Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- This thunderbolt will be going up for sale on ebay. It is completely functional. The top rotor box has some sheet metal damage but no internal damage. Right now it is setup for 208 3 phase. The only part that needs 3 phase is the 7.5hp blower motor. You could change the motor to a 240vac version or just get rid of it all together and use a leaf blower. It doesn't take that much air to make it loud but the more air the louder it is.
This setup is only temporary and is not meant to use regularly this way. Proper wiring will need to be done. It is only put together this way to be able to ship it and let the buyer do all the customizing.
I own one of these and had it installed for 10 years. A recording does not do this thing justice. The best way I can describe this thing is BONE RATTLING loud. It really is quite an experience and will leave you with an ear-to-ear grin time and time again.
I had absolutely no idea these things had blowers. No wonder they were so loud. Without the blower, the air velocity through the "chopper" or siren, is dependent on rotor RPM, so it gets quieter the lower the pitch. With a blower, the air speed is determine by how much back pressure that little roots can push against the siren, and since it's a roots with a beefy motor, that back pressure is a LOT - PSI, not "inches of water column". So now, low tones can be arbitrarily loud, in fact, its loudness will change almost not at all with pitch / RPM change, which is very cool for having different signals while maintaining effectiveness. And low tones carry further than high in urban or even forested settings. It appears to take really large arrays of high powered electrodynamic speakers to compete, but they don't require maintenance, and these did.
You know way to much for not knowing they had blowers. I haven't tested to see how much psi the blower puts out but the safety valve has a stack of plate weights around 20lbs. The funny thing is these were built with such high quality parts that they just don't break down. I have salvaged a number of these and they never have anything actually wrong with them. I would bet a new one of these would outlast the new speakers they have now.
Man that BLOWER POWERS THE SIREN LOUD ASF
The choper: man why they make me not loud
The BLOWER: OH LORD I LOUD
the blower really help make it loud BLEW OUT MY HEADPHONE SPEAKER WOOO
You really can't tell how loud it is. The last one I sold I tried making a video that the horn would swing and aim at the camcorder. It was so loud that the camcorder would lockup. I couldn't even do it over 150' away and it was a good sony camcorder. You could play the file back and as soon at the horn was just about to aim at the camcorder it just ended!
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Man I’m glad my neighbor isn’t a siren enthusiast.
Gosh that was so loud it maxed out the mic completely. I can’t imagine how loud a thunderbolt is at ground level in person…must’ve caused a mini earthquake with how loud it was lmao
Now thats very awesome! Sure hope you got permission to sound that thing so you dont scare anyone.
1000T Siren not a 1000, a Thubderbolt 1000T is Double Tone, The Thunderbolt 1000 a single tone
Its a 1000t
Not Double Tone, Dual Tone.
Thunderbolt 1000AT hey
@@som3body749 you just HAD to say that huh?!
Well it's true, of course.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm attempting to make my own full scale Thunderbolt from scratch using PVC that will fully work. :)
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.....whatever sketchy drugs you're doing, I want them.
❤️👍🙏😎🙏
i don't see how you're gonna do that. but, good luck
That daycare(Or something) Must LOVE You now! 😃
Thunderbolt 1000T is my favorite siren
I bet your neighbors love you!!
Finally an alarm that will wake me up
Makes a great alarm clock for the deaf in your very own bedroom !
Your neighbors must love you lmao
SILENT HILL and tonight's current foggy weather brought me here.
Wouldn't this one be a 1000T? This is a great demo to see the internal workings of a Thunderbolt.
JetBlueCO_TV No, it's a 1000T because the chopper is dual tone.
Think it's the 1000t...
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@MattPlayzYT every thunderbolt has a blower 😁
What do your neighbors think of this lol! Great videos!
I think my old lady had a blower that she'd kick on when I didn't listen.
IT SOUNDS SUPER COOL
for sale? I might look into this siren
I think it sold, they wanted way too much for it tho..
Your neighbors must love you
1:18 FLAME!
Not sure where you seen the flame but nothing was burning, even though those are the original belts!
ItzSuper n
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Larry Dapprich okay
By chance, could you post the parts or plans you use to build the control box? I have a feeling that when I get a Thunderbolt in the near future, it will be lacking a control panel
There is really not much to it. A single pole contactor for the rotation motor and chopper and a 3 pole contactor for the blower. All have a 24vac coil so add a 24vac transformer and some switches. The chopper is actually a variable speed motor based on what voltage you supply to it which will make the tone higher or lower. The original panels have a lot more stuff in them then you need to just run it plus some crazy over sized contactors that could run something much larger.
Thanks. :)
Why don’t you use the rotator while it is going off?.
siren is all fun and games until the blower turns on
How did u get that
Be that's awesome oh and it's a 1000T
Not a 1000
That thing is a beast
wouldnt it be a 1000AT since its a 3-phase dual tone?
rip the other tbolts 2:40
Chango I want to have this for my house, how do I get it?
What is this machine
1:00-1:14 2T22 1:15-1:54 THUNDERBOLT 1000T😂😂😂❤❤❤
i wonder where this thing is today
It's actually a thunderbolt 1000t
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Wouldnt this one be a 3000T
but why near a playground, severe hearing damage could occur, right?
I didn’t know that’s what the rotator looked like
and is it still for sale just have to ask my dad and the city of Mountain Brook Alabama and the surrounding areas if its ok to have one or even use one or it also i just realized that i could just turn it on on the first Wednesday of every month
what happened to the AR timer or original controls
How can you still here
so what's the difference between the chopper and the blower🤷🏼♂️
You know it’s time to turn the volume down when the MOTOR is loud over your speakers.
Wow, incredible! I always wanted 1. How much are they?
Well right now only $6k.
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I think that costs exactly 112.16 pounds.
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@@bob4analog LOL. Did you seriously respond to his reply three YEARS later?!?
You should make it electronic!
By chance do you have any single phase blowers for sale?
Nice attack mode
if i can even wait that long
The thing is beautiful, but it's not $6,000 beautiful even with freight. You're going to need to drop the price pretty significantly if you want someone to buy it. After all, it is basically just a hunk of metal. But hey, it's up to you.
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Larry Dapprich Pretty fair starting bid, now it's up to the people. Good luck! :)
i have one but no blower blow by mouth it like a sreamer
Yes! Time To Alert!
I think this siren is near the infant's playground and the school.
I came back here to realize that this thunderbolt doesn’t have original motor contactors, transformers or agastats
But hey, it works, doesn’t it?
It wouldn't be too difficult to rewire this thing back to OEM.
Am so jeles how bib you builld a thunderbolt siren t1000
It's 1000T. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
No one can make a very big siren, only federal signal, American signal corporation, alerting communicators of America, etc can make sirens
Grow up and learn how to spell.
its a 1k t. (1000t)
Neighbors hate him
woah the first official not homemade belt drive air raid siren wait or maybe its the oscillating cone thats wither belt drive or chain drive a
1:13 well I have a tiny speaker I need a blower to bust out all the siren
Ah so THATS how it works
Where do you specificaly get these from. West Shore?
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Definitely not for the price he wants
cant you can guess it?
sounds like a dual tone..
It sounds like a thunderbolt 1000t
your smart good one
And this one is the blower…
*NNZZZWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW*
How did you get this ?
where did you get that
Cool
Wanted to hear the blower run without the chopper
That will hear kinda funny
Relief valve will blow off
i want it!
Get an Agastat so you can have the other mode
man u maned this thunderbolt wrong
thats 1000t not 1000
1000 is single tone 1000t and 1003t are dual tone
i saw this on ebay
im buying this but so much money
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You have a 1000T, not a 1000
FS thunderbolt 1000T
That is a 1000T
Thunderbolt 1000T
Wouldn't this be a COVID-19 siren!?
No. Also no one gives a shit
thats a 1000t
its a 1000T
It's too loud for the blower
its a 4\5 port chopper
no
No shit it's 5/6
Dang
That's a 1000T
Glad i Don't Live Nex To u
I sold a 2t22 a couple of years back that ended up in a very tight neighborhood in Florida. I can only imagine all his neighbors hate him! lol..
noah emmert I would be glad to live by a Thunderbolt owner!
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Sounds like a 1000t
Because it is
@@exofriend4895 I said that because of the title.
its a 1000t
its not a 1000 its an 1000AT
This is a thunderbolt 1000t not a 1000
1:20 so scary
So scary 😮😮😮😮
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Fucking $6,000 for this shit? Fuck this I'm going to west shore services
west shore services
im gonna get a thunderbolt with a tall ladder to climb up to the pole and get it and my friend max will help me because its heavy
You do realize these weigh several hundred pounds right? You can't just grab it of a pole you need a crain to pick it up I'm even going to have trouble getting mine from my county ema there scraping it
Finally got it up on ebay!! www.ebay.com/itm/Federal-Sign-Signal-Thunderbolt-1000-Air-raid-siren-/263100614630?hash=item3d4204c7e6:g:MUIAAOSwsMVZci~f
That is a thunderbolt 1000T not a 1000
Earrape.
THIS IS ILLEGAL!
Tell me how?
@jared thompson he cant set off a siren in the middle of the day unless he has permission from his city's civil defense office
@@stormboy4k Who says he doesn't?
@@stormboy4k it's his siren, he own the siren, Wat the shit was this huh bruh
It is at 1000T not a 1000