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Federal Signal VG video
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:40 pm
by cjf1616
A while ago I got my first siren. It was used on a boat for the Coast Guard Aux. It is old, and looks to be in good conditon. The motor is made by the Leece-Neville Company, but it is not working which of course means the siren is not operating. It runs on 12 VDC and perhaps there is the model number on the plate which is 2L10E5, but I have no idea what company made this siren and I would like to find out more about the siren. I have some pictures that I took of it. I would appreciate any input that you may have.
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=4/10608252632.jpg&s=x402
Front View of Siren
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=4/10608194470.jpg&s=x402
Side View of Siren
(BTW. Im not a new user. I was sd-10god on the last board.)
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 12:38 am
by AllSafe
This is a Federal Signal vehicle siren, I believe a model E or EG. 2L10E5 is the serial number. I wonder why they used it on a boat because it's not made for marine use.
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:27 pm
by KnightFox
I got my money on it being a Police Siren from say like the 50's to the 60's (back when they had the huge "Gumballs" on top of Mercurys, etc)
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:06 pm
by Adam Smith
It's a Federal model VG. It was marketed primarily to volunteer firemen, for their personal vehicles.
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 8:05 pm
by cjf1616
Thanks for the info. Im going to see what I can do to try to get it up and running again.
Video of the VG
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:54 pm
by cjf1616
Here is a video I made of the VG. The motor wasnt blown after all but it needed to be wired differently than I had it wired. So anyway heres the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfLvC1r6Ado
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:01 am
by Trey
Nice to see you got it working. It sounds like the small siren I have which has a plastic rotor. Speaking of vehicle sirens, what Federal vehicle siren has a long coastdown? We have one of these on our firetrucks and I can't figure it out. It's no Q.
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:59 am
by Nelso90
The only other one I can think of is the Model-77/78, and I'm pretty sure both of those are dual tone.
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:15 am
by Siren Man
anyone have a recording of those dual tone sirens?
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:50 am
by Jim_Ferer
Thunderbolt wrote:Nice to see you got it working. It sounds like the small siren I have which has a plastic rotor. Speaking of vehicle sirens, what Federal vehicle siren has a long coastdown? We have one of these on our firetrucks and I can't figure it out. It's no Q.
Another "coaster" siren in the Federal line was the model C. I believe it was the top of the line before the Q appeared.
This is from John Dorgan's "Sirenman" website, which is well worth visiting at
http://www.sirenman.com/
