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Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

Sat Dec 30, 2017 7:29 pm

Just curious as to if anyone here has made their own warning siren. I've made one out of an iBlaster orb. it's only temporary, as I am hoping to get a few loudspeakers outside my house to replace the current indoor one. See The channel in my signature to see the video of it doing a time & temp announcement
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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

Sat Dec 30, 2017 9:48 pm

Here's a homemade siren in Colerain Township, Ohio outside of Cincinnati that was built in the 1980s by some guys who ran a machine shop which it sat on top of. Those people sold the building to our local trash/recycling company in 2007, and they sold the building to someone else in 2009. Around 2015 or so, everything was removed.

This siren has two separate heads for two tones. The higher toned head is the horn shown through most of the video, while the lower toned head is the box shown towards the end of the video. This was in Hamilton County's system, but unknown if it was disconnected or inactive at all before it was removed.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPEA8W7_5so
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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:12 pm

carexpertandy wrote:
Sat Dec 30, 2017 9:48 pm
Here's a homemade siren in Colerain Township, Ohio outside of Cincinnati that was built in the 1980s by some guys who ran a machine shop which it sat on top of. Those people sold the building to our local trash/recycling company in 2007, and they sold the building to someone else in 2009. Around 2015 or so, everything was removed.

This siren has two separate heads for two tones. The higher toned head is the horn shown through most of the video, while the lower toned head is the box shown towards the end of the video. This was in Hamilton County's system, but unknown if it was disconnected or inactive at all before it was removed.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPEA8W7_5so

Hamilton County sure has some odd sirens, doesn't it?
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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:32 pm

The Model 120 sirens were not homemade but were custom engineered by a former employee at the SONGS plant here in southern California and were installed in 1982. They were all replaced in February 2006 with Whelen 2810s.
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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

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Duderocks5539 wrote:
Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:32 pm
The Model 120 sirens that were at the SONGS plant here in southern California were hand built in the late 80s.
Never seen one. Thanks for the info!
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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:05 am

I do have a mini fedelcode model 5 (shroud only) built out of paper and has a discolored printed fedelcode logo on it. i usually prop up my phone under it and play the video. and a model 2 to

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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

Mon Jan 15, 2018 5:02 pm

evilbolt98 wrote:
Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:05 am
I do have a mini fedelcode model 5 (shroud only) built out of paper and has a discolored printed fedelcode logo on it. i usually prop up my phone under it and play the video. and a model 2 to
Copycat! im the one who has those and how did you find that out?!
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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:12 pm

Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:05 pm
I do have a mini fedelcode model 5 (shroud only) built out of paper and has a discolored printed fedelcode logo on it. i usually prop up my phone under it and play the video. and a model 2 to
Copycat! im the one who has those and how did you find that out?!
it's a cool idea, whoever's it is. I recently updated mine, I'll post a video on my WhelenSirenFan Channel ([youtube]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZmsPy ... Cshjxroueg[/youtube]
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Re: Has anyone out there made a homeade tornado siren?

Tue Jan 16, 2018 4:25 am

Check out the Youtube channel called MrScientificSasuke. https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSciencetificsasuke
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