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Interesting Banshee

Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:56 am

Here is a Siren from Hudson WI I think it is a X-cell /ASC Banshee/OM120 Image

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Re: Interesting Banshee

Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:56 pm

Archon wrote:Here is a Siren from Hudson WI I think it is a X-cell /ASC Banshee/OM120 Image
Wow, thats a weird looking Banshee! Was that a prototype model or something?

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Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:31 pm

Wasn't the X-Cell an electronic siren?

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Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:44 pm

That's a nice Banshee. If this Banshee is an OM type, I'm glad that ASC still has those twelve-to-nine ratio rotors! :wink: Seeing that this Banshee is yellow, I think that it could be a prototype or a short-lived model from ACA.
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Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:35 pm

I'm guessing that there would be a damper in that intake. Notice how the conduit branches off and goes into the intake. This is only a guess though.

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Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:21 pm

Looks like they tried to capitalize on whatever sound somes out of the intake and make a horn for it, or perhaps it was an attempt at a venturi to increase airflow.
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Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:35 pm

Note that you can see the Banshee standing on the three legs: we don't know as to whether they go all the way up to the rotor or are cut off with a plate on them. That way, if the siren has a stand plate underneath it, for whatever sake of mounting-practicality that might be, it has intake holes at the side. I am just guessing here, though, as I am not visually sure.
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Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:42 pm

I'm wondering if that piece of conduit is to keep the rest of the conduit from possibly damaging the siren's cowls if the wind gets high. It is a very strange setup. The bottom of the intake looks like it somehow enhances airflow, as said before.

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Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:02 am

Xcell was a Siren company after ACA and before ASC came into being.
Hartford WI has Xcell sirens and they are Machinical ones.

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