Thunderbolt 1000T Siren Test Tinley Park, IL

This thunderbolt is located at 175th and Odell in Tinley Park. the attack mode is still screwed up on it, reminds me of some of the thunderbolts with the screwy attack modes in Hamilton county (Cincinnati). In the backround at some points in the video, the Memorial elementary thunderbolt can be heard.

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• messed
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• atttack
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[LouisvilleTorn8o]

Sounds like a funky wiring job on that Attack signal...The blower turns off and on instead of the chopper...Should be pretty easy to fix.

[amtrak3501]

@LouisvilleTorn8o weird how the rotation as well turns on and off. could the blower get damaged by turning on and off that many times?

[amtrak3501]

also i should point out that this is the only thunderbolt TP has that rotates at 4 rpm

[timeslip325]

lmao, that is too funny!

[amtrak3501]

@timeslip325 yes it is, hell of an attack signal, well whatever TP may call it

[mohkfry]

Nice video. The attack mode will never be fixed, most likely. (Like the Elkhart Thunderbolt's compressor)

[amtrak3501]

@mohkfry well you guessed right. the 1000 still has no belts, but the compressor motor was buzzing so it still works. i hear Ron is no longer working at the museum

[guinness138]

They need to put some kind of bracing up, too. It wobbles a lot just on the standpipe.

[murrfarms]

@LouisvilleTorn8o It's still not good to jog a motor that much, regardless if it's single or three phase. It causes excess heat from continuously trying to start that heavy load repeatedly, which is what kills motors more than anything else.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@amtrak3501 I doubt it would hurt the blower too much if it's 3 phase, but if it's single phase, it could overheat from all the restarts due to the capacitors engaging so many times.

The rotator and blower stop at the same time because they're both wired to the same agastat time delay, which is wired to the RCM, and the agastat and RCM would be the first places I would check for funky wiring.

[CoolBalla15]

Btw, I think I can hear the Mental Health Center Thunderbolt 1003 in the background.