Another Insteresting Federal Creation

[SirenMadness]

If Federal already spent the money on engineering and tooling for the new castings, then they might as well do away with the old. I personally think it looks great!

Now, just compare the rotor of the 508 to that of mixerbd699's T-128. They both have the curved vanes and appear to stick out a bit at the front. Is it possible that ASC let Federal use their rotor?? That would be interesting considering how the very first batch of B&N Mobil Directos used rotors from Federal.

[holler]

I don't think they reverse engineered a tempest siren, it actually looks like a bigger rotor/stator.

[r4tbolts]

I see two major issues with the inner cone design. Without a screen the shape of the inner cone will make one heck of a bird nesting area and secondly in snow country if pointed the wrong direction will catch and retain a lot of snow. To me it would seem more practical to have the inner cone flared outward to drain water and moisture away and not be a retention pool.

At a minimum there should be a weep hole in the bottom of the inner cone to keep water/moisture from pooling.

[orestis]

How strange that the external fiberglass surface isn't coated... Maybe there is a top cone or something similar missing there?

[Siren_Dude]

Looks pretty cool!

[kdksiren]

We were wondering about water gettting in and freezing or snow too. Wasn't this a concern with the Allertor? Also, if you look around the outer horn, it looks like holes that may be there to connect a screen to keep varmits out.

[Trey]

That is one fugly siren. I call it an American Signal ripoff. But at least Federal is still in the siren biz and still trying to come up with new products/trying to compete in the industry. I'm gonna say the 2001s days are numbered as well. Wait...that technically will make 2001s collectible who will get one first??

[md5]

I see two major issues with the inner cone design. Without a screen the shape of the inner cone will make one heck of a bird nesting area and secondly in snow country if pointed the wrong direction will catch and retain a lot of snow. To me it would seem more practical to have the inner cone flared outward to drain water and moisture away and not be a retention pool.

At a minimum there should be a weep hole in the bottom of the inner cone to keep water/moisture from pooling.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Without any meshing, that entire apparatus will be mighty tempting for any little critter to call it home.

[SirenMadness]

If the 2001 goes, that means the Model 2 will be the only siren to use a classic chopper design!

[uncommonsense]

If the 2001 goes, that means the Model 2 will be the only siren to use a classic chopper design!

What about Sentry's product line?