Thread: Lets see pictures of custom lights/lightbars

Heres my Custom built excalibur.
When I bought it, it had 2 red rotators on the ends, alleys and 2 dual D&R electronics brite lites to the front and 2 to the rear.


I removed the red front LEDs, added 2 single talons, I had bags upon bags of new lower level excalibur/360/sabre/interceptor lower level lights, so I added 4 rear work lights, 4 takedowns, modified 4 to house strobe tubes, 2 to the front, 2 to the rear. I tied them into my ricochet which powered 2 in my reverse lights. I also added intersection strobes from an interceptor bar. I left the rear red LEDs in the bar. the bar also came with a sweet console that actually snuggly fit my original switchbox, the console came with a D&R 3 button box aswell as a panel with 3 lighter outlets, one which I wire to my AUX1 switch.

I didnt do that nice of a job hiding the cables and wires in my truck, since I found nasty floor cancer in it, so Im unsure If Ill keep and restore the truck or toss it after plow season. Its a 2003 I paid $700 for...

Thats a nice lookin bar

What's that song playing in the truck?

Originally Posted by ffjwhite

What's that song playing in the truck?

Sweet, thanks, I heard that song in Terminator Salvation and was wondering what it was. I like it.

more pictures of the bar installed. I actually managed to capture some of the strobe flashes! you can see in the rear shot of the truck how I got them hooked in an "X" pattern in the rear, the front is also alternated with the other 2 in the bar, the intersection strobes just do crazy rapid fire.

The Ricochet kit is wired to go into low priority when I put in in reverse, but Ill have to disconnect that since its no longer just reverse lights on the PS, unless tehres a way to program low priority to just power set 1.

Here's the 3 minis I made, all together. The top, smallest one, now has new endcaps and dividers to replace the used, yellowed ones.

And the 3rd, the true micro mini Liberty w/ 4 corners only. It's what I was trying to accomplish with the middle all blue one, but didn't quite get it right. The difference in the two is the middle one has the black inner dummy power supply, while the smallest doesn't have one, it's held together by the corners and lenses only. Filler screws and nylock nuts are in the holes, but there's nothing there except the top plate. Unit is red/blue with LIN12 corners and 5mms in the endcaps and has a ULF28 flasher. Not sure I'm sold on the ULF28, I'll probably change it out for a DPS Freedom corner flasher, or a ULF44. I'll try and get a video when I get a chance.

I've had several requests/questions on measurements for the large minibar, so here's a repost of a PM I sent.

Frame is 22 3/4 in, but you could probably get by with 22 1/2 in, or a tish longer. There's still room to squish the divider foam in more, so 1/4 inch overall, or 1/8 inch on each end isn't going to make a difference for lens length.

Lens sections - 5 inches for the 2 inner sections, 5 11/16 inches for the 2 outer/corner sections.

The top/small one, the frame is 10 3/8 inches and each of the lens sections are 5 inches.

What strobe power supply did you use?
Custom?
If so any place to get diagram and parts to assemble one?

Originally Posted by ffjwhite

Here is mine. I made a Fully loaded Strobe version of the 2100. It contained 8 strobes, TDs as well as 2 Amber LEDs in the rear.

My Custom Built Lightbar - YouTube

Here is a little project I've been doing. These lights will replace the 3 mini XL's on our reserve fire truck soon that need a total restore. I took 2 full size MX7000's and cut them down to make these. Not bad for a first time project. I guess working at Code 3 building them helped me out a lot. The 2 outboard mini bars have 2 rotators in each and intersection lights. The middle section is 2 center sections built together with 2 rotators total. I had flashers, but the flasher circuit was bad so I left them out. 1 of the standard speed rotators is a bit noisy, but works fine; I'll replace it later.

Originally Posted by Tony63031

Here is a little project I've been doing. These lights will replace the 3 mini XL's on our reserve fire truck soon that need a total restore. I took 2 full size MX7000's and cut them down to make these. Not bad for a first time project. I guess working at Code 3 building them helped me out a lot. The 2 outboard mini bars have 2 rotators in each and intersection lights. The middle section is 2 center sections built together with 2 rotators total. I had flashers, but the flasher circuit was bad so I left them out. 1 of the standard speed rotators is a bit noisy, but works fine; I'll replace it later.

Hey... They turned out great! If ya need anymore of them, you have my number.

Whelen Responder bar with a SHO ME micro light LED RED in color also a SHO ME random LED flasher.

Originally Posted by Station 3

I like how there is still some mirror showing...

Here is a custom Whelen Centurion I added six 400 linear LED modules from a mini Responder G9PA using the brackets and flasher from it. I actually had two of these G9PA so I had four brackets as they only have two and needed three. Since the lightbar cannot be seen from the rear I did not need to add any. Yeah it seems like a arrow light to the front, but gives the lightbar the best of both worlds, LED & halogen lights. I think it looks factory original and you would not know it was custom build looking at it as the brackets worked perfectly.










Video

Originally Posted by K9Vic

Nice war wagon, M1009?

Very nicely done! It looks great!

(Nice photo coverage also)

Thanks, I was watching TV the other day and the Responder was on the shelf next to it and thought to myself; "I bet those would fit in the Centruion". So the next morning I found out they did and looks darn good.

Yes Ipuvaepe, that is a M1009 one of two I own, along with a M1010 ambulance.

Nice build K9!!

I don't much like (read: hate with a burning passion) LEDs on an older vehicle, but if you really must, that's the way to do it.

This is one I did for a small, lake-town VFD in 2010. I had sold a bunch of their old equipment for them and had gotten this 3-rotator XL5000 from J. Duke in conjunction for a partial cash-trade for a silver-face PA300. I also had a box of old Code 3 rotator parts I got from a FD north of Fargo for free. There was a bunch of free-form rotators removed from 420 mini-bars, and only two out of the six that were in there were in good shape and had working motors. So, noticing the unused space behind the casacde mirrors, I decided to add rear flashers under the red lenses and rear work lights under the clear lense when working on the back of the truck at night.

The bar had three leads, 1 for the outer rotators, one for the center, and then the ground. I wired the center rotator alongside the outer ones, then added the flashers on the main warning lead with a regular Grote hazard flasher and an in-line 20A fuse. The warning lights and work lights are on their own switches in the cab. The lightbar's main warning is on a relay and the siren and all lights were properly fused according to their current draw when activated. I'm was very happy it turned out good for my first custom job and install (which took a week since I work at Garrison Dam during the summer months from 7 am to 5:30 pm on a 4-10 schedule, so it was all after-hours time to get the truck ready for service). The video can comment on the rest of the install .

I built 2 of these for a customer. Its a 2 rotator, 2 strobe, alleys 3 TDs and 3 worklights. I cut the rotator plates to fit the 2 star strobes in, mounted them to the brackets used to mount the rotator plates. Rotators are also Star.

Originally Posted by Richard P

I built 2 of these for a customer. Its a 2 rotator, 2 strobe, alleys 3 TDs and 3 worklights. I cut the rotator plates to fit the 2 star strobes in, mounted them to the brackets used to mount the rotator plates. Rotators are also Star.

Looks nice, I always love strobe/rotator combos. How do the Star rotators compare to the stock Code 3 rotators?

Same brightness as the freeform c3 rotators, but theyre more durable, they have rubber shock absorber mounts, plus stainless ball bearing rotator shafts. They fit just snuggly into the rotator tray, just had to shave 1/8th of an inch off the rotator top. Im sure If i used the small square reflector from the hotshot lights it would be just perfect, but the hotshot reflector doesnt have mounts for rotator filters

Made this bar at home just bought the Shroud "Aluminum frame" from ELB Member MEVS06 and filled the interior with TIR 3 PODs and TIR 4 AXIXTEC lights this thing has been working for about 2 1/2 years now no problems i recently added 2 CENTER TIR3 White leds from dave and it also has two MR11 Halogen take downs its all hooked up to a FS Smart Siren control head


I Run California Steady Burn RED on one of the LEDs i think it looks cool even though im in TEXAS.



VIDEO 2012-02-17_18-31-20_778.mp4 video by 069751 - Photobucket




OLD version when i had a "SHO ME" 5mm LEDs in center part of lightbar





Before adding two center TIR3s 2012-02-17_17-47-08_225.mp4 video by 069751 - Photobucket

Originally Posted by Station 3

Made this bar at home just bought the Shroud "Aluminum frame" from ELB Member MEVS06 and filled the interior with TIR 3 PODs and TIR 4 AXIXTEC lights this thing has been working for about 2 1/2 years now no problems i recently added 2 CENTER TIR3 White leds from dave and it also has two MR11 Halogen take downs its all hooked up to a FS Smart Siren control head


I Run California Steady Burn RED on one of the LEDs i think it looks cool even though im in TEXAS.



VIDEO 2012-02-17_18-31-20_778.mp4 video by 069751 - Photobucket




OLD version when i had a "SHO ME" 5mm LEDs in center part of lightbar

Video shows Private, just an FYI

Here's one I just did real quick tonight...

It started the evening as a permanent-mount, direct wire all blue 22" LFL with 4-Strobes, Take-Down and Alley Lights. But I changed the lenses and added a 500 Series Halogen with amber lens couple to a generic flasher, and a 500 Series strobe (clear) coupled to a DashKing power supply. Putting the DashKing power supply in was the trickiest part, I kinda had to force it between the LFL power supply and the basket that the strobe sits in... But its all in, secure, and works great.

Here are some pics of the finished product. I'll try to get a vid or two tomorrow (later today)...

As promised, here's the vid!!!



Comet Flash on the center strobe, Action on the corners...

Here's another bar we jst built for a customer... 28" Custom Mini Edge w/ rear work lights AND flashers...

We had to re-wire the bar, cause the wiring that can with it was all cobbled and had mixed and matched colors... The customer wanted a mini bar, but also wanted rear flashers AND work lights... So we took a pair of the Split Halogen 400s from the ULTRA we just got and threw some amber half filters on them. Flashers are being run by a FedSig FA3 flasher, strobes are powered by the stock SL6 that came in the bar.

Some Pics:








And here's a Vid:

Found this on craigslist, looks like the center section of MX Fire emergency magnet mount rotating light bar