Yeah. That's what the 1003 was originally designed for. Hi-Lo for fire calls alert and attack for civil defense use. That's cool that they still use the hi-lo for fire calls!

They sound like HEAVEN

These terrified me as a child when we lived in NW Arlington, VA in the early 1960's on Saturday tests...And you have TWO of them running in your garage!! Totally awesome! Now to run both of them in the garage with each of their roots blowers running full power...keep the garage door closed of course!

@evazane6754

2 жыл бұрын

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This is awesome! Nice u have 2 1003's.

Sounds like one of those really annoying alarm clocks, but I can live with these. XD

@TheFiremansavage I don't have the Ark horn rotator mounted to anything so I can run the rotator. I just got the chopper and solenoids put together yesterday on the Ark 1003. I haven't had time to do anything else with it. It wouldn't be worth the trouble to drag all that outside anyway.

@thunderboltlover The blower the sherman horn rotator is on is from Dallas. The camera is sitting on the blower frame from Arkansas. The frame is sitting on it's end. You can see the blower box from Arkansas at 1:38 in the video. It's standing on end. The siren isn't from Little Rock. It's from some small town around Pine Bluff. I can't remember what town.

0:52 I love the sound of this!!

@Joshieguy_

3 жыл бұрын

In sync sirens

@tyaju7574

Ай бұрын

They sound like some kind of 3t22 doing hi-lo

The sound of the Sherman 1003 makes me cry.

@coydog7902

6 жыл бұрын

Same

@xXSo1arGamingXx

6 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@Sirenynx

5 жыл бұрын

Wait what why-

@sportzgrl4god

5 жыл бұрын

thunderbolt10031000tfan why does it make you cry be a big boi

@CJ-uq9he

5 жыл бұрын

Why

@ArduinoAlan It uses solenoids to alternately close the high and low pitch sections of the chopper. I have another video up that shows how it works.

XD Dual Toned Hi-lo's......EPIC!!!!!!!

1:06 i like this sound off :v

@xXSo1arGamingXx

5 жыл бұрын

same

These 1003’s are historic and nostalgic only real siren enthusiasts would understand

@muhammadtristan1939

6 жыл бұрын

WolfDogFilms dab

@coydog7902

6 жыл бұрын

>Muhammad Tristan Wtf no

@muhammadtristan1939

6 жыл бұрын

Lel

@bitchlasagna4720

6 жыл бұрын

"enthusiasts" more like autists

@coydog7902

6 жыл бұрын

*Autism power*

The chopper rotator mounted up on the blower is on permanent loan from the city of sherman. The blower it's mounted on was recovered from an old dallas fire station that was demolished. I got it from the demolition company. The 1003 I got from arkansas came from a guy who recovered it from a city lot it had been sitting in for about 10 years.

@SuperUTBER You can't tell how loud it is from the video. Yes I probably should be wearing protectors but both of these sirens running together aren't as loud as an average rock concert. With them both running like this it's not even loud outside the garage. There is very little air moving through the choppers when running them like this. Notice on my videos where I have any air going through the choppers at all I'm wearing hearing protectors.

i see. i live in a town that has 1 still working thunderbolt 1003 and ive been here for 2 months and ive heard it go off several times for fire calls. when they blast that siren they use the Hi-Lo setting. i think they also use that alert tone for tornado warnings

@SuperUshistory They have only had minimal work done on them. One was sold. I still have the one I got from sherman. The one with the horn mounted on the blower.

Wow those tbolts are big I never knew they were that big

hi eric do you remember me i emailed you about the mini tbolt and sweet vid ps my name is scott

Hopefully one day I’ll see the 1003 in Grafton MA

Cool thunderbolt 1003 sirens

@rhett443 I should have said that both control panels are hooked up to 240. The Sherman 1003 chopper is running on 210 and the Arkansas 1003 chopper is running 170.

@vanamonde2 Thanks. I thought you sold both of them based on the two thunderbolts on the civil defense museum website.

sounds like my computers hard drive after i dropped it...

One chopper level 7, and one chopper level 5?

@thespermsharkthespermwhale1938

2 ай бұрын

Two Lita Kino's! And these are one level 5 and one level 3

I like the sound of the Sherman 1003 I don't know what you are talking about🤷‍♂️😕

@techandgameswithaboy5324

5 жыл бұрын

Opinions..

Wow!!!!! That's insane

@rhett443 No both are running on 240.

Those sirens are gonna scare the tornados away

I found a thunderbolt for sale for $2,000. It is a complete set including a single phase blower, all the control boxes etc. Is $2,000 a good buy?

i see i thought they were way louder than that because i live 3 blocks away from where one still active and in use 1003 sits. and on the wind down you can hear the low gutteral growl it makes when the horn turns and points my direction. and i can hear that growl clear as a bell from inside my house. and 125 db i know is enough to make your ears ring but not damage your eardrums even if you stuck your head into the horn while its runnin

I noticed your fallout shelter sign and the old rations of food supply

@TheFiremansavage Not enough room and the ark 1003 isn't mounted to anything to allow the rotator to run with the horn attached.

I can see the switchy thingy moving on the siren.

@EstateManor Yeah. They already have the air supply there in the organ!!

So the check valves on the blower determine on how much air goes into the chopper? And thats why the Sherman 1003 is higher-toned than the Arkansas one?

Yeah. Pretty much. There are some differences in the sizes of the rotator boxes but you could say they are all the same size.

@Barricade360 I sold one and still have the one with the horn mounted up on the blower.

Nice car alarm.

In the middle when there dual tone and line up its sounds like minecraft subwoofer lullaby

The HIGH hilo is cool and the low one too

An octave lower is wayyyyy more that "slightly" lower. If you play my garage test of the fire station 10 siren and then the full up run of the exact same chopper set on the exact same setting in the oak ridge test video you can see the difference between blower and no blower.

right. yea they do hi lo but (and i don't know if you know this so forgive me if you do) but the blower makes it loud and the solanoids ("bowtie" at the base of the horn) affect the hi lo sound. the 1000/T can't do the hi lo... a 3t22 has solanoids that are harder to see.

where did you get it?

All over the place. It's my garge storage system. Those barrels hold, unbuilt model kits, christmas decorations, old toys, etc. etc. etc. etc. Only a few actually have the original contents.

with blowers they litteraly sound like leaf blowers LOL, they even have almost the same internals

Does that happen to be an A1 Blower on the Sherman 1003?

Nice Vid!!!

I think one of these would be great in a theatre pipe organ! Most Wurlitzers had several federal sirens in the pipe chambers in the fox theatre organs.

@brintiktik

Жыл бұрын

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@brintiktik

Жыл бұрын

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YOU HAVE TWO OF THEM!!!!!!!!!

My Elemantary school had a Thunderbolt, but they got rid of it. Are all Thunderbolts the same size?

@cweis127 He's not running these with the blowers on (if he was he'd blow his eardrums). The choppers on these 2 sirens are spinning at different speeds.

@MichaelJavert13 Well first of all I'm not - blowing civil defense sirens- I'm in a closed garage running only the choppers on the thunderbolts. It's not as loud as a 100 watt Marshall amp with a 4x12 cabinet would be if it was turned half way up. I only do this on weekdays when the neighbors are at work so I really doubt if any of them have ever heard me do it. The Model 5 i have run in my garage is full volume but again I only do it on weekdays when everyone is at work and it's sunny out.

hey man are those things really heavy or are they sort of light????

how does it modulate the pitch?

those 1003's sound like they need there choppers cleaned

One came from Arkansas one from Sherman. I say that in the first 14 seconds of the video.

@lisaperez2850

3 жыл бұрын

Wow

Sounds like a dual tone Hilo all together

Where did you find those?

Him *turns on siren* *ppl outside* Ppl: Wth is that sound we gotta run theres a fire

@AcaAllertor127 Yeah that is weird. It's right before they get in sync.

That's solenoid not solanoid. If you will look at my other videos I have a demonstration of the 1003 solenoid valves operating.

What was that white thing bin the siren

Which one is high Pitch

how do you have enough juice to run these both at same time! they draw 20-30 amps apiece!

@vanamonde2

3 жыл бұрын

In the video title AND description I state "NO BLOWERS" Each one is drawing maybe 3 or 4 amp each with only the chopper motors running. IF I did want to run them with the blowers then I probably would have enough capacity because I have 200 amp service to my panel.

What the chopper level on Arkansas 1003

0:53 that sound awemazing

What does the blower do?

@Barricade360 They were restored and sent to smaller cities to be their warning sirens

This mah jam

who means solenoids?

What is your name that talked in the beginning of the video & who's the guy who turned on the siren may you please reply to my question

@vanamonde2

2 жыл бұрын

Same guy talking at the beginning that turns the sirens on.

i like it

The blower forces a high volume of air at low pressure through the siren chopper (rotor) causing the high sound volume. I guess the air being forced through the chopper might change the pitch a little but not much. That's what the 2hp chopper motor is for. The pitch can be set on the thunderbolt by changing the voltage to the chopper motor. There's a transformer with several different voltage taps in the control cabinet that does that. The pitch can be changed by wiring to the pitch desired.

I thought Sirens were supposed to be stuck on the floor how did someone give it to you instead of taking it out of the floor

really how did you survive 2 1003's?

The first one has a 5/6 chopper,with no blower,you got yourself a 10/12 thunderbolt.

when i first moved here i was suprised to find that this town had 1 working thunderbolt siren still in use. most cities ive been too rarely have those anymore because they all replaced them with those crappy federal 2001s. whats the maximum decibel rating for the thunderbolt if you put the blower on full power?

@FreddyFazbear-os4su

2 жыл бұрын

125 db dual tone. 127 db single tone.

Did you buy that?

These are some powerful sirens, one of these guys used to be across the street from my old apartment complex lol! There's actually a video of it being tested on here too. I can't believe you have these in your garage, how much do these things cost?

@vanamonde2

10 жыл бұрын

They didn't cost me anything other than the removal for one of the horn rotator assemblies. The other complete siren was given to me and the blower from the other one came from a fire station in Dallas that was torn down. This video is three and a half years old. I only have one now and it needs a home in a small town where it can be put back into service.

@ccfan81

8 жыл бұрын

BOB!theGMObanana Let me look for it and comment you the link to the video when I get home this evening. :)

do the blowers on the 1003s effect how loud they get, or do they just effect the tone pitch?

@FreddyFazbear-os4su

2 жыл бұрын

They effect how loud the get. They supercharge the sound so it's really loud!

0:47 o m g

Can you make a Thundebolt 1003 do alternate wail?

@J19_vlogger74

Жыл бұрын

yes. press "ATTACK" on the timer and then turn the modulator on in the rcm3

124-125ish at 100 feet supposedly. There is nothing less than "full power" with a thunderbolt blower. You turn it on and it's running at full power as it is.

How did you get these removed from the pole

@vanamonde2

Жыл бұрын

I had 1 removed... www.civildefensemuseum.com/sirens/sherman/index.html

They look bigger up close than they do on a 90 foot poll

The Upper Right one is the Sherman 1003, And the Lower Left is the Arkansas 1003 0:37 sherman starts 0:44 arkansas starts

@1013imanol I guess because the pitch is higher.... beats me....

how did you get tosse sirens?

@vanamonde2

2 жыл бұрын

One was given to me by a guy in Arkansas and the other was loaned to me by the town of Sherman texas. I eventually paid them for it when it was returned to them and sold at auction. That siren has been put back in service in Upson county Georgia. The siren from Arkansas went to a family in west texas years ago.

Eventually once I visit you, I really want to see the Sherman 1003

@vanamonde2

3 жыл бұрын

That siren is in Georgia now. It's being put back into service in Upson county Georgia

@TexasRailfan2008

3 жыл бұрын

vanamonde2 did it come from Sherman tx?

@vanamonde2

3 жыл бұрын

@@TexasRailfan2008 the 1003 I had came from Sherman and is now back in service in Upson county Georgia

Greetings :) I'm planning to start a project for a collection of warning sirens around the world by asking permission & giving credits for the original respective owners when using their videos. May i get your permission ? :)

@vanamonde2

3 жыл бұрын

No. Do not use my videos for other purposes.

@aliultimate009

3 жыл бұрын

@@vanamonde2 Alright no problem 👍

@tylersteffen200 Not any more.

0:50 oi thats a 2t22

@MichaelJavert13 Get into trouble for what?

Are you the owner of the civil defense museum?

1:05 is my favorite

I'm sure glad you're not my neighbor. 😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍

can these run on 110v or are they higher voltage

@ObamaTookMyCat

7 жыл бұрын

they are 220-240v. depends on what chopper sound you are going for.

@condimentking14

7 жыл бұрын

! ObamaTookMyCat ! where dose one find one I am in California and would enjoy one of those 1003s

@vanamonde2

7 жыл бұрын

the choppers can run on 110 volts. That's the lowest voltage on the chopper transformer.

well the horn is big enough to stick your head about half way down but i dont see very many people doing that. lolz. what im talking about is that i used to worry about loud noises causing me to go deaf, now its like id rather be the one making the noise and making my own ears explode. and using one of those thunderbolts would be a good start i suppose

Neighbors must love you

@vanamonde2

10 жыл бұрын

They never hear them.

@Elizabeth-ts4om

8 жыл бұрын

+vanamonde2 how? Those things are loud af!

@vanamonde2

8 жыл бұрын

The neighbors aren't usually home when I run them because I do it in the middle of the day on a weekday and as I have said dozens of times on here, They aren't that loud. If they are home when I run them and they are inside with the doors and windows closed I seriously doubt if they hear them. The booming car stereo jerks that blast up and down our street are far more sound invasive than my stupid Thunderbolts with no blowers. Now when I ran the Model 5 in the garage they could most likely hear that if they were home which they weren't at the time....