How long are your city's siren tests?

[loukycheckinin]

Not as long as Georgetown, Kentucky's!

http://youtu.be/BgiiozcxO7g?hd=1

[Brendan W]

This T-bolt sounds horrible. I wonder if it will be replaced.


the local areas test their sirens for 30 seconds.

[md5]

...and this thing was going off for about nine minutes non-stop?

[loukycheckinin]

Yeah! 9 minutes! No wonder it sounds so bad! They run the hell out of it every time they use it! I couldn't tell if other sirens shut off before this, but I was thinking my battery only had 20 minutes of power left, and I really wanted to get the wind down! I was pretty sure some maintenance employees were going to come out and shut it off manually, but she finally wound down.

[ver tum]

This T-bolt sounds horrible. I wonder if it will be replaced.

Yeah it sounds like the ring brushes are toast. This thing would probably be really high pitched if it weren't for that.

[murrfarms]

Yeah it sounds like the ring brushes are toast. This thing would probably be really high pitched if it weren't for that.

I doubt it's the carbon brushes as much as it's the actual rings themselves being misshapen from getting really damn hot. I'd imagine those things probably resemble the shape of a roller coaster track, and the brushes are only able to make contact on that one certain area of the rings where they are high enough to do so. I have a set of collector rings out of one that are slightly warped from seemingly regular use over a long period of time, so I can only imagine what the ones in this one are like.

[Elektror S3b]

Every Saturday 15seconds at Noon, once in a year, all signals are tested.

[Daniel]

As a kid, the fire horns were tested for one second daily at noon, and three ten-second blasts each Wednesday at six. Today they are not used at all. Here in Umatilla County, Oregon, the Whelen siren system was tested every last Wednesday with a bilingual voice announcement and a Westminster tone, but in November, all the sirens were removed and sent to the coast.

[carexpertandy]

In Hamilton County, first, a growl, then wait between 1-3 minutes until you hear 1 minute of alert, then wait 1 minute until you hear 1 minute of attack.

[coppercarl]

Vanderburgh County IN - Every Friday at Noon
About 15 seconds of Alert, then a 30 or so second wind down, then two cycles of attack.

Henderson County KY - Every Friday at Noon
30 seconds to a minute of Alert, however, I am starting to think that they pick two or three sirens each week to run three minutes of alert.

Posey County IN - Every Wednesday at 1:00
In the city of Mt.Vernon, the mechanical sirens do 3 minutes of attack, while the Whelen on the north side and the Whelens in the industrial area sound 3 minutes of alert.

Gibson County IN - Every Friday at Noon
3 minutes of alert

Warrick County IN - Every Saturday at 1:00
30-45 seconds of alert

Daviess County KY - Every Friday at noon
45 seconds to a minute of attack/wail

Union County KY - Every day at Noon (Excluding Sundays, Holidays, and the day before a Holiday)
5-10 seconds of alert, and one siren does hi/low
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On the note of the video, I was looking at the description. There is an RSH-10 near the center to Georgetown -----> http://g.co/maps/hde77

And I also know of some 2001's in some smaller towns in the county.

*EDIT*
Here is a map I made, but never perused. -----> http://g.co/maps/nfrmx