2001 Moving with the Wind?

[Josh_S]

Ok, so there is a 2001-SRN that the City of Reedsburg moved up a couple blocks. It failed every test from December to March, now in April on the April 7th test it went off and is now facing west (was south). It was like that for a week, and then a couple days ago I passed it and it had moved south again! Now, a couple days earlier we had 25MPH winds and the winds were blowing south. I know that the 2001-SRN uses the same rotator mechanism as the Thunderbolt. Would it move due to high winds as to not break the inner rotator?

[CJ]

There are tension bands so that it can slip round without breaking teeth on the main drive gear.

[Jim Z]

yep. check out page 31 (of the PDF, not the document) of the Thunderbolt manual that EL1998P71 kindly posted here:

http://www.jeffclifton.com/eric/Tbolt-2.pdf

The "cross bolt with spring" is what sets the rotator gear to chopper tube tension. The pre-SRNB 2001 is identical to this.

[Travis]

This is a little off topic, but the Lubbock T-bolts are facing a different direction almost every day. Phantom sirens are kind of spooky in a way.

[Mantis]

The 2001 DC at my school does the same thing. I did a beautiful double-take the first time I saw it had changed direction.

[Tannre]

Somewhere on YouTube there is a video of the "Ghost Allertor" that spins around with the wind. It's possibly the same scenario.

[Mantis]

Somewhere on YouTube there is a video of the "Ghost Allertor" that spins around with the wind. It's possibly the same scenario.

lolz. I've gotta go see that.

*off to YouTube*

EDIT: Think I found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_UB3JLGCg4

[Tannre]

Aaah. Yes. That would be it.
Phantom, Ghost, same thing. Haha.

[CJ]

Somewhere on YouTube there is a video of the "Ghost Allertor" that spins around with the wind. It's possibly the same scenario.

lolz. I've gotta go see that.

*off to YouTube*

EDIT: Think I found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_UB3JLGCg4

I have a feeling that Allertor has some broken rotator gearbox teeth. I'm sure you are aware CrazySirenBoy is Adam Pollak here.

[500 AT fan]

I've seen a similar Allertor on a windy day. It didn't spin around at all.