How a Type F Diaphone Fog Horn Works
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Harry Barry explains how his Type F Diaphone fog horn works. His fog horn is mounted on the shore of Lake Erie and is powered by a 1000 gallon air tank. The Type F and (two-toned) F2T horns were the standard for lighthouse fog horns for much of the 20th century.
Harry's horn is the only privately owned Type F that's in working condition that I'm aware of.
Yes that's it that's the sound. When I was about 6-10 years old and it was run by the coast guard. Just fantastic excellent job. I thought I would never hear that sound ever again. Thanks.
Grew up in the 60s with a diaphone fire horn just a few blocks from my house in Edgartown Mass. Used to regularly scare the heck out of me.
I have one of those myself! I sounded it alongside this horn in a different video
My 4 year old son loves listening to sirens and fog horns. He loves the ending of this video thankyou.
There's more noise makers in other videos on my channel as well! Thanks for stopping by!
Very much enjoyed this! Thanks for sharing!
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
I dunno, maybe it sounds better from a long distance over water? We had one a few miles away in Lake Superior back in the '50s/'60s that had such a deep mournful sound. I loved going to sleep with it.
Fun fact Harry Barry who owns this fog horn owns 2 functional Chrysler Air Raid Sirens.
fairly well described detail..
Incredible sounds
Would it be possible to drive the piston with some sort of powerful solenoid actuators, which are modulated by audio signals, and therefore turn it into a electro-pneumatic megaphone speaker with earth-shattering SPL?
I like Learning how Fog horns works
Stay tuned - I'm going to be posting more with this horn. I'm going to be going back in a few weeks. The small, Type B Diaphone in other videos is mine. Definitely more of that coming soon as well.
Most Gamewell Diaphones today are also used by Fire houses by Fire Departments in the Atlantic coast like Nj NY PA CT MA and VT and Rhode Island and basically its was used for Same Principle as regular would do . It would go off anytime for Fire call or Morning or Noon Test however Town set it up some Gamewell Diaphones usually go off for Tranditional days like for Veterans day on November 11th during Ceramonys or Memorial services or Curfew
Or some towns don't ever bother hearing the Gamewell Diaphones so sometimes the Fire Department would Silent the Horn or take out of service
That's correct! My horn was used for fire purposes, though I'm not sure where. So far I've been able to confirm the Two Rivers Lighthouse, Fourteen Foot Shoal, and Point Iroquois lighthouses had Type B. More had Type C. (Lorain, OH for example) The US government modified the C by separating the motor drive, creating the CC...the smallest horn to feature a grunt. Grand Traverse Lighthouse has a working CC.
Gamewell provided a lot for the lighthouse service...bell strikers and signal timers were the big ones.
That was awesome
If you know about the heritage horns in vancouver, BC, What if they were diaphones instead of horns?
On old lighthouses, were these sounded 24x7, or only when there was fog?
Only when there was fog or other obscured visibility
This reminds me of the sharks hockey goal horn gor some reason, I don’t know if it’s like the same
The Sharks horn is not quite like this, but I can hear the similarity. The Sharks horn is a Kahlenberg Triton S-120. Manufactured by a small company in Two Rivers, WI.
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So what are the Slots made out of? I'm guessing it plays an F' 4 octaves below middle c?
The internal cylinder is cast brass. In the Type B, the slots were cut with a sawblade to very exact measurements. I'm not sure how the larger horns were done but it could very well have been the same way.
Well that sounds just makes me overly excited in all my appendages.