Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Another great Thunderbolt. This one on East High school property in Wichita KS. There are still 62 of these tbolts left in Sedgwick county. See my other videos for one of these bad boys in attack mode.
its a A1 blower and LONG LIVE THE THUNDERBOLTS!
+AwesomeDesertTortoises LONG LIVE THE THUNDERBOLT 1003s!
LONG LIV ALL OV DEM!!!
This siren is still an active part of the county's system for anyone wondering
It’s dual tone
@@1000BTwhat does that have to do with anything mentioned in this comment, and it’s single tone idiot
When I was younger, so much younger than today... early to mid-1950's - this very model was erected on the Smith School Elementary School yard in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I can remember hearing it being tested for the first time. The sound scared the hello out of me as I was 6 or 8 years old at the time.
Hope today's sirens will never sound in "Attack Mode"...
Roy Lewis Atlanta, Georgia, USA
we got some of these & they STILL got the CD on them (Civil Defense) ours were built in the 1950s City uses them for tornado warnings
I once met the guy who donated this siren- he got two of them from somewhere in Texas and installed them himself. He is personally responsible for maintaining this siren.
The hiccup is caused by the blowoff valve weights lifting up and down during the winddown, venting out air and causing the hiccup. Adding another weight to the valve will probably stop it.
@97Siren I wouldn't be too sure about that. I believe that the early Thunderbolts had the "Tic-Tac bar", or the bars on the projector. Then, Federal Signal changed it to the screen on the projector. I'm not saying this couldn't be a 1952 Thunderbolt, but it could be a later Thunderbolt as well (1960's-1990).
Imagine hearing that at 2am..how eerie that would be.
That's correct, the same guy who maintained and tuned the Joyland organ for years and built his own pipe organ from scratch. The guys a real genius.
thanks
I used to go to elementary school about 60 yards from one of those. They spun it up during lunch one day (scheduled test) and it was vibrate-the-floor loud. It's kind of funny that no one coordinated a bomb drill, though. It was during the height of 80's reborn nuclear hysteria.
Ah, another fine performance..nothing rattles da' bones like a 1000.
I finally was able to see this siren in real life in Denver, CO ( Considering I only live in Southern California and the only sirens I get to see are SD-10s and Federal 500s left back from World War 2 ) and since it was on top of a building it didn't look that big but i have seen comparison pictures of people actually inside the cone so it gave me pretty good idea anyways.
lol if i got to use the voice test on a whelen i'd do all the "THIS IS A TEST" stuff but then I'd say, "I AM A WHELEN, AND I REALLY SUCK."
Thunderbolts 4ever.
@Thunderbolt1000T The school building it's located next to (where it gets its power from) has a three-phase service drop going to it, so I would assume the Thunderbolt is also three-phase, unless they just used two legs of it to provide single phase power to the siren. I'm going with it being three phase though.
THERE. This is the one my town has a couple of! It's the same pitch. One is only about a quarter mile from my house.
When i was a kid in the 80's that was the last thing i wanted to hear because i knew what it meant. A fact made too real when me and my family heard it while watching 2 funnels dancing about 3 miles from the house.
Now to me it means...Grab the cameras and head out! :P
This one is right behind the Grove Campus of Wichita Area Technical College. I talked to the guy who donated the siren (he gets to maintain it).
This is exactly what we had on the firehouse 1 block in front of us back in Evanston, IL. They tested it every Tuesday a.m. at 10:00.
probably the best 1000 recording on you tube.
2 hours ago, at 1:30, the tornado sirens (which are shaped just like this one, so I assume they were originally air raid sirens) were tested in our city. They were supposed to be tested Tuesday, but was postponed to today because of rain. Thankfully, it was (and is still) Spring Break for me, so I didn't have to go through all of that "duck-and-cover" stuff. But I have a bad feeling my school is going to do its own once I get back.
I love t-bolt 1000's! They don't have that nasty raspy sound that those 1000t's tend to have!!
The 1000 T sound raspy because they have gas powered blowers
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glad that Witchita keeps them in service! ive been there a couple times, never too long tho. alays on my way from here to oklahoma or back
I love it! Especially the end, that's my favorite creepy/cool sound!!
SN 6M! Sounds great!
@97Siren This siren is from a private collection. It was donated a few years ago and it came from out of state.
my siren is in a town about a few miles away and it is only a fire siren. sometimes they sound a different siren as a tornado warning or to signal a holiday
same here, CD emblem and all....and shound great!
Thunderbolts are the Mercedes of sirens
wow thunderbolt nearly blasted my ears out
yes i agree with you specially in the night !!!
Love the wind down.
Nice and healthy, It Would sound JUST like a 2001 on full tap.
i like the part were it went "WOOOOOOOO-OOOOOO-OOOOOOO-OOOOO"
Those suckers have a chilling wind up.
I love thunderbolts
anyone in the tristates(missouri,iowa,illinois)if you're looking to record a t-bolt,there's one in a small town called bushnell,illinois.im not sure when they test it or if you're even allowed to record it.(im guessing you have to ask the fire department cause the siren is mounted at the fire station)just letting you guys know that there's a working t-bolt 1000 right there(oh and i should mention its next to a model 3!)as for how to get to bushnell,just google map it.xD
man this thing killed the mic, but amazing vid, this one has a 6m blower
oh the thunderbolt 1000s here in limerick sound different. must be voltage differences but I know this is a thunderbolt 1000
The Thunderbolt makes the most wonderful sound; better than the 2001's and Whelens.
The 1000 is a single tone, the 1000T and 1003 are dual tone. The dual tone has a distinct sound, no matter what pitch it's at.
brand new 2001s are a bit louder than a 1000T and 1003 139 DB AT 100 FT BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE A LOUD POLICE SIREN
@ClarinetJordan15 It was made to alert the people of Americana about incoming nukes during the cold war. Now they are used for alerting people about disasters including tornadoes hurricanes, tsunami and other things. I LIVE IN ENGLAND
thumbs up if you've seen the thunderbolt at the minnesota state fair grounds. that one's sweet
You can occasionally find them on eBay for $2500-$3000 but if you can find a community that is updating to newer sirens you might be able to get one for a few hundred (if you're in the right place at the right time).
@hootergirlsrhot Yeah i dont blame you. But the thunderbolt at least have a blower compared to the 2001 that has only the chopper.
sounds like the Grand Blanc, MI thunderbolt
I have one of these right down the street from me. They're sooooooo LOUD
My 1000b came with a single tone rotor and dual tone stator cap.
sounds very good and healthy! nice recording!
i was watching the video air rade at base ball game at full volume and it creeped me out. i jumped really high
@Branden2732 that was just on the prototype thunderbolt 1000
@97siren this is NOT a '52 model-no jail bar!
sounds like an RSH 10 Thunderbeam
No it sounds like a thunderbolt 1000
Thunderbolt 1000T You are right it does :)
it is supposed to sound like that.
Coolness....
@97Siren Ah, I see. I didn't notice the other comments. Also, what exactly does the A1 blower sound like comared to a later (B or C series) blower?
I am going to guess that this is chopper level 6 or 7. I am not sure which though.
@GinoRc Sorry. Those sirens were out of production since 1988. :(
@GinoRc
Get a 1003; it can double as a fire alarm.
Who makes them?
Do they work off of air or electricity?
How do you control the speed at which it rotates and the sound it makes?
cool!
Cool.
@97Siren Probably isn't, it has a screen and not the bars.
First siren I've ever heard, they took it down back in 2003 tho =(
you are right
They should have a justian beiber siren
This thunderbolt hiccups on wind down! I see alot of them do that. Why do they do that? Maitenence problem, or are they simply born to do that?
Lol I love how there are no sirens in canada :P
oh chopper level ya?
Well let's go get 'em :)
@DrummerCoCa You got your opinion and I got mine. So anyway how are ya?
update:most of them are gone now only like 3 1000Ts are left
No, there are WAY more thunderbolts than that in Wichita
sirens scare me!!
@97Siren
You may be right, but I'm curious, how do you come to that conclusion?
@soccerk8te38 sound like chopper level 8 or 9
its really high pitched
"how do you know that" ???
yes it is the single tone thunderblt
Keaton0801 yes
nah bro it isn't voltage you can change the chopper to spin on a higher speed thus making the siren higher pitched.
at the end it has terrible hiccups
how faraway can that thing be herd
Interesting, but seems as though something is reverse wired.............
Let's hear it in attack!
a good tool to piss of the naberhood with cool
Fire Alert??
my ear's are ringing now -_-
was this a drill?
@taylor2010happy Its way bigger on the ground.
how can u tell its a 1000 not a 1000t . the 1000 is alot higher pitch than the 1000t and the 1003
Sounds like my pc tower.
k i can't reply to it but someone asked how many db. the single tone thunderbolts are 127 and the dual tone are 126.
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Even awesomer? The 6M blowers gave these a little more volume and I think maybe the 5Ms did too... Not so much for the single tone ones but for sure the dual tone ones. The 5M gave a dual tone siren a 2-3 DB boost and maybe a single tone one too? Who knows... But with the adjustable pitch you can get one of these sirens to carry further in terms of volume.
I heard from Ian Murr that the 5M did not give 1000's that much of a punch over the 4M.. But the 6M did. The 1000T's got more punch from the 5M, and slightly more than that from the 6M. Not necessarily because of output, as the 5M beats it in that regard.. (325 CFM for the 5M and 280 for the 6M). It's just the alow speed of the 6M (900 RPM) that gives generation A1 Thunderbolts, both 1000, and 1000T that distinct growl, and which is what makes them slightly louder than the rest of the series.
Carlos... He was talking to me when he said that. I also talked to FS. This comment is quite old... But FS did say that the single tone bolts were beastly loud especially brand new. Still beastly loud when they were older. The Thunderbolt is for sure a siren to respect as it is the first and loudest of it's kind (In C weighted DB.) Jeb and Ian both say that the single tone bolt isn't as attention getting as the dual tone ones and that it blends into background noise... But once in lincoln NEI heard this weird sound coming from outside. It was this single tone hum. It grabbed my attention right away as it was VERY potent and did not sound like anything from the background that I had ever heard! Well we opened the front door and then we could hear what it was. Turns out it was the thunderbolt 1000 (at twice the distance of the 2001s) and I could hear any of the other sirens until we opened the front door... So I tend to disagree on personal experience but that's why I ask for others experiences... To compare mine with theirs.
Haha I understand. Just saw the comment and decided to give my two cents
Lol! Yea. Some hurricane nuts will say the bolt is inferior but when you consider the easier fixing, The adjustable frequency (And the fact that the single tone bolts actually are louder... The hurricane may seem louder but it isn't. There is a video on youtube where you can hear a single tone thunderbolt from 9 miles away.) the easy installation and the WAY less power and size... It is just a much better siren. The thing with the bolts besides just being loud is that they are potent.
how much would one of these cost?
2012
Sounds like a 2001
reminds me of fallout 3
i have one of these in ma school but i tink it doesnt work
@DrummerCoCa Fine.
you mean attack mode?
IS this one still here?
Yes. It is now a 1000AT though, it's chopper was switched out a few years ago.
A1 blower?
any possible way i can get one when they are taken down?