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Any thoughts on getting a siren from Hedgesville west Virginia to Wisconsin ?

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  1. Horkn

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    I think you'd be surprised. I'm 6'4" and 240 now, but I was 260 lbs when I rented one in 2011 for a couple weeks. We put 1800 miles on that regular Prius ( not the V or the C). There's tons of room in those things. I had the same conversation about not being able to fit into a Prius with a guy that was shorter and a little bit heavier than me. He had never been in one.
     
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    Prius are DC. You could run an inverter. Depending on the siren's needs though.;)
     
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    FHC is :sherlock:

    great offer Matthew :tip:
     
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    Wow. That's probably half the battle.
     
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    I just went off of this spec sheet. I assumed all of them were using a modified square wave of chopped dc. Just like a variable frequency drive on a 3 phase motor uses.
     
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    At 6'4 and 420 ya I'd be surprised. Usually I look like the monkey football thing getting in a car.
     
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    420??? Uh, yeah. Hard to say unless you try it though.;) But, I will say they certainly have a lot more room than most people think.
     
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    Maybe I'm at or under 400 now......maybe.
    Just an impulsive eater but still out working my thin helpers.
    Find out Tuesday at my azz chewing er I mean doctor's appointment.
     
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    What part of Wisconsin?

    Gary
     
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    Yeah, and before any of us met them at the gtg last year he told us he was a midget...ornery pup. :thumbs: :rofl: :lol:
     
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    I thought he was the guy in the Mini-Cooper! Crap, maybe I don't know him!
     
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    Mini cooper's? Aren't they the ones that come with a mower deck?
     
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    The guy selling the siren sure is a jerk. After a few messages and his responses i looked and he has NEVER sold anything so I'm going to pass. It's been listed 3 times already but no sale.
    So I'll just sit back and dream of owning a Chrysler air raid siren. eatonpcat the Chrysler would be a great siren for you if you ever decide you want a noise machine for yourself.
    Thanks all for your support of my crazy habits !!
     
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    eatonpcat on the left. (Other 2 are DexterDay and Pallet Pete) Brian-Kenis-Pete splitting.JPG
     
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    Thanks Dennis !! I'm much better at faces than trying to remember names that are further obscured by AKA's.
     
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    Fasternal hasn't answered my last enquiry. I got the autoresponder. I haven't called. They had stopped shipping because of Covid. I still need my tractor parts to come down from NJ. Fasternal is around $125.00 for my parts; was hoping to find someone making a trip and would like $125.00 to offset their fuel cost. So far I haven't. I hope Fasternal opens back up soon on their shipping.
     
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    There are different ways of going about it, but yeah the Prius motors are AC even though the batteries are DC...I guess there are a few DC motors out there in electric cars though ..
     
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