Nice find with the drivers! Hopefully they're in working order. Sucks that plastic piece in the upper cell is cracked though.

Congrats on the acquisition! those 6 cell modulators are freaking massive. Hope you'll be able to get a few drivers & do a sound off!

Is the Maunalani Park thunderbolt dead then too? darn.

Good gust of wind probably knocked it loose, finback too. Not sure how rust affects these sirens, but it is possible the plate where the head attaches to the rotator has potential to fail as they age. i believe it is a steel plate that is powder coated, so definitely has the potential to rust &...

I found this via a Reddit post. The author says it’s a 1008, however doing a bit more digging, the cabinet appears to be some sort of fiberglass one, and looks nothing like a Whelen cabinet. I hate to be that person, but it resembles those odd Edwards Audalert things from Red Bank, NJ. https://www....

What an amazing discovery! Can't wait to see the progress on this siren and eventually it running!

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Tue Jan 31, 2023 3:45 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60QvPkjEI6A

Gotta be the weirdest thing I've seen all year

I've been working on a map of every known Sterling Siren to have existed for the past 5 or so months, and I have come across many weird things during that time. This, however, is the crown jewel of all oddities and atrocities... Meet Biscoe, North Carolina's ROTATING Model M. https://maps.app.goo.g...

Sounds more like a silent test, I've heard of places doing it in the early morning hours like that before. I guess it wasn't silent enough this time lol IIRC yes, the "silent test" for both Federal signal and ASC is a growl that the controller uses to check if the motor is drawing current...

Sounds more like a silent test, I've heard of places doing it in the early morning hours like that before. I guess it wasn't silent enough this time lol IIRC yes, the "silent test" for both Federal signal and ASC is a growl that the controller uses to check if the motor is drawing current...