Thread: NYPD vector setup

Lookin for some information regarding the setup of the NYPD vector bars (NOT THE CURRENT LED ONES)


Wanting to re-create one when i get the funds available.

Were they:
All rotator
rotator with pods having TD/flashers/alley

Hope like hell they didnt run smart vectors (no reason why)


Any help would be greatful

sorry chad, they used visions............... very few vectors were in the fleet maybe 1 or 2 on donated 9/11 cars.........

You'll be sorely disappointed to hear that (IIRC) not only did they use Visions, but they also had some proprietary gadgetry that the NYPD won't let anyone else use, so the most recent NYPD bar that anyone can easily replicate is an AeroTwin.

...I think.

well that was a quick and easy post.

Thanks you 2

you can replicate a mini jet, or a streethawk,vista ,arjent sl2


the nypd vision had a special brain with 3 patterns , ( not programmable )

Premium Vision since the 1991 Chev Caprice. The field programmable feature was locked out to prevent guys like me from re-programming them, but they were software or administrator programmable because we went thru a few pattern changes early on. I was told earlier this year by a FedSig rep that new sirens would be programmed so that a constant tone could not be selected without a lightbar warning mode activated, not sure if in-service models would/could be configured this way.

Originally Posted by CHIEFOPS

Premium Vision since the 1991 Chev Caprice. The field programmable feature was locked out to prevent guys like me from re-programming them, but they were software or administrator programmable because we went thru a few pattern changes early on. I was told earlier this year by a FedSig rep that new sirens would be programmed so that a constant tone could not be selected without a lightbar warning mode activated, not sure if in-service models would/could be configured this way.

i can program my current SS2000sm to do that.

Yes, and IIRC my own circa- 1995 SS2000SM could too, but that's not the way the current NYPD Premium Visions are/were originally configured.
The NYPD original Premium Vision membrane keypad version (1991-1992?) was configured to activate the wail tone when mode 3 was activated and that was reset within a year or two to siren independent of lighting mode.