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by Blasty
Mon Jun 02, 2025 2:17 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Model 5
Replies: 9
Views: 26030

Re: Model 5

Oof! I wouldn't ever power that up for real with that chunk missing.
by Blasty
Wed May 28, 2025 1:35 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Coded 2001 siren
Replies: 23
Views: 58198

Re: Coded 2001 siren

Yeah, honestly, until the admins stop allowing bull like this to be posted, I'm done here. All you kids do is lie and make stuff up. None of this crap would have been allowed in the old days. Current moderation will delete the thread if you lambast stupid kids the way we used to, or even so much as...
by Blasty
Fri May 23, 2025 6:41 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Can somebody please tell me what the thin cones inside the EOWS horns are for?
Replies: 2
Views: 3626

Re: Can somebody please tell me what the thin cones inside the EOWS horns are for?

It's a reentrant horn. Think of a very long straight horn (like the PA horns commonly mounted alongside sirens in Japan) that has been folded twice to make it more compact while maintaining the same effective length. There's a nice visualization here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_loudspeaker#P...
by Blasty
Thu May 22, 2025 5:57 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: New siren and some current issues
Replies: 8
Views: 24780

Re: New siren and some current issues

Nice! I had a siren under the hood of my '91 Camaro convertible. I took it back out when I sold it but left the pull switch in the dashboard so people could scratch their heads about it. :lol: Stupid, stupid thing it was to sell that car when I got something more sensible for city driving. I was poo...
by Blasty
Tue Sep 19, 2023 1:35 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Chrysler in New Zealand
Replies: 13
Views: 25130

Re: Chrysler in New Zealand

HDN wrote:
Sat Sep 02, 2023 1:05 am
I wonder how much horsepower and torque the siren can handle...
The Chrysler-Bell Victory Siren was powered by a 140hp in-line 8 cylinder engine, and the Chrysler Air Raid Siren a 180hp V8, for what it's worth. That doesn't tell you what it *could* handle, though.
by Blasty
Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:35 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Chrysler in New Zealand
Replies: 13
Views: 25130

Re: Chrysler in New Zealand

The pictures are still around at least, not sure if the siren in Zhangzhou still works. I can't believe it! Thank you so much for finding these. It had been so long that it felt like I was recalling a dream I had, but sure enough, there they are. The same sirens from those long-lost video clips. Be...
by Blasty
Fri Jul 21, 2023 6:35 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Chrysler in New Zealand
Replies: 13
Views: 25130

Re: Chrysler in New Zealand

I thought for a moment someone had really found a Chrysler-Bell Victory Siren. *Sigh...* Fix your post. Maybe 15 years ago - just going from loose memory - there were known to be two Chrysler-Bells still in China that the US sent over there. The only two known to remain. One had since been fitted wi...
by Blasty
Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:28 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: CLM Siren Restoration
Replies: 8
Views: 8231

Re: CLM Siren Restoration

I would like to add, if you are having any trouble with that control unit: If you can trace out what is going on with the in-tact wiring to the best of your ability, I could take a crack at figuring out what to do with the rest of the cut wires to get this thing operating. A large part of my job inv...
by Blasty
Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:49 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: CLM Siren Restoration
Replies: 8
Views: 8231

Re: CLM Siren Restoration

Neat! I'm more fascinated by that old open-style contactor. Can't quite tell what's going on there. Looks like what appears to be a pair of normally-closed contacts (that's odd) and another pair in parallel on the other end underneath... something? Have ya reverse-engineered the schematic yet? Curio...

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