Eagle Sirens, Inc.
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| Names | Eagle Sirens, Incorporated
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| Headquarters | Lansing, MI |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Products | Electromechanical vehicular sirens |
| Website | eaglesirens.com
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Eagle Sirens, Incorporated (Also known as simply Eagle Sirens or Eagle Siren) is a Lansing, MI-based manufacturer of electromechanical vehicular sirens founded in 2000. While largely outshadowed by their competitors, Eagle Sirens still enjoys a relative amount of success in the market today.
History
Eagle Sirens, Incorporated was incorporated in 2000 in Lansing, MI, to produce a suitable electromechanical siren for the "new generation of police, fire, and EMS apparatus being constructed today.", as per their website, while also being durable and cost-effective and reducing noise levels for the operators in the cab of the vehicle. Eagle Sirens noted that the electromechanical sirens on the market at that time were extremely power consumptive, bulky, and poorly built, and designed their siren with these flaws in mind. The company's first siren, the Screaming Eagle, took around 18 months to develop and meet the company's vision, and the first units would be installed in 2002, dedicated to the first responders lost during the September 11th attacks. The siren would originally come with 2 mounting configurations, a pedestal mount and a recessed mount. A flange mount would also be introduced shortly after. In 2006, Eagle Sirens would introduce the Nesting Eagle for fire apparatus which lacked an extended bumper. Since then, both the Screaming Eagle and Nesting Eagle have become fairly popular, and several communities across the United States and Canada are known to use them.
Products
Screaming Eagle
The Screaming Eagle, also known as the Model C-9-11, is a directional electromechanical vehicular siren and is Eagle Sirens' flagship product. The siren consists of an 6" 8-port rotor and stator and is driven by a 12 V DC motor located behind the stator, encased in a bullet-shaped enclosure. A dome shaped projector in front of the stator with a grille inside of it protects the rotor from debris and potential injury from misuse of the siren. The grille also bears an Eagle emblem in the center. The Screaming Eagle comes standard with 2 electric brakes which allow the siren's rotor to quickly bring the rotor to a halt in 8-10 seconds when the siren needs to be silenced. The 2 main selling points of the Screaming Eagle, as advertised by Eagle Sirens, are the siren's low energy consumption, having a continuous amperage draw of only 38 A, and its size and weight, with the siren being 14" long, 9" wide, 7" tall, and having a total weight of 24 pounds.
This is opposed to other sirens which Eagle Sirens describe as "very large, very heavy, and require huge amounts of electrical power to produce the sound necessary to clear the way.", as per their website. The siren comes in a chrome finish. Several mounting options are available for the Screaming Eagle, such as a pedestal mount, which includes a short pedestal below the stator with a triangular base, the flange/flush mount, which lacks a motor cover and has mounting pads behind the stator for the vehicle's bumper to attach to, and the recessed mount, which is identical to the flange mount in all but the way it is mounted to the vehicle, with the projector on the flange mount sticking out of the bumper while the recessed mount does not. These options are referred to as the Model C-9-11-P, the Model C-9-11-F, and the Model C-9-11-R, respectively. The Screaming Eagle reaches 123 dB @ 10 ft, according to Eagle Sirens, though many have described them as relatively underwhelming. Nevertheless, the Screaming Eagle continues to enjoy a fair bit of success in the market.
Nesting Eagle
Advertised as an industry first, the Nesting Eagle, also known as the Model C-9-11-NE, is a variant of the Screaming Eagle which is primarily intended for vehicles without an extended bumper that require an electromechanical siren. The Nesting Eagle's core is identical to those of the Screaming Eagle, utilizing the same 8-port rotor and stator and 12 V DC motor, and lacks a motor housing, as the motor is enclosed within the bumper. The siren itself is not attached to the bumper, but rather makes use of a large projector attached to the siren, which is parallel to the bumper. The projector's opening is angled sideways from the direction of the siren and intersects with the front of the bumper, with the design causing the siren's sound to bounce off one side of the projector and propagate in front of the vehicle. A large metal screen, with the word "EAGLE" directly in the center, is bolted to the vehicle's bumper, protecting the siren from debris. The projector's opening is around 6" long and 6” wide, and overall, the unit is 16" long, 7" wide, and 7" tall. Like the Screaming Eagle, it reaches 123 @ 10 ft.