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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:01 pm

I found out that some of San Francisco's ATI's Do other languages for voice as well.
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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Mon Aug 12, 2013 2:17 pm

The STL-10 sound puts a TON of stress on the drivers and amps. SF has already replaced a lot of drivers in those sirens.

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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:54 am

I wonder if San Francisco will ever get better sirens than what they have now. They want the STL-10 tone and voice though.
holler wrote:The STL-10 sound puts a TON of stress on the drivers and amps. SF has already replaced a lot of drivers in those sirens.
I want to see a Whelen do this. I know the amps will be a bit mad and the drivers pushed to their limit. The Whelens in Denmark have that low pitched all-clear tone and they still work good... as far as I know. Whelens with a 405Hz alert and attack would make my day :thup:
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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Tue Aug 13, 2013 5:01 am

My solution: Hire Sentry to build custom STL clones and hang large PA speakers from them for the voice announcements.

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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:05 pm

That would probably cost 3 times the amount of an ATI...
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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:16 pm

San Francisco had a large system of STL10 sirens, but other than the tower Thunderbolt, I have never seen any evidence of such a system.

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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Fri Aug 16, 2013 2:26 am

Sirenguy02 wrote:That would probably cost 3 times the amount of an ATI...
Yes, but it'd actually *work* after five years! :twisted:

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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:12 pm

JasonC wrote:San Francisco had a large system of STL10 sirens, but other than the tower Thunderbolt, I have never seen any evidence of such a system.
I know of a few ATIs sitting on STL-10 intake cones, and one sitting on a Thunderbolt blower.

Here's the Union Square siren, which is mounted on an STL-10 intake cone.
http://goo.gl/maps/XyS82

And the one on Glen Park Elementary is sitting on a Tbolt blower (at least I think it is).
http://goo.gl/maps/qVEM1
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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:24 pm

Brendan W wrote:And the one on Glen Park Elementary is sitting on a Tbolt blower (at least I think it is).
http://goo.gl/maps/qVEM1
I just looked at this one on Bing Maps' Bird's Eye images, which are a little more clearer, and it looks like the object you thought was a blower is actually just a roof vent.

http://binged.it/1bCShgd
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Re: Pictures of San Francisco's sirens and a half-test video

Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:27 pm

carexpertandy wrote:
Brendan W wrote:And the one on Glen Park Elementary is sitting on a Tbolt blower (at least I think it is).
http://goo.gl/maps/qVEM1
I just looked at this one on Bing Maps' Bird's Eye images, which are a little more clearer, and it looks like the object you thought was a blower is actually just a roof vent.

http://binged.it/1bCShgd
From the street, it looks like a Blower frame with the cover on it. It has the U clamp that holds the pipe to the frame, etc. My eyes could be playing tricks on me, too.
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