Thread: Whelen Tir6 Slimlighter question..

I have a quick question about my slimlighter.......can you change out one of the light heads for a different color light head or is to be left in there without messing with it???

Any help would be great!!

Thanks,
Devin.

You can swap modules around, just cut the wires and crimp or solder the new light head in it.

it can be done easily, i have a friend who also changes the leds , he made a green/green slimlighter ,it looks great

I've done it but I wouldn't recommend it. There isn't always enough wire length to but butt splices on and you aren't going to be able to get as reliable a solder joint as an industrial robot can get.

-Jared

Originally Posted by WLTEMS

I have a quick question about my slimlighter.......can you change out one of the light heads for a different color light head or is to be left in there without messing with it???

Any help would be great!!

Thanks,
Devin.

Originally Posted by Jared @ 911Lights

I've done it but I wouldn't recommend it. There isn't always enough wire length to but butt splices on and you aren't going to be able to get as reliable a solder joint as an industrial robot can get.

-Jared

From one Slimlighter to another, its plug and play take out the 4 screws and slide the module over the pins.

I've doe it several times, I only cut the wire when I sync two of them together.

It is funny that this would come up this week. I have a R/B tir-6 Slimlighter that I wanted to change to R/R and contacted both my dealer and Whelen to purchase a red module. Whelen will not sell a module as a "service part" since it is soldered to the board. If you can find someone to sell you the module please post it here as I will want to buy one too.... As pointed out above this can be done and I have done it several times before on other Whelen products.

So I was looking to do the same. I wanted to change out one of the colors on my slimlighter. Could I just buy any Whelen TIR6? Would it be a 500 series? 2 wire or 4 wire? I am very new to messing around with these LED lights. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Originally Posted by bookem699

So I was looking to do the same. I wanted to change out one of the colors on my slimlighter. Could I just buy any Whelen TIR6? Would it be a 500 series? 2 wire or 4 wire? I am very new to messing around with these LED lights. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Two wire, if you have never done something like this and do not have experience in wiring etc ask someone to do it for you.

It is a different board than the 500 Series TIR6, you will have to swap it out with another TIR6 slimlighter.

-Jared

Originally Posted by bookem699

So I was looking to do the same. I wanted to change out one of the colors on my slimlighter. Could I just buy any Whelen TIR6? Would it be a 500 series? 2 wire or 4 wire? I am very new to messing around with these LED lights. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Originally Posted by MEVS06

Two wire, if you have never done something like this and do not have experience in wiring etc ask someone to do it for you.

The board actually has no wires, just sockets for pins that pass through the board.

Originally Posted by shues

The board actually has no wires, just sockets for pins that pass through the board.

I was referring to use a two wire non built in flasher model and solder it to the board

Originally Posted by MEVS06

I was referring to use a two wire non built in flasher model and solder it to the board

What I meant was the circuit board that has the 6 diodes on it, not the two-output Slimlighter flasher itself.

Changing colors in a MM Whelen Slimlighter is as easy as sliding out the L-bracket that the suction cup bracket screws to, removing the lens, removing the optics, unscrewing the LED board from the heatsink, lifting the LED board up off of the contact pins, and simply reversing these steps with the new LED board.