A.C.A. Banshee 115 "Super Banshee" Special Siren Test | HI-LO | Johnson Creek, WI

Don't mind me, just a part of making siren enthusiast history! I'm very glad I got a shot of the lower damper flapping around, the 12-port side sure did pack a punch! After this, we got canceled and failed on, but the camaraderie and time together made it all worth while. Not much else to say that can't be found elsewhere, other than this was totally worth the 3-hour drive out here! Enjoy yall!
Siren: A.C.A. Banshee 115 (Super Banshee), 3-signal
Date Recorded: 8/9/2023
Location: Johnson Creek Fire Station
City/State/County: Johnson Creek, WI
Testing day/time: Normally 1st Wednesday's at 10:00AM
Cycle(s) tested: ~1:30 alternate steady
Additional enthusiast(s) present:
- Drew (Midwest Sirens)
- Mitchell (montecat33)
- Chris (SirenDude1003)
- Thomas (Guitars & Sirens)
- Devin
- Holly (TheSirenGeek)
Recording equipment:
- Nikon Coolpix B700 Point-&-Shoot (damper shot)
- Canon Powershot SX60 HS Point-&-Shoot (tight shot, main audio)
- 2X Sunpak Ultra 6000PG tripods
NOTE: I, Midwest Siren Productions shall NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE for any unauthorized use of the radio or siren audio UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. This is made purely for entertainment and educational purposes only and is in no way made to encourage any foul play.
Enjoy, and thanks for tuning in to MSP!
-Cheers

[@MonkeyFilmProductions]

*adds to siren community history playlist*

[@indymetrosirens5643]

Goes to your channel to view that playlist

[@rosejangmitv1315]

1:16 this hi-lo got me dying💀💀

[@NepsterWX]

YOU GUYS JUST MADE HISTORY HAPPEN!

[@CentralVirginiaEAS]

I assume this is the first ever 8/12 port siren to ever do Hi-Lo!!!!! This is absolutely history!!!

[@Fratt4008]

REAL GOOD VIDEO!! This is literal history. The Hi-Lo sounds a lot better than I thought it would besides the lower damper struggling.

[@oswald-the-lucky-rabbit]

ya it literally had a stroke

[@soulsweeper1630]

Just needs some wd40 and it’ll be fine

[@GamingWithJonny3612]

Holy crap. I can’t believe the solenoids actually work! That’s incredible!

[@capefeartrainsandsirens]

History has been made! Makes me wonder if the banshee near me can do hi-lo.

[@MidwestSirenProductions]

Well if it's a single-rotor Banshee then it can't do a hi-lo, but some with wider intakes to accommodate coding gear could pulse, though none (as far as we know) still use the signal...

[@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798]

cyclones can pulse

[@TheSirenManiacYT]

It does Hi-Lo! That’s epic! Great catch!

[@SouthSoundRailfan]

Wow! More siren enthusiast history has been made! Great video as always!

[@borkluchtalarm]

This is incredible!!! I have been looking for a SuperBanshee doing Hi-Lo for years, but I gave up. Now that I coincidentally came across this, I'm super happy! This siren test video is now one of my all time favorites! Thank you so much for making history, and making my day! 😃

[@wigwagstudios2474]

F I N A L L Y ! GREAT piece of siren history!!! 8/12 hi-lo sounds badass!

[@thewashateriawandererzayne4376]

Made history with this one! Awesome video!

[@goodolchris4173]

Incredible!! I could barely belive it! I had heard the beat up tape of the Superbanshee Pulse, and I was starting to wonder if the Superbanshee could even do hilo or if pulse was all it was capable of. Now lets find the rumored coded ACA Hurricane!

[@someengineermain6803]

​@@acash915no coded hurricanes were sent to south Africa

[@markatamironov4903]

It's on the evaton fire station 1394 easton rd in evaton south africa and it was the 1968 square horn version

[@someengineermain6803]

@@markatamironov4903 that's misinformation stop spreading misinformation

[@markatamironov4903]

@@someengineermain6803 No, it's not. There WAS a hurricane on the fire station but it was removed. The only existing picture of it is on an old newspaper which was found recently. The newspaper in question was title "ACA Hurricane makes a big noise in S. Africa".

[@someengineermain6803]

@@markatamironov4903 oh i saw the article but where did you get the fire station location from hm or are you just lying about the location.

[@thatsirenenthusiast]

YOOO HI LO ON A SUPERBANSHEE thanks so much for making this video ive always wanted to hear one do HI LO

[@exploringoklahoma817]

Amazing video literal history right here

[@CarLover310]

Awesome vid🎉 more siren history has been made

[@hmsirensandfirealarms]

Awesome video mate! 🔊😍

[@BlueThunderboltsiren]

I'm just now seeing this type of siren do Hi-Lo for the first time. I live under a rock long enough.

[@northdakotasirens1520]

EPIC! that hilo is crisp

[@warningsirensofpaandny1918]

Holy shit. nice catch

[@TheFireAlarmEnthusiast]

That’s so cool! Pure history! Now we need to hear one of these in Alternate Wail or Pulse!

[@juanfernandezb9301]

and pulse wail

[@TheFireAlarmEnthusiast]

@@juanfernandezb9301 yeah.

[@MJT777X]

1:30 sneak peak for: alt wail

[@warningsirensofmichio9660]

Awesome 👍

[@MrBigMac9647]

WHAT?! AMAZING! also the damper kinda glitches at times but i guess thats what happens when its unused for some time.

[@MidwestSirenProductions]

The “glitches” were caused by the shear vibrations the siren made. The flashers were not functioning at this time so the contacts were being manually triggered, but the vibrations caused them to occasionally unseat mid-cycle.

[@MrBigMac9647]

@@MidwestSirenProductions damn

[@oswald-the-lucky-rabbit]

wow first a rotating soundmaster 125 and rotating clm in attack now a banshee in hi lo!

[@nillyiest]

actually peak dude! historical w:

[@Sirensofgrimescounty]

WE MAKIN SIREN HISTORY WITH THIS ONE 💯💯🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@CallistoBetch]

RAHHHHHHHH🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@triclamite]

about time!!!

[@TCA-1400]

*adds to sirens playlist*

[@BlueThunderboltsiren]

I like your Intro by the way.

[@Levi99130]

Finally My favorite Coded siren do HILO

[@BeaverStateOWS]

They did it people, they did it. we NEED to hear an ambience of this! ik im 6 months late lol

[@Midwest_Sirens]

Not the relays closing from the vibration and forcing the damper in even when I didn't want it to 😭😭

[@CallistoBetch]

I still cannot believe this is 10 months ago, here are some moments 00:00 activation of Hilo 1:11 8 port having a crisis 1:30 wind down 1:38 dampers stop 2:06 dampers activate, we now discover that the dampers could go faster.

[@SirenRecordingsofIowa]

I'm out of words!

[@NebraskaSirenProduction]

Nice!! I wish someone would fix the pierce Nebraska ones lol

[@YaEh215]

hi from newzeland. we dont have tornado sirens here because we Rarely get tornados but there small ones. but what is the diffrence between the hi lo frequency and the non hi lo frequency?

[@Pougwencnasoni]

I thought this was april fools joke

[@Snowcube]

1:16 sowwy I'm shy 👉👈🥺

[@SirensOfTheMidSouth]

At least you tried! After all, this might be your first or second time doing HI-LO.

[@racer927]

Next on siren community milestones: a Klaxon CS-8 or similar siren sounding in pulse as that signal was originally intended for a GRAY fallout warning in the U.K.

[@a3denclaggett254]

It happened recently

[@dyvonnerobinson8637]

This is my first ever Aca siren doing hi lo

[@kansasclocksandsirens]

Holy sh-

[@MrMultiTasker]

I've seen it do Hi-Lo way before this on facebook

[@VonnaWasser]

Where?

[@BoltDaFloofy]

I didn't even know this siren was coded

[@mattmakesmachines]

It’s a shock to me that we have a recording of a superbanshee in hi-lo before we have a recording of a cyclone in pulse

[@liverymakerguy7206]

theres a few recordings of cyclones doing pulse

[@mattmakesmachines]

@@liverymakerguy7206 I mean like a good video of it up close

[@VonnaWasser]

Also can't forget the one from 1991

[@therailcat9790]

@@mattmakesmachinesthey did pulse at sirencon I think

[@mattmakesmachines]

@@therailcat9790 they didn’t It wasn’t coded

[@pLzza4150]

*WOAH!!!*

[@calumbrooknicolson]

This should be a tornado siren madness character.

[@MidwestSirenProductions]

No it should not lol

[@calumbrooknicolson]

I don’t care, and it’s up to broken solar panel.

[@the8bitgabe]

finally Super Banshee hi lo

[@VonnaWasser]

Now it's time to put these videos/eggs in one basket

[@StephanieGSM]

It would go off like every Wednesday and we lived nearby. Awful 😂

[@Supersonic_Sirens_TX]

HOLY

[@Fourtyfourha]

i never seen 8/12 do hilo andd thats my first time

[@UuuuHhhh-ek9su]

Aca banshee 115's owner:error Hilo error hilo

[@christophercarey3232]

Sounds more like a sped up British Escape signal.

[@user-lk6sp5bu9e]

Now we need a “10v2t 3s” I hope we hear one

[@nillyiest]

yes indeed

[@SylvesterTheSupernatural]

Iirc Montana has one

[@nillyiest]

@@SylvesterTheSupernatural is the dampening system working

[@bruh3120]

​​@@nillyiestIt doesn't

[@nillyiest]

@@bruh3120 damn

[@Sirensandlights865]

Cyclones, hurricanes, and p15s had the ability to do pulse or hi lo

[@TCA-1400]

1:16 the stroke starts

[@Chiavaccio]

👏👏👍

[@MJT777X]

❤🎉

[@GeorgiaSirenProductionsandOWS]

That damper was struggling to move a few times.

[@MidwestSirenProductions]

The solenoids are just fine, the problem lies in the relays in the control box. Drew had to trigger them manually, and the contacts were literally bouncing on and off due to the vibrations on the pole. If the controller were to be relocated to a separate pole or stronger relays used, that would likely fix the problem.

[@ihaveheadtrauma]

1:16 Lower Damper has a stroke

[@GriffinWasHere1]

Could you make a playlist of all the siren ambiences? I'm too lazy too look through all the videos.

[@MidwestSirenProductions]

Yeah sure! I can go through and put one together soon!

[@GriffinWasHere1]

@@MidwestSirenProductions Thank you very much! I love siren ambiences for some reason.

[@leviathan7627]

finally.

[@user-nx7fr3qp3v]

When does this Test?

[@promotenilsiri9409]

Around 1:16 It has a little glitch

[@seanjuth]

Lol that plc isn't liking life

[@doggo3354]

What’s a plc? I’m a dumbass

[@seanjuth]

@@doggo3354 programmable logic controller.

[@doggo3354]

@@seanjuth so essentially a programmable logic gate on this thing is having a stroke?

[@iatif1995]

Is your intro the Huxley 3t22?

[@MidwestSirenProductions]

No, actually It's the 2T22 in Newton, IA

[@T_S_M-F3N]

1:17 ACA Banshee shutter error

[@mclarensuniverse]

1:16 the dampers sound like there glitching… why is that

[@dyvonnerobinson8637]

I think the Hi lo signal is damaged

[@TheBoysTopSecretisOrganization]

P-50 Hi Lo be like...

[@GoofyGooby76]

it sounds like a bagpipe

[@MiddledIn]

1:19. Little hiccup

[@PNR_UmbreonYT]

damn first time hearing the hilo tone edit: the dampers is kinda needs some fixing

[@grovecitysirens_GCS]

Thoughs dampers dont realy move a whole lot But cool

[@SirensandThunderbolts1003]

It could be the springs pulling it back are weak and may need replacing if the Hi-Lo function is used.

[@grovecitysirens_GCS]

@@SirensandThunderbolts1003 i mean they don't move a great distance to close like 3t22 dampers that go like 90°s to close, these go maybe 40 or less

[@grovecitysirens_GCS]

​@@SirensandThunderbolts1003or it just is struggling to open because they opened fine before it got to speed

[@SirensandThunderbolts1003]

@grovecitysirens_GCS it opens almost full but sticks or something when it continues...

[@daeone1514]

This has the same rotor the p50 it sounds

[@MidwestSirenProductions]

No, this does not share any parts with the P-50. The rotors (or at least the 8-port side) was shared with the Banshee-110 (later 115). The P-50 uses the same rotor as the Cyclone-120/125.

[@luisatruita1794]

Songs about an the 3T22😐

[@AmaliaZinal]

2023

[@That_2_guy2T]

Bluetooth has disconnected

[@jaxThesirenandcountrylover]

A new first

[@armoturo5346]

average msp W

[@JordanZirkel]

when world war 3 is about to start

[@donyosxd]

History.