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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:32 am

Not sure if this has been asked but is that one still there?
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:48 am

Well it was as of Memorial Day, when I last passed by it.
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Wed Aug 09, 2017 12:53 pm

TEST We are sounding the sirens today at noon for about 30 seconds to preform our ongoingmaintenance check of our sirens and to correct a procedural error from last weeks scheduled test. Pass it on please and listen for your closest siren.

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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:48 pm

Thanks for letting us know!

By the way, do you have any information on what happened to the Greenhills T-128?

EDIT: My test feedback: The sirens around South Fairmount seemed to go for about 30 seconds, but I could hear at least one or two in the distance that got stuck running for about 3 minutes.
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Wed Aug 09, 2017 6:12 pm

Campbell County, KY

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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Wed Aug 09, 2017 6:22 pm

The T-128 at Beechmont and Markley ran for 3 minutes.

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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:41 pm

Is it possible that the EMA does silent testing regularly, somehow knows when a siren needs a simple repair without doing a regular test, or regularly does routine maintenance on each siren? Today, I noticed that the Calhoun Hall T-128 is pointed in a different position than where it stopped for this month’s test. I ask, because it performed just fine for the test, and am kind of surprised to see it in a different position.
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:50 pm

Good eye. I was there for preventive maintenance today. We replaced the batteries and gel cell. When ASC/ANC installed ALL the sirens they installed every one incorrectly (nothing
major but half assed) For example they used VHF connectors on a lot of the interface cables to the radio and forced the connector into a N-Type connector, ALL the battery blankets have been installed wrong and even has instructions on them, screws on the terminal block have been so loose that sometimes the door open/close alarm goes off, Battery cables were on backwards and the wrong way. So I have been going on preventive maintenance runs, and tomorrow I will be replacing 4 slip rings that have burned up due to a manufactures defect. This is our 14th or 15th siren (10%) of new sirens that have had burnt brushes or slip rings burnt up.

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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Sat Sep 30, 2017 1:57 am

We have replaced 15 slip rings on the newer sirens in Hamilton County.
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Sat Sep 30, 2017 4:08 am

Yeowch. Some of those sure don't look too good! Glad they're fixed now.
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