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Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:05 am**

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:17 am**

Very nice photographs! I wish to photograph some sirens too, but I lack a camera. That 2001 appears to be either a 2001-130 or an SRNB. But I'm not expert on 2001s yet...

Good Luck.

~Federal Signal fan

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:34 am**

The 130's look incredibly dorky-looking with the back casing being longer than the rotator case.

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:37 am**

hen7713 wrote:Can anyone identify what this is that I found on the 2001-DC pole? http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll11 ... G_1098.jpg

It appears to be some sort of fuse, but I'm not sure.

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:47 am**

Looks like to me an Hour meter cabinet, with solid lines across the contacts

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:35 am**

That's definitely a meter base with what appears to be either shielded copper (or perhaps bare copper) wires going across the poles, instead of a meter. The only real explanation behind them doing this, that I can think of, is that they don't require a meter on these siren installations since it's city/county-owned. Not sure if that's true or not, but it definitely seems like a plausible theory.

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:22 am**

Its a shunt inside a meter box. Since it's gov't owned, and doesn't need a meter for billing, the shunt provides a connection when there is no meter.

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:30 am**

I know of several siren systems where setups like this have been used. Many times it is done when a city has both a siren system and their own municipal power system. There are also places where the local power company will either bill the sirens a flat rate per month or some where the power company will let the sirens run for free. The man-hours it takes to have someone read the meter is not worth the amount of electricity used. It also makes for good publicity when the power company is known for providing free power to the city's warning sirens.

Many towns also cannot afford the equipment and poles necessary to put sirens up and the power companies have been a great help to them. The meter box is still there as it allows for a hard disconnect if service is ever done.

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:56 pm**

All of the sirens I have seen has power meters on them.
Nice pictures, hen! I like the roundback pictures. It looks to be in better shape than Shawnee County's roundback 2001s.

Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:45 pm**

Yeah, the round-back 2001 DC looks awesome. I'm not gonna lie, but the 2001-130 looks really cool, better than a 2001 SRN-B!

Great pictures, BTW!

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