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Each Atlas CJ46 horn has 2 100 watt drivers. Wattage ranges from 800 to 3200 watts throughout the models. AR-1600 Electronic none none 1991–1994 Rotating 126 dB at 100 feet This was the replacement for the AL-6000R. It only has 4 horns rather than 8. These came with 16 100 watt drivers, 4 on each horn. Quadren Electronic none none 1992–1994
Public address system in an old high school. The simplest, smallest PA systems consist of a microphone, an amplifier, and one or more loudspeakers. PA systems of this type, often providing 50 to 200 watts of power, are often used in small venues such as school auditoriums, churches, and coffeehouse stages.
The reentrant (reflex) horn loudspeaker, or bullhorn, is a type of folded horn speaker used widely in public address systems. To reduce the size of the horn, the sound follows a zigzag path through exponentially expanding concentric ducts in the central projection (b, c), emerging from the outer horn (d). Invented in the 1940s.
An electric megaphone is a handheld public address system, an electronic device that amplifies the human voice like an acoustic megaphone, using electric power. It consists of a microphone to convert soundwaves into an electrical audio signal , an amplifier powered by a battery to increase the power of the audio signal, and a loudspeaker to ...
A horn-loaded speaker can have a sensitivity as high as 110 dB at 2.83 volts (1 watt at 8 ohms) at 1 meter. This is a hundredfold increase in output compared to a speaker rated at 90 dB sensitivity and is invaluable in applications where high sound levels are required or amplifier power is limited.
An NYPD LRAD on top of a police humvee An LRAD operator wearing hearing protection LRAD on a navy ship. A long-range acoustic device (LRAD), acoustic hailing device (AHD) or sound cannon is a specialized loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance.
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Federal Signal Model 5 in Ballston Spa, New York, U.S.. Sirens are sometimes integrated into a warning system that links sirens with other warning media, such as the radio and TV Emergency Alert System, NOAA Weather Radio, telephone alerting systems, Reverse 911, Cable Override, and wireless alerting systems in the United States and the National Public Alerting System, Alert Ready, in Canada.