The Siren Board

Let me introduce myself. I'm known as BigMike. I'm a ship horn collector that also collects some locomotive horns. I have just reasently jumped into collecting air raid or civil defense sirens. This is my first serious siren (I have another siren but it is the smaller Japanese version of the Gents).

This came from Simco City, Toronto, Canada. It is a Federal Model 7 (at least I think its a model 7, the tag is worn out but has a 7 stampped on it along with the voltage and phase). It is a dual tone siren. I currently do not have a way to power this thing so I'm just going to post some photos for righ now. Can anyone suggest a good reasonably priced portable generator that could power this up, so that I could take the siren with me on Horn and Whistle meets?

For those that are interested, You can check out my horn videos at: www.youtube.com/BIGMIKESOCAL

Here's the link to the pictures of my siren:
http://www.hornwhistleboard.com/viewtop ... 906&hilit=

Thanks,
BigMike

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Nice 7T. Ignore what that person was saying about it might be 50hz because it's 240v, you will rarely find anything more than a 2hp Federal Model 2 on 120v. Otherwise they will be 208-240v/480v three-phase.

Looks really good, did you clean it all up? looks like it to me.

Also watch out if you want to run it, that booger is gonna really drink current, especially being a Model 7T. (the T means dual-tone, and doesn't make one bit of difference to the motor.)

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I couldn't get the link to work to horn and whistle board, but in a nutshell if it's a single phase model you can run it off a 60 amp breaker without any problems. Also a lot of the older three phase sevens and fives were 208-230 only.

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Link worked fine for me. Interesting to hear that, though. It's a pretty nice looking 7T.
i'll paste the images here (links)

http://www.hornwhistleboard.com/downloa ... 7&t=1&f=21

http://www.hornwhistleboard.com/downloa ... 6&t=1&f=21

http://www.hornwhistleboard.com/downloa ... 5&t=1&f=21

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I have cleaned it up, replaced bearings and brushes. Painted the motor and surrounding metal gun metal gray. I will be stripping and painting the housing when I get the time. Any one suggest a fair priced portable generator that I could power this with?

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Sorry, no idea about gennies over there, im in the UK. Nice job doing a restoration, though.

BIGMIKE SOCAL wrote:Thanks for the comments. Yes, I have cleaned it up, replaced bearings and brushes. Painted the motor and surrounding metal gun metal gray. I will be stripping and painting the housing when I get the time. Any one suggest a fair priced portable generator that I could power this with?

A 7 kw MIGHT start it if you baby it. It's going to take a good sized portable generator to power that. You can get it spun up with a drill first and then throw the power to it, taking most of the startup pain out of it.

Model 5 and 7 sirens are really cool, with their unique blare.

Anyways, welcome to the Siren Board, and ship/train horns are really interesting too, I'm pretty sure I will start collection of them at some point!

Mike, did you ever get in touch with Charles (kz250rider)?

Greetings! I'm also Mike, but I'm in San Jose.

Someone in Florida ran a Model 7T from their house 240v circuit. But, expect some big current draw.

I may have to stop by the next time I'm in the area.