ACA Allertor 10/12 New Hampton Iowa
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Here is my video of an ACA Allertor 10/12 and this was my first Iowa recording. This siren located in New Hampton Iowa at the community center next the Kwik Star gas station. This siren does three minutes of attack.
Sounds a bit like a Thunderbolt. I like. I believe this is the first video of one online to run attack. Nice catch.
Nope, westy1962 did one a couple years ago of one in alert and Attack.
same port ratio thats why
These use the chopper from the Mobil Directo since that is the design these Allertors were based on. The chopper in the 500SHTT is bigger by about 2 inches in diameter.
Tempest, the 4 port was never made.
*Mobil directo intensifies*
Very early model Allertor 125 . Had the same port ratio as the all steel construction Mobil Directo it replaced in the late 1960's .
That's a creepy sounding recording. I like it!
Yes but it sound like a mobil directo
Yes, sounds like a mobil directo.
No, It's not creepy.
Sounds underpowered, mean, and creepy. Love 10/12 Allertors
10/12+ amazing echo = Great video
10/12 port sirens are my favorites
Same
@@mr.stalin4070 Same here too.
Wow, that is an INCREDIBLE echo! =D
This is my most favorite siren
i wish they did thunderbolt 10/12 port, but with the same motor as the 10/12 alertor
If that where the case, the thunderbolt wouldn't need a blower, if it used the exact same motor as the allertor, it wouldn't need the blower because it could reach because of the large motor and chopper
5/6 same as 10/12 Port
@@iowansirenrecordings2454 but what if it had one anyway
Nice! Never heard an Allertor like this, it sounds almost just like a carter/cs8 😊
wow this is one of the rare short-horned allerters
Lee U my town has a lot of short horned allertors
Welp, here's some iowa pride, a very rare allertor.
theres another 10/12 allertor in cedar falls and a 8/12 one in cresco
This siren was probably made back in the 60s when Aca started before the 9/12 port chopper they had the 10/12 8 port and 8/12 port it was also the last years for the b&m mobil directo which was made back in the 30s
The B&N Mobil Directo wasn't produced until the early 1940s.
It’s doing attack
This one looks like it's been through a lot. It also sounds a little under powered. It still sounds cool, though.
I used to live there and when I did that siren was still there I don't know if it does now or not. Hi New Hampton Iowa and Stephanie. and the rest of Chickasaw county.
it was replaced in october 2023 however it wasnt scrapped because someone is trying to get it working since its chopper cap also broke
Same siren was installed on the roof of my school in the sixties in case of russian nuclear attack (Montréal, Canada). Imagine how we feel the day of siren test (once a year)...
That likely would've been a B&N Mobil Directo, not an Allertor. Directos were commonly used in the 1960s in Canada, Allertors were never installed anywhere in Canada afaik.
I wish ACA would have just kept 10/12 port instead of 9/12 for their sirens. 9/12 sounds so ugly and raspy compared to the beautiful 10/12.
Same ports as a Mobil Directo.
8/8 and 10/12 ports
Sheyla Diniz no the 8 was just one stator so it is 8/0
Yea,but the chopper on the Mobil directo is faster
Pfft
3 colors and all on the same siren. What all has this poor thing been through?!
Damn at the echo.
Best Echoes I have ever heard in person
Aaron Nepstad You can say that again. Best echoes I've ever heard come from a 10/12 Allertor!
Omg these are rare.
Edaan Friedman and it's in iowa, can't forget that
1942. That's how rare it is.
i know one in Galesburg Illinois
@@mr.stalin4070 this siren wasnt produced until 1968 dawg
10/12 port allertor sound like a mobil directo
This sounds like a mix of a thunderbolt 1000 and a federal signal 2001.
this is 10/12 not 5/12 lol
This siren sounds like a 10/12 Mobil Directo
DylBeen the Plotagonist and randomee 240 do you not know what a title is? 10/12 port siren. This allertor’s 10/12. Mobil Directos are 10/12
Because it shares the same port.
What siren do I hear in the back?
2 federal signal sth-10s
Very rare
It sounds healthy!!
Sounds like that huge Minecraft one that's reviewed on CZcams. It sounds just like that
hope its not true it was replaced :(
+amtrak3501 I called today and was told that the siren is definitely still there.
If they said the siren is still there they might mean there is a siren there but it is a new one. :(
No that doesn't match with what crazywarriorman meant. He said that THE siren he was talking about is still there. if the aca allertor isn't there. the people that he called would have said well there is A siren there but Im not sure whether it is the one you are talking about
Nope, I saw it over the summer. Still there
^.^
THAT thing is creepy.
It sounds like a Mobil directo!
This is the siren you hear in Blazing Angel's and Call of Duty Cold War: warzone rebirth
this looks like an old steel one
ACA Allertor with Thunderbolt 1000T Sound
I thought this was a Mobil Directo because of the sound similarities
BOINKO sadly it's not bro.
Derrick Palmer But then I recently found out about ports.
it sounds like a Thunderbolt siren
That sounds more like a B&N Mobile Directo Siren and looks like one too because the horn on the bottom looks more shorter
Dang, looks like color impregnating didn't last on earlier Allertors.
This siren should sound like a P50
No one Noticed but was it Rotating Clockwise instead of Counter Clockwise?
+I Like Cars yeah I think it may have been the extension on the siren between the motor box and rotating plate, the gears may have been installed differently and is going the opposing direction.
It looks like the extension is there otherwise the horn would scrape along the mounting poles
No! Ignore that comment, I was extremely wrong.
I do see that is rotating Clock-wise, and the siren to me doesn't sound reverse wired.
Wow, so the Early allertors did just rotate a different way to the Later Allertors.
the 10/12 port 4-vane chopper used in early ACA Allertors was bi directional, because the unidirectional chopper was an ACA invention, and the 10/12 port chopper was older than ACA itself, and was simply strung along from the days of the mobil directo. I am not sure why they didn't remake it as unidirectional, but I have some theories:
theory #1) the 10/12 port 4-vane chopper, being strung along from the b&n days, was like "low hanging fruit", in the sense that the design was already existant, the molds for casting the chopper already existed, and most importantly, it was simple to produce, yet quite effective, so the financial risks of redesigning the 10/12 chopper outweighed the possible perks of doing so.
theory #2) the geometry and angle measurements between the ports of the 10/12 port 4-vane chopper isn't conducive towards a unidirectional design, so they just strung along the old mobil directo chopper and used it.
theory #3) all of the above
this sounds like a low pitched Mobil directo
Becuase allertors are basically mobil directos
But upgraded
LSXR1200 Because it kind of is the same thing on wiki it says this,The ACA Allertor was originally designed in the early 1940s as the B&N (Biersach & Niedermeyer Co.) Mobil Directo and was used for air raid warnings during World War II. The Mobil Directo was made of metal. It came in 4 different port ratios. 8, 8/12, 9/12, and 10/12, with 9/12 being the most common. The siren could reach up to 125db, hence the name "ACA Allertor 125". The single tone 8, dual tone 9/12 and dual tone 10/12 rotors were derived from Federal Signal Corporation. In 1968, during the height of the Cold War, B&N changed their name to ACA (Allerting Communicators of America) and changed the Mobil Directo's name to the Allertor. Many aspects of the siren's design were changed, such as the Mobil Directo having an exposed motor and a belt-driven rotator, and the Allertor having a covered motor and a chain-driven rotator
@@Ry_Smok3s b&n vs ACA?
That is creepy!
different port I see
Why, why, wh *siren rotates towards me* ow
Is it me Winding up the Allertor or the 10/12-port siren possessed by God?
I would've Wound up the 5t22 Possessed by God.
Just repling to myself!
+JUSTIN “JUSTINtheTRAIN” O.K. noob
7367Network CZcams Call me boob I like it.
JUSTIN O.K. how bout no
Sounds like 2T22 and Thunderbolt.
Pfft
How come this siren looks like the Mobil Directo siren??
***** And Mobil Directo was the early version.
It looks like the mobil directo siren because the ACA allertor was made from the exact same company as the name changed to B&N to ACA to ASC
The older allertors were practically the same as the mobil directo, only it used a different shroud material, different motor. The newer allertors are where there were changes to the shroud and the motor.
Now this is an old allertor,has the short cone,I think
u mean intake?
Congratulations, you found a comment of mine from 3 years ago! I had no idea what I was saying 🙄
@@alexmcface sorry about that
This siren should sound like a P-50
Why are some bottom horns smaller or bigger than others?
It not replaced
What's with the shape of the horn? Is one for using a prerecorded voice to say it's a test and the other makes the signal? Or is it for louder volume?
First of all, these are mechanical sirens, involving a chopper or rotor inside a slotted stator, creating the sound. the bottom horn is the air intake for the chopper, and the air comes out the sides of the stator, and then out the top horn.
+Patrick Murphy The bottom horn I suspect is the air intake and the top one is where the sound comes out of or vice versa depending on which way the chopper spins, the sound may come out of both but the bottom one is the intake!
Though that was clever thinking! Maybe one day they will make a siren with speakers and a chopper!
+hyvää-elämää-98 Yes
The odd shape of the B&N Mobil Directo / ACA Allertor was a very inovative idea in siren technology for the time . Sound projection was at top level until Federal Electric Corporation of Chicago , Ill . Introduced the Thunderbolt series in 1952 . The Allertor was an electro mechanical siren only so no voice technology was around at this time .
+Patrick Rogers are you sure they didn't introduce the thunderbolt in 1951
Higher pitched and rotating klaxon CS8
hmm... sounds like this Allertor has the chopper of a Mobile Directo.
SlayerGaming_TV It doesn't actually. While it's still 10/12, the chopper is arranged differently.
Mr.Someone \Tom/ no, it’s the same chopper, just in a different siren.
hyvää-elämää-98 I am pretty sure Allertors had their 12 ports at the front and the Direcos had their 10 ports at the front.
I don't think so... I'm pretty sure the 10 port row is in the front for both of them. this video seems to accurately represent the sound of the air going through it, having seen a 10/12 allertor in person...
there used to be a either an allertor or mobil directo (more likely mobil directo, because I remember noticing the differences between the backs of "different ones of its kind", even when I was little, and it didn't quite look like the one in Currie Park, which I now know is an allertor, so process of elimination makes it a Mobil Directo) behind the fire station on Silver Spring drive in Menomonee Falls, WI, but it was replaced at least 10 years ago with an RM-130. I don't quite remember the exact sound, but it was dual tone, (it sounded "different" from the RM-130's that were also in town).
"Little me" thought it was the creepiest sound in all existence, and that if "the end of the world" had a sound, that would be it.
hyvää-elämää-98 Mm yes but the two sirens do sound different. The Allertor 10/12 has a lot more howl to it and the Mobil Directo has a lot more sharpness to it.
The 10/12 port Allertors are not that common.
This is before the rotator died!
This siren sounds like a thunderbolt
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Yeah whoo
Sounds like a single phase 2t22.
Sounds like a federal signal 500
AT? A 500 is single tone
Carsen Culpitt
No you are getting confused (while you are completely right) The guy i responded to said that this Allertor sounded like a 500 and I responded (not in the clearest way XD) 500's are single tone and this video shows a dualtone siren
+Carsen Culpitt A 500T is a 500AT. 500T shows it is a dual tone and 500AT shows it is dual tone and three phase. 500T and 500AT are the names for the 9/12 500s and the 10/12 500s were called 500SH-TT
Mr.Someone \Tom/ so then it sounds like a 500-SH-TT...
Yes.
when do they test?
It sounds like a thunderbolt
Is it stil there
This is actually a Mobil Directo
A mobil Directo has an open motor while the Allertor is a closed motor like this. So no it's not a Mobil Directo
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren Oh.
Sounds like a Thunderbolt 1003
Whoo
sth-10's in the background
the last time I saw one of these on active duty was in parkston South Dakota 9 years ago
What kind of siren is it
Brian Hill allertor 125
Brian Hill ACA Allertor 125 (Pre 1972)
This one needs replacing
Is it white?
It used to be yellow, but the paint has faded over the years, which makes it a lot more pale. This thing is old, from the early 1970's.
+Thunderbolt1000Tfan Ah Now I know the paint has faded out, due to the many years of sun exposure.
Yeah, could use a new paint job. Also, I believe this is more 1960s
It sounds like a 3T22
I hear another siren in the background.
That is it's echo
Marlon Vasquez no he is right you can hear some other siren(s) at 2:08
It sounds like a 2T22 siren.
Same chopper
*t-bolt 1000t intensifies*
it sounds like a mobil directo
Sounds like a 2t22
This sounds like a thunder bolt lol
Woah looks like this one has been through quite a lot.
All 10/12-port Allertors look like this. They are very rare, but we are finding more and more of them all the time.
Jack Wood I know, but I guess I'm trying to point at specifically is referring to the interestingly-faded fiberglass shell and what appears to be rusting metal(?) on the yellow back of the horn.
All 10/12-port Allertors that I've seen are that color.
Is this siren still there?
+TheGameShack people wouldn't know quality even if it bit them in the ass, an Allertor faced the same fate in the town I live in except it was a 2001 :(
+TheGameShack #1: they don't realize that having the siren restored will save them a ton of money #2: they don't know the difference between "need & want".
+Tyler Davis They do, however, know the difference between "Battery backup" and "Power failure."
HOWEVER.
I'll say that if they were smart enough they could've restored it and put it up elsewhere.
+4J25 naw that battery backup is overrated.
+TheGameShack I'm sorry, but where did you hear that from?
Has been replaced.
With a rotating 12 port flower pot
That’s a single tone aca alertor!!!!!!!!
Sound like 500at fire dept
Port 10/12
oh cool that ways can
Poor alertor it needs new paint and it's underpowered ))):
New paint, yes. Underpowered, no.
I think it is single phase though!
That's a meen echo
Wow
Whoo
Sounds like a clm.
Whoo
Sond leak a P10 (sarcasm)
oh crash
Aww shoot!
sounds like a fuking thunderb bolt when it vwinds down & starts up asgain
The swear-word doesn't quite go in very well with what you said
lol
That sounds nothing like an ACA Allertor, and I mean NOTHING.
No duh, it's 10/12 port
+Marlon Vasquez Also, I don't know what a 10/12 port even is.
+Benjamin Allen are you new to air raid sirens or what?
And how about you chill tf out, you Don't have to use profanic words,
+Marlon Vasquez Well, kind of...
its white !
It's not white, the paint has faded out, due to the many years of sun exposure
+Marlon Vasquez I can see that, because on the top, I can see some yellow. That tells me that it used to be yellow.