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Found this really weird NYPD ESU unit video from the bombing this weekend, crazy lighting set-up and what sounds like a PA300. Posted on youtube by The Majestirium.
you should look at toronto police vehicles.That's pretty sweet! I'm loving the combo of LED, strobe and rotator. Its odd to see such old tech on a newer looking truck, but it works!
It looks like this was a post 9-11 truck as it is a 2002. It used to be MALT (Mobile Auxilliary Light Truck) 4, and ESU 4 was a 2002 Mack. I assume the original 4 truck was due to be replaced and MALT 4 got moved over to 4 truck because it might not have been used as much. I'm just speculating. But I absolutely love the lighting. Especially the front grill.
It would look good if all of the halogen rotating stuff was replaced with the Vision SLR and single SLR pods where the rotators are on the bumper. I don't even know if they make single pod SLR stuff, but it would look good.
It sounds like an older PA300 with the slow rising wail tone (silver face or early black face version).Here's a great new video of what I think is the same unit. Definitely sounds like a FDNY PA300 too.
It's an early black face unit. The later versions have a faster rising wail tone.FDNY had a custom spec PA300, black face:
That said it sounds very similar to an older silver face PA300 I have.
It could be a pa300 msb or possibly a pa300 opt NYPD which was made for them.
There's been a lot of discussion about the NYPD spec PA300 on this thread: https://elightbars.org/forums/threads/old-nypd-electronic-sirens.27373/
Information about these things is pretty sparse, this very well might be PA300 that the NYPD was said to use in 1990, after the Mark VII and before the Smart Siren came on the 1991 Caprices. Apparently that model had peak and hold manual.
I’m not familiar with the MSB, what was that used for? I wish I could find a good clip of the NYPD model, I have no idea what those sounded like.
No, I think the Recorder (passenger officer) has the siren in yelp and using the PA override to manually activate it
I think that this is a clip demonstrating the manual yelp from the NYPD PA300's. Start at 1:09 for an awesome shot of a Caprice RMP leaving the 73PCT parking lot, and the actual manual tone starts at around 1:24. It looks like the driver is using the horn ring to activate the tone. You'll have to turn your speakers up - the audio on the clip is fairly low.
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Attached is a quick video showing all the tones on the NYPD PA300 I have. I have to wonder if the air horn sound is correct or if there is an issue with the siren. All the other tones seem appropriate. I have horn ring on a momentary button on my PCC8R instead of tying into the actual car horn.
When in manual mode siren on the paddle switch is a wail peak and hold tone. The horn ring does a momentary yelp peak and hold. The horn tone on the siren almost sounds like a peak and hold hi-lo pitch.