Easily one of the coolest sirens Federal ever made.

@thatsirenenthusiast

6 ай бұрын

Agreed

@MarcusToroian

5 ай бұрын

Possibly the coolest. They designed and engineered this unique, massive dual tone rotor/stator that clearly does its job fantastically well, and then just abandoned it and never used it for any other subsequent model. Try to think of another rotor that they never used in more than one siren. The STL-10 is the only other one i can think of, but there’s nothing particularly special about that one. It’s just big and low pitched. This one has curved rotor vanes, angled ports, one of the only directional rotors Federal ever made. It’s clear that a lot of thought was put into it. I’d love to know the reason why it was made, and the reason why it never got used for any other purpose.

@thunderbolt10031

5 ай бұрын

@@MarcusToroian they aren’t curved. They’re straight vanes just like all other Federal sirens. Stator is bidirectional too. They did that purposely so you lose no performance if it’s wired backwards. It was a much more mature design overall though. Super cool machine

@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL

Ай бұрын

Fr. These things were also used in the design of the 2001, and were made to be a more reliable option than the Thunderbolt which it was a great job at. Only problem with it is the belt driven rotator. That is why they created the 2001-SRNs which are basically 500-SHs with the chopper assembly reversed and they put it on a Thunderbolt rotator as it’s much better than the 500’s rotator. IMO they should’ve kept the chopper assembly how it is and kept the overall design of the 500 the same, just put a DC motor into it which is the same one as on any 2001 and put it on a Thunderbolt or 2001-130/Equinox/508 rotator. Then we would still be able to have dual tone sirens which would be more distinct from other sirens and background noise, and be louder than a 2001

God Abilene has such an epic system

@user-nx7fr3qp3v

5 ай бұрын

All the Active Sirens In Boone County is 2001s, 1 Eclipse-8, and an STH-10.

@user-nx7fr3qp3v

5 ай бұрын

All The Sirens in My Area are 2001s.

@thewitheredforge6168

Ай бұрын

@@user-nx7fr3qp3v i have no siren :( but also VERY dangorus to not have sirens

@user-nx7fr3qp3v

Ай бұрын

Yeah. Sacramento relies on EAS Alarms. That is a Dumb Move.

A totally awesome sounding siren!

God have not been to Abilene in years man last time I was up there went to the Eisenhower library. From Topeka you guys be safe out there and ty for the video!

That sounds so nice against the peaceful environment ambience.

Sounds good! I love these sirens!

Such an amazing and intimidating sound!

This is the other one! Finally a video of this beast

@bigboyrailfan971

7 ай бұрын

Man I can tell you what this is my lucky day when I saw that 500 cuz it's not very many left

Always with the good content. Another cool video

This is awesome!!! Great video!

The doppler effects in this video are AMAZING!

@bigboyrailfan971

8 ай бұрын

I know right

I'm hoping I can catch an alerter here soon

Great catch

10/10 would recommend

@bigboyrailfan971

9 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that

AWESOME!!! Was it loud? I wanna come here someday this summer

@bigboyrailfan971

9 ай бұрын

Yes it was!

Sounds like a 2t22 Tornado Siren

@bigboyrailfan971

5 ай бұрын

I agree 100%

@2tjanthony

4 ай бұрын

Same chopper motor as the 2t22.

beautiful recording!!!

@bigboyrailfan971

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

You are brave enough to let your self hear those sirens but heed the warning seriously if they are sounding because of a tornado threat sincerely Shannon

@bigboyrailfan971

3 ай бұрын

Thay was only testing them bud

This is still a great video! 👍🏻🤗

@bigboyrailfan971

9 ай бұрын

I know right I just started liking this hobby of videoing loves and believe it or not it goes off every Tuesday and Abilene Kansas

Sounds like a 2t22

Awesome! When did they switch the 500s to alert? Or did they only switch this one?

@bigboyrailfan971

6 ай бұрын

Bro I just found out that they switched them to alert earlier last year and slowly your gonna hate Kansas because they are taking down the older generation sirens slowly and replace them with the newer Generations

I wonder how this older 500 Siren would do against a modern 508 Siren today the 508-128 soundwise

Sounds like a smaller version of a thunderbolt

@bigboyrailfan971

8 ай бұрын

I know right

Could i use the audio from this for a game I'm making?

Is the SHTT a rare variant of the 500? How many of the SHTT were made? And what does SHTT stand for?

@comet6885

6 ай бұрын

They were/are rare sirens due to poor advertisement by Federal Signal Corp, thus leading to only a smaller amount being ordered and made. The SHTT in it's name stands for "Single Horn Two Tone"

@bigboyrailfan971

6 ай бұрын

No thare not rare if you want a rare one look for the double-headed two-tone 500 and it only sets off one time of year

@bigboyrailfan971

6 ай бұрын

The only place I know there's 500 is Abilene Kansas

This year old siren federal signal 500shtt google found it replaced sentry:(

@kansasclocksandsirens

5 ай бұрын

???Question Mark???

It looks like a aca p15

what is this and why did you post it? Can you tell us more about this siren video?

@BRISTOLFORCE2009

8 ай бұрын

It’s a federal signal 500SHTT and because why the fuck not, it’s a rare siren as well

@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799

8 ай бұрын

@@BRISTOLFORCE2009 oh cool. We don't have them in UK...

Wait, so Abilene has more than one of those 500 SHTT's?

@kansasclocksandsirens

5 ай бұрын

They've got 2, used to have 3