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[Name]: Mobil Directo (Gas Powered)
[Type]: Gas-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 25
[Port Ratios]: 8
[Years of Production]: 1942–1952
[Sound Output and Type]: Rotating 125 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: The first version of the Mobil Directo which used a 25HP Wisconsin air-cooled engine.
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[Name]: Mobil Directo
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 10
[Port Ratios]: 10/12
[Years of Production]: 1952–1964
[Sound Output and Type]: Rotating 124 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: The second version of the Mobil Directo which used a 10HP electric motor.
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[Name]: Allertor 125
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 10 (some 15)
[Port Ratios]: 8, 8/12, 9/12, 10/12
[Years of Production]: 1967–1984
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 125 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Design changed at least three times throughout production. The most common port ratio is 9/12. The Allertor 125 can produce 2 tones. Alert and Attack (Wail). A third signal was also available, Yelp, which required a special type of motor and used a reversing magnetic starter.
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[Name]: Cyclone 120
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 40
[Port Ratios]: 8/12
[Years of Production]: 1967–1981
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 120 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Produces 120 dB at 100 feet. Produces the 3 following tones: Alert, Attack (Wail) and Pulse (Coded damper needed for pulse signal).
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[Name]: Cyclone 125
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 50
[Port Ratios]: 8/12
[Years of Production]: 1981–1992
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 125 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Produces 125 dB at 100 feet. Produces the following 3 tones: Alert, Attack (Wail) and Pulse (Coded damper needed for pulse signal).
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[Name]: Howler
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 10
[Port Ratios]: 9/12
[Years of Production]: 1972–1981
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 123 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: The Howler is a rotational version of the Screamer S-10 (very rare).
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[Name]: Hurricane 130
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical (horn and blower)
[Motor HP]: 2 (chopper) 25/30 (blower)
[Port Ratios]: 8/10, 10/10, 10/12
[Years of Production]: 1967-1973 (square horn) 1973-1981 (round horn)
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 130 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Started off using a 25HP blower with a square horn, redesigned to 30 HP with round horn. Most common port ratio is 8/10. This siren is similar to Federal Signal's Thunderbolt series.
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[Name]: Screamers
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 2, 5, 7.5, 10
[Port Ratios]: 8, 9, 9/12
[Years of Production]: 1967–1990
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 105–115 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Series of small vertical sirens, comparable to Federal Signal Corporation's Vertical sirens from the 1930s.
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[Name]: Sentry 95
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 1
[Port Ratios]: 5/6
[Years of Production]: 1967–1970s
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 95 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Very uncommon siren. Dual tone circular port siren. 95 dB at 100 ft.
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[Name]: Super Banshee
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 25
[Port Ratios]: 8/12
[Years of Production]: 1967–1982
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 119 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: The Super Banshee can produce a Hi-Lo signal with dampers and the other standard tones like Alert and Attack.
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[Name]: Banshee
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 10 (Banshee 110), 15 (Banshee 115).
[Port Ratios]: 8 and 9/12 and supposedly 10/12 (for the 110).
[Years of Production]: 1967–1973 (Banshee 110) 1973–1994 (Banshee 115)
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 110–115 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: There are two models of the common Banshees, the Banshee 110 (9/12 only) which can do pulse unlike the 115, and the Banshee 115 which comes in 8 and 9/12 port ratios and only does standard signals (Attack and Alert).
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[Name]: Penetrators
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 10, 15, 50
[Port Ratios]: 8, 9/12 (P-10 and 15) 8/12 (P-50)
[Years of Production]: 1982–1990 (Later continued as the RM series)
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 124–135 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: 10 and 15 HP models nearly the same, aside from motor used. The P-50 was and still is the loudest dual tone siren in the world. The P-15 (Single-tone) and P-50 was still being produced by ASC until 2002 and 2007.
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[Name]: Alertronic AL-1000–8000
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 1983–2007
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional dB rating depends on how many drivers.
[Notes]: First mass-produced, non-rotating electronic design by ACA.
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[Name]: Alertronic 5000
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 1983–1984
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 125 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Very short lived siren, replaced by the AL-6000R. Currently no videos known to exist and only a couple of photos of this model of siren.
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[Name]: Alertronic RE-1600
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 1991–1995
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating dB rating depends on how many drivers.
[Notes]: Was made alongside the later years of the AL-6000R.
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[Name]: Alertronic AL-6000R
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 1984–1995
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating dB rating depends on how many drivers.
[Notes]: Replacement for the 5000.
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[Name]: Quadren
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 1992–1995
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional dB rating depends on how many drivers.
[Notes]: One of the last electronic sirens made by ACA before their bankruptcy. Design was later bought by ASC, and later became the iForce.
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[Name]: Performance Plus Series
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 7.5, 10
[Port Ratios]: 8 and 9
[Years of Production]: 1989–1993
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating/Omni Directional 115–125 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Rotational versions are the PP-15 and PPN20. There is only one Omni Directional Performance Plus which is the PP Banshee 115 (Single Tone). All three models use an AC battery back up on a DC motor.
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[Name]: PN20
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 20
[Port Ratios]: 9
[Years of Production]: 1992–1995
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 127 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: ACA's last known rotating siren. More commonly known as the RM-130.
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[Name]: OM-117
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 15
[Port Ratios]: 8
[Years of Production]: 1994–2004
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 117 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Rebranded version of ACA's Banshee siren, only in the 15 HP version.
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[Name]: OM-120
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 20
[Port Ratios]: 8
[Years of Production]: 1998–2004
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 120 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Similar to the earlier ACA Banshee, but used a 9 port chopper and stator with slightly different housing and also came with battery back up.
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[Name]: RM-127
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 15
[Port Ratios]: 8
[Years of Production]: 1995–2002
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 127 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: The same as the single tone Penetrator-15.
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[Name]: RM-130
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 20
[Port Ratios]: 8
[Years of Production]: 1995–2002
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 127 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: The same as the earlier PN20.
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[Name]: C-125 AC
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 50
[Port Ratios]: 8/12
[Years of Production]: 1995–2006
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional 125 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: The same as the Cyclone 125.
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[Name]: AL Series
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 1995–Present
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional dB rating depends on how many drivers.
[Notes]: Similar to the Alertronic 4000, but now in different sizes. (AL Line is not shown on ASC's webpage)
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[Name]: AL-4000R
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 1995
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 124 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: A modernized version of the ACA AL-6000R and RE-1600.
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[Name]: Tempest (Rotating)
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: Comes in 7.5, 20, and 50 HP
[Port Ratios]: 8 (8/12 for T-135 AC)
[Years of Production]: 1998–Present
[Sound Output Type]: Rotating 128–135 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Three sirens in this line up: T-128, T-135 AC, and T-135 AC/DCThe T-135 AC was known as ACA P-50, the name was changed after ACA's bankruptcy. The T-135 AC/DC is a siren that is bigger and more powerful than the T-128 and has a similar design and also has a battery backup system. This was introduced around 2007, replacing the T-135 AC.
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[Name]: Tempest (Omni Directional)
[Type]: Electro-Mechanical
[Motor HP]: 7.5
[Port Ratios]: 8
[Years of Production]: 1998–Present
[Sound Output Type]: Omni-Directional 112–121 dB at 100 ft.
[Notes]: Two sirens in this line up: T-112 and the T-121The T-121 is an 8 port siren that has a similar design to Federal Signal's Eclipse 8. The T-112 is a hornless version of the T-121.
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[Name]: Quadren
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 1995–1998
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional dB rating depends on how many drivers.
[Notes]: Renamed the iForce after being redesigned in the early 2000s.
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[Name]: iForce
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 2002–Present
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional dB rating depends on how many drivers.
[Notes]: The iForce is an electronic siren made by ASC that comes in many different sizes (Sound Cells) and only comes in single tone. Similar to Federal Signal's Modulator.
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[Name]: E-Class
[Type]: Electronic
[Motor HP]: none
[Port Ratios]: none
[Years of Production]: 2002–Present
[Sound Output Type]: Omni Directional dB rating depends on how many drivers.
[Notes]: Speakers can be arranged in whichever pattern is needed. Very similar to ATI's omni-directional sirens.
(American Signal Corporation sirens)
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