The Siren Board

Excellent discovery. This brings back a lot of memories. I can remember when the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station had these. There was a whole network of Hurricanes all over Ottawa County, Ohio.

holler wrote:

Archon wrote:

3t22 wrote:I think I know what I'm going to do with my other week of vacation this year. Glad to hear this beast is still active.

Does this mean you will be picking up the penetrator

Huh? What's going on Joe.

I bought a single toned single phased P-15 plus it's controls from him on eBay almost 2 years ago. He's been more than patient on me coming to pick it up, which I really appreciate (I owe you one big time Joe). My storage bin is starting to look too empty with the stuff I got rid of when I drug my other sirens to my place . Of course I'll be picking up the P-15.

Nice Find! If I could drive, I'd get some gas, money, load up my iPod and head on out there!

Damn! I didn't know Wisconsin had a single Hurricane siren. Very Cool!

Siren1000T wrote:Damn! I didn't know Wisconsin had a single Hurricane siren. Very Cool!

I'm sure there have been many others, seeing as that's where they originated from.

Over my winter break, I drove out to Naperville a couple times to help open up a new Walgreens there. I drove through Darien a couple times and was hoping to see their Hurricanes, but I wasn't so lucky. Then again, I didn't look that hard

Great find though! Can't wait to hear a video of it...btw it looks pretty darn big!

2t22boy wrote:If I had the money, and time I would take a little road trip up there to see that baby in action. I imagine it sounds spooky with P-50s and 10s mixing with it, that is if there are others sirens near it.

I don't get up that way too often but I know there's an Allertor about a mile east of there, a P-50 2 miles south, a T-128 2.5 miles south, and a P-50 about 3.5 miles to the southeast. There are probably other sirens in the area, I'm just not sure where they are.

side track- why does the chopper motor on the Hurricane spin up so quickly?

Gil wrote:

Siren1000T wrote:Damn! I didn't know Wisconsin had a single Hurricane siren. Very Cool!

I'm sure there have been many others, seeing as that's where they originated from.

Yep, there was a green Hurricane in Greendale, WI (a suburb of Milwaukee, was part of the same system as this one), now replaced by a T-128.

Jim Z wrote:side track- why does the chopper motor on the Hurricane spin up so quickly?

It's only a one-horsepower motor, and it is a single-phase motor. However, in shop class, we have some eight-horsepower motors that wind up just as fast!