Tue Dec 31, 2013 4:22 pm
Full-Size Air Raid Sirens can be very expensive, not to mention large, bulky, and heavy. They often don't go for sale for anything less than $1,000 nowadays. There are a lot of different types and variants of sirens.
Smaller sirens will pop up on Ebay frequently. Search Ebay for "Federal Siren" and your results will be almost completely Federal products. Smaller sirens can range from $2,000 for a new Federal Q (common firetruck siren), to $9.99 for a siren that is brand new, but made in China and won't do steady for very long until it burns up. These Chinese sirens are small and Red, or maybe gray. Don't buy them.
Ebay, Craigslist, and the For Sale section of the forum are places to look for sirens that may be for sale. As for supplies, knowing how to wire a plug to two wires correctly may help, and for larger sirens (like the Federal Model 5, for example) will probably need a Single Phase to Three Phase converter.
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