ACA Allertronic RE-1600

[@ChicagoSirens]

Glad to see that they were saved by you!!!

[@SoutheastWarrenEAS]

That thing is absolutely beautiful!

[@ArxCyberwolfPC]

This is an AL-6000R, which is the model that came before the RE-1600. The AL-6000R has 8 throats while the RE-1600 only has 4

[@jjjjentges]

Sweet looking RE-1600. That thing rotates nice and smooth. Quiet too! Great Vid.

[@OTISelevatorman]

Why not make any more videos dude

[@PlatinumEagleStudios]

Can you make more videos? What happened to you? DO you still have this? If so, can you please make more videos? Can you do a test with Wail? I really want to hear this thing very badly

[@ColdWarCanada]

I'm still around but have been busy and slowed down the hobby. I no longer have this siren but still have around six sirens

[@DJ2226]

It looks like a deformed WPS 4008 with EOWS style drivers. My guess is that there's 8 200 watt amps like a 816 controller would have. I like it. Does it fully work?

[@Cemoman17]

Nice. It would be so epic if you did a walkaround of you whole siren collection. Do you own a mobil directo? I saw that sombody said that you did one time. Thanks.

[@twmax4137]

Looks like the speaker drivers used in the whelen 3016

[@keatonspence9306]

Now play the power of love on it

[@MrBigMac9647]

Sweet! I'm guessing this is an ex sarnia on unit

[@4J25]

Is there an official model number on this siren? Is it RE-1600. I've been thinking it's actually the 6000R.

[@SluffAdlin]

+4J25 These are original ACA Allertronic 6000s, from Sarnia installed in the mid 80s. I witnessed them being installed, have heard and seen them many many times. Saw them silenced in 1997, and removed in 2012. Even have the local news paper article of them being decommissioned from 1997. Unlike many of the Allertronic videos on youtube. My cousin who has sadly passed away used to have a video of them sounding on youtube. These Dual tone sirens were unique, slow windup and wind down at full volume with wonky timbre to them. Almost like a cross between a EOWS 612 and a Whelen l 3016.... I am not sure which sound card ACA used for these particular models and I was hoping the owner of this would get them working but it looks like he has abandoned the project. I have tried to join the airraidsiren board but for some reason I get denied.

[@ChicagoSirens]

+Sluff Adlin Was it your cousin who uploaded the audio of them being tested and another video of them whopping? I remember those videos from 2013 and they just suddenly disappeared.

[@SluffAdlin]

ChicagoSirens I believe so, he was obsessed with these things. Actually we both were lol. We did record them at his house on to cassette when we were younger, around 1991ish. They, or should I say one of them, were malfunctioning (wouldn't shut off) so a 3 minute test turned into a 30 minute one LOL. Last I remember, these had a "hard" wind up, they are dual toned, and they had a long wind down. Unlike our sirens in-place today (ATIHPSS32), the city didn't take very good care of the Allertronics, especially the cold war ended, which is one of the main reasons why our original B&N system was upgraded. That system failed an annual "fire drill" cold war exercise in 1985. I think the Allertronics were donated to Sarnia, but I'm not sure about that. I was hoping, still am hoping this guy would get this one up and running, would love to hear them again. The other ACA Allertronics on youtube don't sound anything like these, that was something both my cousin and I agreed upon. I will see if i can find that audio from the old videos, I think he still has his computer, he upload a video of all the pictures him and my Aunt took back in 1998 to another account.

[@4J25]

That would be absolutely amazing. This is by far my favorite type of warning siren and it would be awesome to hear more original audio from them. Too bad there's not many left.

[@ChicagoSirens]

+Sluff Adlin Me and your cousin talked when he posted the videos. Sorry for your loss. I hope you can re-upload those.

[@nolongerused0000]

Sarina?

[@ColdWarCanada]

Yes

[@mikeray7234]

Could I still obtain one of these from the city of sarnia? And how much would it be?

[@Cemoman17]

That's a lot of amplifiers! :D

[@SSPWXR]

Where was this installed? I heard that there was a same model Alertronic in Saskatchewan.

[@aether9747]

Sarnia Ontario

[@RaisedLetter]

Does the RE-1600 have a voice function?

[@tylersalisbury872]

The Bigmindcreator AKA Elliot Some Do.

[@condb19]

This one does.

[@Gibbyx67]

rotating siren by the aca

[@valrabellkeys9867]

@@SoonerStateSirens1 wtf?

[@ColdWarCanada]

Yes I did.

[@aether9747]

Did you get that from Sarnias old system?

[@ColdWarCanada]

Yes. The siren is now at the Lampton Museum

[@aether9747]

@@ColdWarCanada with the controller too? Because I recently read about these Canadian allertronics and it has me wondering about what they actually sounded like

[@gasmask612]

vary col looking siren congrats

[@PdxGxs]

Very nice. I've always wanted to get, at least one, siren but haven't exactly found where to start looking and who to ask. So.... Where does one find these babies or air raid type sirens? Thanks.

[@ColdWarCanada]

Which mine is!

[@PlatinumEagleStudios]

Do you still have this? If so, can you make a video of it doing the Wail tone?? I want to hear this thing so badly

[@asherhayden4061]

Oh so now you have on allertronic

[@CentralTexasSirens]

I’m your 100th 👍

[@tylersalisbury872]

Does this siren have dual tone mode on the controller?

[@UberLukario]

I could just imagine someone rigging a microphone to the siren, put it on the base, and having it record the squeaking of the rotator and play it through the speakers.

[@HystoricalMicrobe]

Did you get this from Sarnia?

[@lonelykillerwolf6110]

Dang look at all them speaker drivers

[@Siren1000T1]

Congrats on owning a RE-1600.

[@Benicio_Fols]

It’s spiiny

[@ScarOne314]

Wow.

[@Cemoman17]

Find out what your city that your living in does with their old ones when they take them down. Maybe a siren graveyard or if they're not active, ask.

[@joebobbeh7986]

How big are these

[@ColdWarCanada]

6' tall, couple hundred pounds

[@marcodandrea4086]

you could connect this to an am and play music if you wanted to!

[@mangodkg]

Yeah, If I had an ACA Alertronic, I would play, "One Must Fall 2097-Power Plant", and EVERYONE WILL have a Blast!

[@Vyclops]

looks like a whelen

[@Tyler-qv2jv]

Exactly the whelen 3016

[@Fifthcell]

+I Like Cars Whelen copied the Alertronic's design, these were made before the 3000 series.

[@joebobbeh7986]

These came way before Whalen 4003, 4004, 4008, and 3016 Whalen probably copied the designs of aca.

[@joebobbeh7986]

*whelen

[@crvenizecable]

Wow thats sick like wow bro I can make a video on a DIY siren

[@leemilica]

TOO MANY DRIVERS!

[@Vyclops]

ikr

[@theconsoleinthecloset]

play people playground on it.

[@pidgeydoodles7549]

looks like a whelen vortex ripoff.

[@samschannel531]

windowsnerd I think these actually came before the rotating Whelens.