vintage siren photos thread
Replies: 369
Views: 625387

Re: Vintage siren photos thread

SomeDudeSD wrote:
Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:33 am
Model 5/7 on the water tower in Mora, Minnesota, circa June 1972. Siren and water tower are both gone.
That photo is amazingly good quality for 1972
by ThatGuy2020
Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:51 pm
Forum: Mystery Sirens
Topic: Heath laboratories siren model F 7
Replies: 22
Views: 39344

Re: Heath laboratories siren model F 7

A Heath siren is an incredible find!

You can add images by clicking "Img" in the full message editor, and that is if you have a link, but if it is a file on your Pc, you click "Attachments" then click "Add files"
by ThatGuy2020
Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:41 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: PSA
Replies: 14
Views: 9382

Re: PSA

I agree. I am on the very young side of the community (14), and I own multiple sirens, including a Model 2. This is a powerful siren, yet I have never used it for a full blast in my city; I have only used it for small growls. The ONLY times I do full blasts with ANY siren, it's only usually my Model...

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