- Location
- Bowling Green, KY
This isn't anything major but I'm kind of stumped an so is the company of the product. When I called support the guy was "um ya um I'm sure we've had others with a this problem before uh, ya let me ask another support agent" deal. As you may know my X seconds as my POV emergency response for my volunteer fire department. I just put a new siren box in last week. Before I had a big one piece box that sat up on my dash an I had to get rid of the Stone Age thing. I now have a galls street thunder st110.
My issue is, my siren is seeming to "freeze". That's my guess, it's been in the single digets the last few nights an Tuesday morning around 3am I had to respond to two different calls. Ran out an obviously didn't have time to let the truck heat up, when I flipped it to wail it went about half way up the first tone rise an just stuck there. It sounded awful, flipped it to yelp an I've never heard that kind of sound before. Side note, when I installed it inside a heated garage it worked perfect, all tones. Well it haven't had a call since so today at the station I went to see if it was working right. The manual switch works fine, air horn buzzes great, but wail an yelp did nothing not a peep.
Tech support guy said my wires could be frozen or too cold. I thought the box itself was too cold, it's mounted under my front passengers seat. My only guess is the box is waaaay to cold locking it up, or my two ground wires aren't insulated enough. Two grounded are attached to a screw I drove into the body, this is located under the plastic kick panel on the drivers door. Any guesses? Is it the wires being too cold, the box too cold? I have no idea.
I apologize for writing a book but I wanted to explain everything since not everyone's familiar with siren boxes. Also tomorrow I'm going to check my connections that run from my siren box out the fire wall to my speaker on the winch plate.
-Aaron
My issue is, my siren is seeming to "freeze". That's my guess, it's been in the single digets the last few nights an Tuesday morning around 3am I had to respond to two different calls. Ran out an obviously didn't have time to let the truck heat up, when I flipped it to wail it went about half way up the first tone rise an just stuck there. It sounded awful, flipped it to yelp an I've never heard that kind of sound before. Side note, when I installed it inside a heated garage it worked perfect, all tones. Well it haven't had a call since so today at the station I went to see if it was working right. The manual switch works fine, air horn buzzes great, but wail an yelp did nothing not a peep.
Tech support guy said my wires could be frozen or too cold. I thought the box itself was too cold, it's mounted under my front passengers seat. My only guess is the box is waaaay to cold locking it up, or my two ground wires aren't insulated enough. Two grounded are attached to a screw I drove into the body, this is located under the plastic kick panel on the drivers door. Any guesses? Is it the wires being too cold, the box too cold? I have no idea.
I apologize for writing a book but I wanted to explain everything since not everyone's familiar with siren boxes. Also tomorrow I'm going to check my connections that run from my siren box out the fire wall to my speaker on the winch plate.
-Aaron
