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Another sick EOWS612
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:54 pm
by ver tum
This one was recently posted to Youtube. It's not as loud as it should be, and it sounds terrible. That popping you hear is not from the recorder, but it's from the siren. Listen as the siren just fades out completely, then abruptly comes back on for the winddown. The person who made the video thinks the siren may have a bad driver.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mMChz-0juM0
You can also hear a Whelen in the video.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:48 pm
by uncommonsense
It would seem more likely that something was wrong with the batteries. That would explain the siren's inability to produce sound (with any sort of sound pressure or output consistency) and the super-slow rotation.
But, that's just a theory.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:14 pm
by ver tum
uncommonsense wrote:It would seem more likely that something was wrong with the batteries. That would explain the siren's inability to produce sound (with any sort of sound pressure or output consistency) and the super-slow rotation.
But, that's just a theory.
I wonder why it came back on during the winddown. If it was the batteries, it probably wouldn't have done that. It could have been a short in the speakers, or something like that. This siren is very sick though. There was another sick EOWS612 posted here not too long ago, but it wasn't the same siren.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:52 pm
by AllSafe
I would think to check the slip rings.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:42 pm
by ver tum
AllSafe wrote:I would think to check the slip rings.
It's an electronic siren.
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:42 am
by SirenMadness
There are slip rings in the siren for rotation of the head, and the drivers. Since an EOWS model rotates, it needs slip-rings to provide power to everything in the head.
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:27 pm
by ver tum
SirenMadness wrote:There are slip rings in the siren for rotation of the head, and the drivers. Since an EOWS model rotates, it needs slip-rings to provide power to everything in the head.
Oh, sorry about that. It may very well be the slip rings then. Do the EOWS models rotate in a full circle, or do they oscelate like some of the Whelens?
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:16 pm
by Justin
Fully rotate, as per the slip-rings.
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:20 pm
by ver tum
Justin wrote:Fully rotate, as per the slip-rings.
Thanks!
BTW, does anyone know which model Whelen that is in the background?
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:37 pm
by sirenfreek
ya those are my vids of the 612 hope ya liked em! more to come in the future, being that they are slowly replacing them with 2001's
