Airhorn tonal "issues"...UPDATE: What Speaker wou

EOppegaard · Post by **EOppegaard** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:39 pm

Alright, I have a Whelen Airhorn/PA mounted in a vehicle. Recently the airhorn likes to change its tone from the normal loud deep bass sound, to a high pitched horn...and other times an extremely low pitched sound. I cannot get the problem to re-occur when I am messing around diagnostically. Also, nothing at all seems to cause the problem such as legnth of drive time, voltage input, weather, temp, etc. The Cone on the speaker is tightened down, and no nothing is shoved in in/living in it.

Anyone have a reccomendation?

c17loadsmasher · Post by **c17loadsmasher** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:30 am

Speaker sounds like it's about to go Tango Uniform. It is also possible that there is a loose connection, but my guess would be siren speaker. I've had them make funny siren noises for a little while and then zzzzpppt! That's the end of them. Of course, they were all Gall's speakers, and now I have a CPI one and it's worked for nearly two years with no problems now.

EOppegaard · Post by **EOppegaard** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:28 am

HAHAHA...it is a gall's speaker

Guess saving a few bucks scrapes a few years of use off the item!

What do people reccomend for a replacement speaker?

Currently the speaker is mounted under/recessed under my bumper. However it's not mounted in a way that it is "Speaker size specific".

I also will probably be looking to pick this item up for used if I can...so any tips for that would help too!

Eric

Post by Pj » Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:32 am

We use quite a few of the Whelen 314 series speakers, and they seem to last forever. They come in cheap (Nylon), more (blackend metal) and expensive (silver finish) but all use the same driver.

EOppegaard · Post by **EOppegaard** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:37 am

I had been looking at this model however wondered if it is as loud as it's conic shaped friends...reccomendations?

x1sspic · Post by **x1sspic** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:53 am

stay the f**k away from Galls speakers. Total crap. I've been abusing the hell out of a Whelen SA314P speaker - and it takes it. Worth the money, by far. It's the loudest speaker I've used by far, don't worry about it's performance compared with cone shaped units.

KitN1MCC · Post by **KitN1MCC** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:08 pm

whelen amp whelen speaker. never have a problem.

c17loadsmasher · Post by **c17loadsmasher** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:21 pm

I've a whelen amp driving a CPI speaker... the 'under the bumper' type for an SUV in my Trailblazer...about bullet proof. Buddy of mine has an SA314 in his Avalanche with the vehicle-specific bracket and it seems just as loud. His was the plastic one. CPI makes most of the ambulance speakers as far as I've seen...

KitN1MCC · Post by **KitN1MCC** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 10:21 am

CPI and whelen both use the same brand drives

Airhorn tonal "issues"...UPDATE: What Speaker wou

Airhorn tonal "issues"...UPDATE: What Speaker wou

Alright...what's a good replacement speaker?