Thread: Whelen 90h rotators with fluted filters. Pics and Video. Now in a lightbar...

So whelen offered the 80/90 series rotators with both non-optic and fluted filters. Here is the set of NOS (or near) 90h rotators with fluted filters I just over paid for... I have never seen a set before.

New to me, very unique.

Oh… my… god…

That's like a vintage, non-terrible version of D-Tech rotators.

Here's where I ended up putting them.....

Also pictured is my other red/clear 90h

Great find, rare and very unique! We all over pay sometimes John! no worries! sometimes its what it takes to have such great rare pieces in our collections.

.........awesome.............

Wow! Those are some cool looking bars!

Nice!! Very Nice!!

John,

Could those have been designed specifically for stationary lights?

Originally Posted by badge22

John,

Could those have been designed specifically for stationary lights?

I was thinking the same thing!
Verrrry nice John!!!

Originally Posted by badge22

John,

Could those have been designed specifically for stationary lights?

Nope. Whelen offered both types for rotators and stationary lights. The non-fluted were more common than the fluted in both applications, but either could be ordered in either place. The 90h rotators pictured came this way from the factory, and the bar they are in now is correct for how they were initially ordered.

The two types of filters weren't usually mixed and matched... people usually ordered a bar all one style (again usually non fluted)... The only fluted ones I have ever seen before were amber and populated an entire bar.... there were 2 on each rotator, so no clear side on each rotator. The bar had STT and work lights, so that's the reason for the clear outer dome....

Here is the 1980 90h catalog description.

"When the outer dome is specified clear, colored spreader lens covers or non-spreader type are available for rotating reflectors and for stationary reflectors. All safety colors are available."




In typical old Whelen catalog fashion, they title it "Spreader Lens" and show the non spreader type. They often did this with strobe and halogen MAX beams and mixed rotator styles in advatedge descriptions and pics in the catalogs in the 80s and 90s....

While we are talking filters... whelen also offered two different takes on a colored internal filter for the 8000 series. Unlike the 90/80h, these two filters were not offered at the same time. The top one was the first style, the bottom the second style. After that the next two internal optics were offered in clear only.

Great stuff!!

John, you gotta stop posting these, every time I see this 90h topic, I want one more and more! mostly the rotator assemblies, but even now, the bar itself is starting to grow on me!

Half the bar is still red, I "built" this bar in photoshop... I did actually add the red filter...

NYPD Style......

thats bad ass