Farmingdale's new ambulance

[Truckie6119]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H5gZUyy ... ed&search=

[thunderbeam63]

MY EYES!!!!!MY EYES!!!!!!!!

[StonedChipmunk]

Holy crap, that's awesome... you don't see an ambulance with a Powercall (much less a Q) anymore! I always loved the Powercall siren.
Plus, think you could get them to put more lights on that thing? It must blind people at night!

[Daniel]

Dang! That thing looks like a rolling Vegas casino!

[loudmouth]

thats not much lights i seen a pic a while back of a ambulance that needed to have a seprate generator just to keep the lights going and help with the electric load.

[Shinkansen]

btw, thats no Q2B. Thats a EQ.

[Robert Gift]

If the lights were coordinated, it would be MUCH more noticeable than all the little random blinks. Note that headlights are the most eye catching. Both flashing simultaneously, rather than wig-wag, would be much better.
EQ siren and an electronic siren??

[ermaff6231]

holy smokes thats one very impressive rig lights are awesome love the combo of power call and eq

[StonedChipmunk]

EQs sound much better with an echo than not. Have you heard the recordings on FS's website? Hideous!

Robert, have you been in a hole for the past decade? EQ is an electronically generated siren. Much less current draw than Q, that's why a lot of departments are switching. It really sounds like a Q from far away or with a large echo, doesn't it?

Anyways, a lot of departments use an EQ or Q2B with a powercall, but only on firetrucks. I've never seen it on an ambulance.

[Robert Gift]

EQs sound much better with an echo than not. Have you heard the recordings on FS's website? Hideous!

Robert, have you been in a hole for the past decade? EQ is an electronically generated siren. Much less current draw than Q, that's why a lot of departments are switching. It really sounds like a Q from far away or with a large echo, doesn't it?

Anyways, a lot of departments use an EQ or Q2B with a powercall, but only on firetrucks. I've never seen it on an ambulance.

You'll laugh.
In the distance I heard Aurora FD engine responding.
Suddenly, their Q instantly silenced.
They must have hit something, instantly stopping/destroying their bumper-mounted Q.

It was an eQ, which I never knew existed. They had switched it off in mid wail.

Our 200 watt Unitrol into 2 TS100 speakers is louder than the eQ, apparently because the square eQ speaker box is not as efficient as the TS100 exponential horns. Also the eQ has much grill covering the box opening, which I think is another impediment.

What is a Powercall?

I oppose two sirens. Needless wasted expense. One is enough.
I drove an ambulance which had a Q and Unitrol 200 watt into two
chrome CP100s. (the best speakers ever made) Both sirens sounding was no better than one.
BUT, the CPs at the low frequency of wail projected sound farther ahead than the Q. At low frequency, the Q was not as loud as at high RPM.