In early June while in Medina County at a 508, I met my friend and bought an ACA Control Cabinet from him.
This is a single phase ACA Allertor cabinet that came from Knox Township, OH, and before that was part of the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station’s old ACA siren system. As you may know, their system of old Allertors were saved from the scrap heap after Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station scrapped their old system. Knox acquired 5 Allertor 125 sirens as well as other miscellaneous parts for Allertors, including this Control Cabinet. This particular cabinet was never installed on Knox Township’s system, as their Allertors were a variety of single phase and 3 phase units.
Knox Township more or less “converted” their single phase Allertors to three phase by purchasing new 10 HP three phase motors for them as well as new three phase motor starters. The control cabinets they installed were equipped with third-Party radios linking to the Homeworth and North Georgetown Fire Company’s frequencies for activation, and the ones which were single phase were gutted and had the new components installed.
Knox Township dedicated their tornado siren system on July 5, 2013.
In October 2018, a post was made on Facebook by C & K Early Warning Systems, our regional dealer for Sentry Siren, Inc. announcing Knox Township’s new sirens. These new sirens were installed on March 23, 2019, according to the Chairman of Board of Trustees. The pictured units were of a 3V8-H-B, which was installed on private property at Brunner Farm, and of a white and green 14V siren (two of them have this unique color scheme, which is the color scheme of the local West Branch school district, according to the Trustee). They replaced all 5 Allertor locations (the 5th Allertor at Brunner Farm was only up for about a year before it was destroyed during a storm and only the pole remained until the new siren was installed. All new sirens are not yet online as they are waiting for electric service to be installed at all five locations.
Anyways, this cabinet went unused and sat in the township’s service garage for years and was placed in the junk pile near a dumpster once the Allertors were scrapped. My friend, passing through the area, was curious and checked to see if they were still there. The sirens had already been scrapped but this cabinet was still there sitting near the dumpster to be scrapped. My friend picked it up, took it home, and cleaned it out, and then gave it to me. The ACA logo was refurbed because his mom runs a graphic design business and was able to get a new decal printed and affixed onto the cabinet.
I took everything but the capacitors because they are hazardous and since I will be moving to a new home soon on the other side of Ohio (my father recently got a new job, necessitating the move) and since I plan on displaying this cabinet anyways and have no actual use for it I decided not to have the capacitors. The mounts for them were bent anyways. This siren was in storage in the Knox Township service garage for spare parts and sat there for the time the sirens were installed.
This was ex-Beaver Valley Siren 511 according to the cabinet, and that siren site is now an Equinox.
I’d attach photos, but it appears that unfortunately, I cannot use the attachment feature and have it actually work anymore...