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EOWS 816 or 812?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 8:15 pm
by Traxstar1825
I see lots of people calling the siren either the 816 or the 812 and I was wondering which one it is. I heard something about the bottom 2 speakers have 2 drivers and the rest have 1 and it's called the 812 and I've also heard all of them having 2 drivers and it's called the 816. Does anyone know about this?
Re: EOWS 816 or 812?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:27 pm
by uncommonsense
812 is right. The SiraTone cabinet only ever supported a max of 1200 watts of audio output.
Further proof:
http://www.jmarcoz.com/sirens/sc19.pdf
That page makes it clear the EOWS-115 and 812 use the came cabinet (whereas it indicates the 408 using one that only has 4 amps). Thus, the 812 designation is correct.
Re: EOWS 816 or 812?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:33 am
by Tyler
The Wiki page has a lot of information about EOWS.
https://wiki.airraidsirens.net/EOWS_Series
Picture taken by Jonathan Callahan.
Re: EOWS 816 or 812?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:27 am
by Traxstar1825
Wow that's strange but cool. What was even the purpose of making the 812?
Re: EOWS 816 or 812?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:40 am
by Tyler
Traxstar1825 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:27 am
Wow that's strange but cool. What was even the purpose of making the 812?
I believe Federal just wanted to take the 408 and stack 2 of them to make a big one to save them the time of designing a smaller unit and/or reworking the SiraTone controller to support 1600W for an 816 model. It clearly didn't do well and the 612 clobbered it in sales and performance from what I can tell. I believe the 408 even sold more than the 812 did.