Coopersville, Michigan sirens

[EL1998P71]

I was out in Coopersville today for their first friday of the month noon test.
the town has a STL-10, a yellow Thunderbeam, and a 2001.
STL-10 is on City hall, RSH-10 is at the High school, and the 2001 is 3 blocks south of city hall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efzku6D1JiQ

And here are the pic's I took of each siren.

[uncommonsense]

Wow...look at that. They put a new motor on the Thunderbeam (look at the motor--definitely not an original Thunderbeam motor) and added battery back-up. You've sure got to give them brownie points for effort. Never seen anything like it.

[ginbot86]

Great pics - I like how that Thunderbeam's been refurbished with new gear too.

[kswx29]

I heard the Thunderbeam in that video. Between :15 and :19, 1:44-1:47 and other times as well.

[Charlie Davidson]

Nice pictures and video!

I noticed the Thunderbeam had a battery box on the pole, any idea why in the world it would have that? I could see it being for the controller itself but surely not the siren! I also see two control boxes, a late 1990's version then a later one (2006-ish). I wonder what's up with that.

[ginbot86]

I noticed the Thunderbeam had a battery box on the pole, any idea why in the world it would have that? ...

Perhaps they retrofitted the Thunderbeam with a DC motor or something?

[Charlie Davidson]

I noticed the Thunderbeam had a battery box on the pole, any idea why in the world it would have that? ...

Perhaps they retrofitted the Thunderbeam with a DC motor or something?

That was what I had thought at first, but the Thunderbeam's chopper rotor is way too much for a DC motor of that size to handle easily, plus the battery box would have to be twice if not three times bigger than what it is to hold all of the batteries it would take to run it.

[holler]

Looks like a J frame pump motor.

[EL1998P71]

Here's the info I got from WSS about this configuration.

From top to bottom

1 way controls

Motor Starter

2 way digital upgrade

For whatever reason, the technician left the one way controls on and tied the two way upgrade cabinet into it.

Andy Homrich

Parts & Production Manager

West Shore Services, Inc.

Outdoor Warning Systems

So it looks like they just left the old cabinet on the pole to save time.

[SouthDakotaBoy2009]

doh! I think they just needed the Two way control cabinet & not the batt box. How Odd...