Another Insteresting Federal Creation

[thewoog34]

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

Sentry's entire product line still uses a classic chopper design.

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.

The cone curves inwards to give the projector an exponential horn profile around the center cone. This increases efficiency tremendously.

[SirenMadness]

Sorry, in terms of classic, I'm referring to just Federal here. I'm pretty sure the Model 2 will stay around unchanged for a while.
You know, when I first saw the thread title I thought someone had dug up some crazy old-school patent or found an old pic of some weird prototype. Was I ever pleasantly surprised when I read that this is actually something new and upcoming!

[holler]

The 508 reminds me of that monstrous "Collosus" siren made in the 50's.

[Civil D Siren]

It does look like an ACA design, like a P-15 or something.

[Travis]

They probably just reverse engineered a Tempest series siren.

I preach this once more. There is sufficient evidence [noted by Clayt Werden] Federal obtains their rotors and stators from the exact same company that does ASC's.

[thewoog34]

Anyone else kinda disappointed that ANOTHER 8 port siren is being put onto the market? That makes the majority of the mechanical sirens being made today 8 port. 8 port doesn't sound bad at all, but it's nice to have some more variety. Oh well, it's better than having mostly 12 port sirens.

[holler]

Why would we be disappointed? 8 port sirens are great.

[jkvernon]

I'm surprised that Clayt hasn't commented. He usually has pretty good insight into these things.

[ver tum]

My guess is that this siren will have a deeper tone (I don't mean lower pitch), possibly deeper than the T-128's tone. Can't wait to hear one of these!

[thewoog34]

Why would we be disappointed? 8 port sirens are great.

I completely agree, but it's kinda boring now that most of the sirens being made will be 8 port. This new siren is most likely going to replace the 2001. It would have been cool if the 508 was a 7 port siren, but it was probably economically more feasible to use the Eclipse rotor.

EDIT: Are you guys seriously smiting me simply because you don't agree with my opinion?