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San Onofre Toshiba Omnidirectional
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:21 am
by spotandtiggerbug
Does anyone know what they sound like? I know Whelen Omnis replaced them... Ive seen the Whelens. Ive also seen Thunderbolt-looking things... Does anyone know what those are?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:23 am
by SirenMadness
There have been a couple of vids on YT of Japanese sirens that were presumed to be the Toshibas, though nobody's sure.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:28 am
by Matt
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:04 am
by spotandtiggerbug
Thanks for showing me, never knew they had sirens like that... Scary
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:48 am
by Daniel
Those sirens in Japan are not the same as the ones in California. Those were made by an engineer in California, not Toshiba, and looked like a giant version of an Eclipse. They were closer to German HLS sirens and used compressed air. The sirens in this Japanese video look like standard vertical motor sirens with a damper on top.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:20 am
by spotandtiggerbug
Daniel wrote:Those sirens in Japan are not the same as the ones in California. Those were made by an engineer in California, not Toshiba, and looked like a giant version of an Eclipse. They were closer to German HLS sirens and used compressed air. The sirens in this Japanese video look like standard vertical motor sirens with a damper on top.
Oh, ok thanks.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:23 pm
by TboltTX1
Daniel wrote:Those sirens in Japan are not the same as the ones in California. Those were made by an engineer in California, not Toshiba, and looked like a giant version of an Eclipse. They were closer to German HLS sirens and used compressed air. The sirens in this Japanese video look like standard vertical motor sirens with a damper on top.
I'm wondering how they even got the name toshiba? It's a shame no one has any recordings or videos of them activating.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:48 pm
by weasel2htm
TboltTX1 wrote:
I'm wondering how they even got the name toshiba? It's a shame no one has any recordings or videos of them activating.
If I understand right, the Toshiba siren was built by the same Toshiba that makes electronics.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:40 pm
by kx250rider
weasel2htm wrote:TboltTX1 wrote:
I'm wondering how they even got the name toshiba? It's a shame no one has any recordings or videos of them activating.
If I understand right, the Toshiba siren was built by the same Toshiba that makes electronics.
In a way... They started out in the 1930s as Shibura Brothers Radio Assembly Group of Tokyo, and then Tokyo-Shibura Electrical, and eventually came the household name Toshiba.
They've gotten into many kinds of manufacturing, and are now basically a conglomerate, and probably do very little of their own manufacturing anymore; at least not in Japan.
Charles
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:41 pm
by holler
For a while Sentry was using Toshiba motors in their sirens. The 10V2T in Prairie Du Sac, WI has a Toshiba motor.