I've always loved Whelen's sirens, but since I've been researching them on YouTube, I've found more and more failures of systems installed by this company, from speaker failures to straight-up battery explosions. Is the reason for the amount of these issues just because Whelen is an electronic-specific company or is there something relating to build quality?
For reference, here are some completely different failures of Whelen systems:
- Battery explosion, WPS-2810 (DJ2226)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-5r6_8ta9w
- Driver failure, Vortex-R4 (Cherry 1880)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKPXX37HbJA
- Driver failure (?), Vortex-R4 (Central Ohio Sirens)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BleYP57rjn8
- Tone Generator failure, WPS-2016 (WarningSirensofMichiana)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUW55SxBNA
- Driver failure (?), WPS-2805 ( WarningSirensofMichiana)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcQl3NPWl2I