Twin Cities Sirens

[murrfarms]

The 2001 siren itself is perfectly fine, but their controllers are not the best. Time to drag out the good 'ol RCM cabinet and AR timer!

That's exactly what I like about Macon's older 2001s, they're still hooked up to AR timers/siratrol radios, and the power is fed directly into the inverter from the AR, which runs up to the siren. The 2001s that are set up like that one have to be the simplest control setups I've ever seen. None of the ones with that setup have failed yet, but they've had quite a few of the newer DCs and SRNs fail, due to controller issues. Sounds like it's time for a new design in the control department of Federal's sirens.

[Justin]

Or use different controllers completely.

Yes, siren's do fail and yes, some more than others but one needs to consider all of the variables before coming to the conclusion that X siren is better than Y siren for whatever reason.

It could be down to the two companies installing/maintaining the system, are they doing the right work when needed and is the workmanship of good quality? Just because a system fails doesn't automatically mean that the product is bad. Could have been dozens of external factors that contributed to failure.

Even ATI has it's purpose, albeit a very minuscule one.

[tinyshoes]

we've had a pretty storm-free summer in the metro this summer, so I haven't heard sirens as much as I've been seeing them.

Just discovered this old Thunderbolt in the Uptown neighborhood in Minneapolis--it's a couple blocks east of the Uptown Rainbow grocery store.

[Thunderboltlover]

Just wanted to shed some light on the sirens mentioned on the first page of this thread.

Brooklyn Center has a Thunderbeam RSH-10 at I-694 and Brooklyn Boulevard, and a Federal Signal Thunderbolt at I-694 and Humboldt Ave.

If you want to see many of Minneapolis's t-bolts, go here:

This guy has videos of most of them

http://www.youtube.com/user/JPa311979[url][url/]

[coppercarl]

Perhaps I'm going to stray off the reservation for a second, but seriously. How many people actually take shelter when the sirens sounds vs the people that run outside to see whats going on or to listen to the sirens then decide what they are going to do? Don't get me wrong sirens are great and every town should have them. But it has been my observation when the sirens go off you can count on most of the neighborhood standing in the front yards waiting to see the tornado or funnel cloud and they don't run to the basement till the trees start falling over or lightning hits close by. It seems rather than encourage people to shelter sirens invite people to run outside and see what is going on.

I admit I'M guilty of this also. The last time the sirens sounded in our area I was on my front porch as with most of the neighborhood either out on the porches or out in the street looking at the sky shrugging shoulders looking at at one another with the what the heck look. I'd shudder to think what would happen if the sirens ever sounded for a haz-mat incident. Most everyone in my town would run outside and get overcome by fumes.

Haha. I am the same way but in Evansville, or at least in my area, nobody runs outside to hear anything. The only reason I do it is so I can hear the sirens and/or get a good recording of them.