Aerodynic endlamps usage

Brian Farkas

What's the meaning (or difference) of the steady burning (forward facing blue/blue or blue/red) endlamps and wig-wag endlamps? Seen them used in both ways. I'm wondering how should i set my areo up.

JDH

Usually the front steady burn is red coupled with flashing ambers to the rear, and it is a California traffic law for emergency vehicles.

cmb56

If you have seen the AeroDynic with steady burning lights in TV series or movies, remember that it are not real police vehicles. Real police cars are rarely used but it has happend.
The AeroDynic was delivered without any flasher and if you do not care like movie people, they install it without any flasher.

Wakko

I like the look of the front and rear flashers, but that's me.

JDH

Let me rephrase, if you want a California compliant bar, look at this link �LAPD Questions?� on this site, same area. cmb56 is right, the arrowdynics never had a flasher in them, Federal suggested an external flasher. However you can add one.

Brian Farkas

Thanks for the replies. I recently got an all amber aerodynic 24EH. It was set up like this: http://web.t-online.hu/audiosim/pics/Aero_320.gif. It has a FA3 in it which flashes the endlamps (both front and rear).

Since then i've traded the ambers to usa blue domes (now i'd need an all red one) and i set the gears to 4-2-0 0-2-4 (is that correct?). I am still not sure how should i set the endlamps up. To be the honest i don't really like them flashing (to the front at least). In most of the movies i saw/see they are just steady burning. Sadly i have no ambers to the rear which could flash.

cmb56

No one can say what is right or not, because it is the user that decide. Federal delivered the AeroDynic without flasher and all end lamps connected as steady burning. It was up to every user to decide what every end lamp was being used for.
If you like them as steady burning, have them that way. You can have one steady burning and one flashing to the front. You can have them alternating or simultanious flashing. It is up to you. No one can say it is wrong. Only if you are trying to make a bar from a specific agency and do that wrong, people can say that.

Brian Farkas

I see. Thanks! I think i'm going to make the front facing ones steady burning and the rears flashing.

EVS1

I installed several Aerodynics new for a local department from 1982 through 1994 when they switched to Edge bars. They had colored lenses on the flashers and every one came with a 537 alternating flasher for the front and one for the rear. That bar was also available with clear lens on one or both of the front flashers to be used as takedowns. Those were steady burn from the factory.

NPS Ranger

At the time, it was a selling point in Fed Sig literature that the steady burning end lamps defined the width of the vehicle when viewed from the front when it was responding through traffic, while the synchronized rotators gave the flashing effect.

flahotrod

I can state from experience that the Aerodynics delivered to our police department came with flashers for the outer, fixed position, lights. The flash pattern alternated from left side to right side. This is how they came out of the Federal box.

le_cornouiller

[quote:04fb5de964=\"Brian Farkas\"]Thanks for the replies. I recently got an all amber aerodynic 24EH. It was set up like this: http://web.t-online.hu/audiosim/pics/Aero_320.gif. It has a FA3 in it which flashes the endlamps (both front and rear).

Posted: Thu 22-Feb-2007 05:35 Post subject:

The FA3 has 3 terminals (connectors) and each lamp has 2. One terminal (no matter which one) of each lamp has to be connected to the ground, the other one is to the FA3. To set up the FA3 you need to do the following: Put the positive (+12V) wire to the terminal marked with an X and lead a wire from to the free terminal of lamp1 from L (or L1) then lead another wire to the other lamp's free connector from the other L (or L2). That's all. The FA3 is grounded through the lamps. Make sure that there is a lamp connected to both L terminals of the FA3.

Posted: Thu 22-Feb-2007 06:06 Post subject:

Basically, You put the Flasher between the +12V wire from the battery and the +wires of the lamps, is that correct ?

Posted: Thu 22-Feb-2007 06:10 Post subject:

Yes. The flasher doesn't get a direct ground (and the lamps don't get direct +12V).

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