Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:56 pm
In fairness to ATI (which I can't believe I'm saying), from what I hear, the problem with Battle Creek's system last year was something in the control network, not the sirens themselves; 50% of *all* of the city's sirens failed in their first test after the winter, not just the ATIs. (The rest of the city's network includes at least three Thunderbolts, two EOWS-612s, a Thunderbeam, a bunch of SD-10s, and several other older Federal omnis in suburbs that linked into the BC system.)
My guess is that last year's brutal winter screwed up a bunch of controllers citywide...