JohnMarcson
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I added a few older videos from my phone, but i just got a decent video camera so there will be more and higher quality videos of my collection coming soon.
I'm still waiting for a tracking number for the FireMaster...
I added a few older videos from my phone, but i just got a decent video camera so there will be more and higher quality videos of my collection coming soon.
I added a brief tour video today (HD is still processing). Please excuse the mess, it was never meant to be stored in the room it is in.
Themes for upcoming videos include:
I think that may be an in person pick up at this point..... the things FedEx could do to it....I'm still waiting for a tracking number for the FireMaster...
Want help organizing lol........im down for a roadtripI added a brief tour video today (HD is still processing). Please excuse the mess, it was never meant to be stored in the room it is in.
Themes for upcoming videos include:
-Everything Oscillating by Whelen; from the Rotabeam Commander full circle to the Rotabeam LED and the halogen stuff in the middle.
-Whelen Advantedges
-Whelen Edge variants
-The progression of the Responder minibar and valubar
-Whelen Rarities (including portable battery operated strobes)
-The Whelen 8000, 80, 90 and Commander ERA
-Whelen ambulance products
-Early Whelen "Linear LEDS" that came before the Super LED line
-Whelen Mechanical tone sirens
-My favorite Code 3 XL5000/9000 features
-Stuff Code 3 made for the rear deck
-Stuff from Federal Signal I should not have bought or built (including a full vid on the custom Smart Vector)
And more by request... I also have around 1000 more pages of vintage catalogs filed away that have never been uploaded including ads for the Rotabeam Commander beacon.
I appreciate your time and views, I bought a new camera and I am setting up a power supply at a filming backdrop so this should be a lot better quality content.
........im down for a roadtrip
There will come a time when items are documented and then given away or sold. I'm just breaking the surface now.Want help organizing lol........im down for a roadtrip
I am experimenting with digital photos vs. scanning, the scanner is tough with the thick catalogs bending pages back. Here is a teaser in lower quality.Looking forward to seeing those catalog pages
Here is a rough video I shot on my phone after digging it out. The better quality version with a better backdrop is coming soon. But this gives you an idea of what the bar was about. Interestingly enough the side flashers were powered by an internal flasher and not hooked in with the ambulance flashers like the front ones.I remember those AMR edge bars. Always thought they were cool. Nice mix of strobe and halogen but also some sync due to hooking the halogens to the ambulances flasher.
Here is a rough video I shot on my phone after digging it out. The better quality version with a better backdrop is coming soon. But this gives you an idea of what the bar was about. Interestingly enough the side flashers were powered by an internal flasher and not hooked in with the ambulance flashers like the front ones.
This one is 52" model 9m. When they used the 9000 series there were some shorter ones floating around with dual halo-beams in place of the 700s. It's an interesting concept.interesting. A friend of mine works at AMR here in steuben county ny.........interested to see how the 700 halogens were mounted, may try and do something like that setup.
kind of ironic but i actually have an ambulance flasher out of a decommissioned ambulance that i bought everything off of (dont ask what the hell im gonna do with as many 900s that i now own lol).
what length is the bar.....52”??
This one is 52" model 9m. When they used the 9000 series there were some shorter ones floating around with dual halo-beams in place of the 700s. It's an interesting concept.
The internals are interesting, the direct remote wire for the three front halogens is interesting, partially bypassing the control board. The biggest surprise I had was the side flashers running off an internal lightbar flasher. I has always assumed they were remote too. Maybe my memory fails me but I thought on the 9000 series ones the side lights were run off the ambulance flasher also. Someone find me a youtube video and prove me wrong I guess.okay. Guess i might have an idea with the frames i have
Feel free to put me on the list for the Code 3 SlikStik!There will come a time when items are documented and then given away or sold. I'm just breaking the surface now.
I know that trick.I think that may be an in person pick up at this point..... the things FedEx could do to it....
I bought a later edition firemaster advantedge and look at the way they massacred my boy....
It arrived like that......in a factory box, smashed end cap exposed dangling by packing tape, the image haunts me to this day.
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Here in CT, I could have sworn that I saw, at least some version (9000 or 9M), had the side halogens flash off of the ambulance flasher…. As they were Synced with the front corner red halogen.
but that’s going off memory…. I could be wrong.
Full run though of the modes while closing it upI'm digging this vector
l still have my red/clear one with the takedowns and center rotator, buy I felt like it was kind of greedy to have two when someone else was searching for one. I need to take to the domes off this one and clean it, I can do a domes off video. The way they repurposed the pierce-alert with gen I advantedge rotators is pretty cool.OH MY...........
A quick video of a bar I am selling to a ELB member.
It might be; I had two all blue ones over the years (one already sold locally to a friend). One blue one was yours, from the Indiana vollie like you said. The other blue one was from a NY vollie. I also had the red/clear one I am keeping and an all red one with red/green outer lower flashers (sold on here). So I have had four and now I'll be down to one, which is heading in the direction my wife prefers. The two all blue ones were then same so I may never know. I like to think we keep these "in the ELB family".This looks like the AdvantEdge OSC that I sold you, John. If so, I found it for sale on Craigslist. The seller was a firefighter somewhere near Bremen, Indiana.
I like to think we keep these "in the ELB family".