Sirens in Cincinnati?

[kswx29]

I remeber someone had a video of those pictures with "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk on youtube...it was since removed.

[Elliott]

BTW, nice picture of Karl in your avatar, haha.

Yeah, just sux that I had to reduce it so much to fit that it lost some color. I used the stretch/skew function on MS Paint to shrink it ubder 8 Kb.........Emmmm.

[Mister_Penetrator]

According to my list of Cincinnati siren locations they have the following:
Thunderbolt
2001
T-128
SD-10
STL-10
ACA 125
P-15
P-127
P-10
Some sort of EOWS
and a Sentry 3v8

What is the ACA 125? Is that the model number for the Hurricane?

[Thunderbolt 612]

No. The ACA 125 referred to the decibel output of the Allertor, since the
Hurricane's sound output is 130dB.

[Hacksaw]

There were some nice online articles from the Cincy Newspaper after a number of sirens failed when a tornado hit in the 90's. I wish I knew if those are still online. Some of the reasons for failures were real serious, like motor burned out, or hit by lightning.

[CinWx]

Eight sirens failed during the April 1999 tornado. One was struck by lightning about an hour before the tornado (very close to the path of the tornado). The other failures were from mechanical problems and power outages. I think several of those have been replaced.

[Hacksaw]

Here's the article I saw, without the pictures:
http://www.cincypost.com/news/siren041499.html

[EOWS 612]

Anybody know what type of EOWS that is? I think it might be a 1212.

[coyoteunknown]

No. The ACA 125 referred to the decibel output of the Allertor, since the
Hurricane's sound output is 130dB.

I'm confused, the manual states the Allertor is a 126dB siren. So why name it 125 when it outputs 126dB?

[jkvernon]

I also had a copy of the Hamilton County system and the EOWS on the list is a Federal EOWS*115. It's basically a 1212 with rectangular speakers.