Does anybody know how people play music through electronic sirens?

Emergency Warning Systems
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I have always wondered how people are able to hook their devices up to the controllers on electronic sirens and play music through them.

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I believe that it’s something to do with the tone generator and amplifiers, but I’m not exactly sure how they do it.

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Some Electronic siren controllers have a microphone input for public address purposes, I’m guessing you can use that as a makeshift input for a MP3 player of some kind? (with some adaptations of course)

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Some sirens are just speakers with boards driving them, so the people connect the music straight to the speaker.

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what is that smoke detector in your profile picture?

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An Ademco 623-12, it’s also probably the oldest device I have in my collection.

(I don’t even remember when I took that picture… lol)

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Thanks man. they are surprisingly common on the east coast.

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isnt ist illigal to play music through sirens

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Since the sirens are meant to be used by government officials. It would be illegal to tamper them or hack them.

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Yes, it would be illegal. I highly doubt that the people who do it care though (but they probably do know it’s illegal or they have permission to do what they’re doing)

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If they are owned by the county, yes it’s illegal. If someone privately owns a siren they can legally play music through them.