San Onofre Toshiba Omnidirectional

[spotandtiggerbug]

Does anyone know what they sound like? I know Whelen Omnis replaced them... Ive seen the Whelens. Ive also seen Thunderbolt-looking things... Does anyone know what those are?

[SirenMadness]

There have been a couple of vids on YT of Japanese sirens that were presumed to be the Toshibas, though nobody's sure.

[Matt]

This is a toshiba with a damper. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaoRL9pP ... re=related

[spotandtiggerbug]

Thanks for showing me, never knew they had sirens like that... Scary

[Daniel]

Those sirens in Japan are not the same as the ones in California. Those were made by an engineer in California, not Toshiba, and looked like a giant version of an Eclipse. They were closer to German HLS sirens and used compressed air. The sirens in this Japanese video look like standard vertical motor sirens with a damper on top.

[spotandtiggerbug]

Those sirens in Japan are not the same as the ones in California. Those were made by an engineer in California, not Toshiba, and looked like a giant version of an Eclipse. They were closer to German HLS sirens and used compressed air. The sirens in this Japanese video look like standard vertical motor sirens with a damper on top.

Oh, ok thanks.

[TboltTX1]

Those sirens in Japan are not the same as the ones in California. Those were made by an engineer in California, not Toshiba, and looked like a giant version of an Eclipse. They were closer to German HLS sirens and used compressed air. The sirens in this Japanese video look like standard vertical motor sirens with a damper on top.

I'm wondering how they even got the name toshiba? It's a shame no one has any recordings or videos of them activating.

[weasel2htm]

I'm wondering how they even got the name toshiba? It's a shame no one has any recordings or videos of them activating.

If I understand right, the Toshiba siren was built by the same Toshiba that makes electronics.

[kx250rider]

I'm wondering how they even got the name toshiba? It's a shame no one has any recordings or videos of them activating.

If I understand right, the Toshiba siren was built by the same Toshiba that makes electronics.

In a way... They started out in the 1930s as Shibura Brothers Radio Assembly Group of Tokyo, and then Tokyo-Shibura Electrical, and eventually came the household name Toshiba.

They've gotten into many kinds of manufacturing, and are now basically a conglomerate, and probably do very little of their own manufacturing anymore; at least not in Japan.

Charles

[holler]

For a while Sentry was using Toshiba motors in their sirens. The 10V2T in Prairie Du Sac, WI has a Toshiba motor.