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Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Tue Jul 08, 2014 2:31 am

The final stop of the day led me to a meet up with TommyBNSF. This Thunderbeam is located at Harmon Field/Stamm Elementary near the center of the city. It runs in 3 minutes of alert for the monthly test. Obviously wind and my camera don't get along too well :wink:



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Re: Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Tue Jul 08, 2014 2:45 am

That rotator is not a happy camper...
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Re: Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Thu Jul 10, 2014 7:39 am

VASirens wrote:That rotator is not a happy camper...
I was about to say! Doesn't look like the disc did a full turn until after the siren shut down. Might need to be reported to whatever agency does maintenance on it.
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Re: Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Thu Jul 10, 2014 2:52 pm

Yeah, it is only sending maximum sound to one side of the site. May be time for replacement. Thunderbeams are hard to find someone willing to fix them, or that knows how to.
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Re: Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Fri Jul 11, 2014 12:04 am

Frankly, it was a bad design.
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Re: Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Fri Jul 11, 2014 12:38 am

emofficer wrote:Yeah, it is only sending maximum sound to one side of the site. May be time for replacement. Thunderbeams are hard to find someone willing to fix them, or that knows how to.
Daniel wrote:Frankly, it was a bad design.
May as well rip out the rotating mechanism and fabricate a metal cone to set on the floor of the cage and reflect the sound in all directions at once.
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Re: Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Fri Jul 11, 2014 2:31 am

Toledo 2t22 wrote: May as well rip out the rotating mechanism and fabricate a metal cone to set on the floor of the cage and reflect the sound in all directions at once.
Trivia: Federal patented such a design when patenting the T-Beam

https://www.google.com/patents/US452996 ... cQ6AEwBDge
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Re: Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Fri Jul 11, 2014 2:38 am

uncommonsense wrote:Trivia: Federal patented such a design when patenting the T-Beam

https://www.google.com/patents/US452996 ... cQ6AEwBDge
Well Great minds think alike I guess... I got it! Take the cage, the rotation mechanism and everything else but the guts. Then just put little projector horns on all the ports! Foolproof! I bet they don't have anything like that yet ;)
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Re: Fremont, OH Thunderbeam 7-5-14

Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:01 am

Toledo 2t22 wrote:
uncommonsense wrote:Trivia: Federal patented such a design when patenting the T-Beam

https://www.google.com/patents/US452996 ... cQ6AEwBDge
Well Great minds think alike I guess... I got it! Take the cage, the rotation mechanism and everything else but the guts. Then just put little projector horns on all the ports! Foolproof! I bet they don't have anything like that yet ;)
EGADS! Its so brilliant! How did anyone not come up with it before? Its genius! And its so simple!
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