ChargerLighting
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I got a call yesterday from a cousin who had gotten a call from one of his friends wanting to sell him a couple lightbars. I didn't have much going on so I drove out there & met the guy @ his Marina. All I had heard was that there were 2 lightbars & a 1/2 / parts bar. No idea on what make/model/color; nothing.
Walked inside & there sat 2 Jetsonics on the floor of his garage, which wasn't terribly well lit. He fired one bar up & I noticed that one was chain drive (the other is also), then he shut the rotators off, turned the flashers on, so I assumed it had 4 flashers also. OK, cool...
He went onto tell me they were Marine City, MI PD bars & they had stripped the red/blue filters out & they currently were all amber filters with takedowns & alleys.
The 2nd bar had cables cut so I didn't mess with it. I offered $100 for both, he accepted & I took them home.
Got them home & hooked up the one with long cables...red to positive, black to ground...nothing...OK?
Noticed a red/white wire...put power to it; rotators. But the blue wire is also thin...shouldn't a blue wire be thicker than this? Powered it on & the rotators start flashing!! So I bump the red/white wire again while the rotators are flashing but NOT rotating & they continue to flash as I manually rotate them via the red/white wire.
IT IS a synchro bar! (I THINK?). & everything in it works as far as I can tell...even the speaker & speaker grille are still intact.
Video below:
I got to the second bar & it looks exactly the same inside & as far as cable, but, when I put the large red & black wires to power & ground, the rotators come on....unlike the other bar....haven't figured that out yet.
Any other Jetsonic experts know exactly what I found, or am I close on what I think I have?
Walked inside & there sat 2 Jetsonics on the floor of his garage, which wasn't terribly well lit. He fired one bar up & I noticed that one was chain drive (the other is also), then he shut the rotators off, turned the flashers on, so I assumed it had 4 flashers also. OK, cool...
He went onto tell me they were Marine City, MI PD bars & they had stripped the red/blue filters out & they currently were all amber filters with takedowns & alleys.
The 2nd bar had cables cut so I didn't mess with it. I offered $100 for both, he accepted & I took them home.
Got them home & hooked up the one with long cables...red to positive, black to ground...nothing...OK?
Noticed a red/white wire...put power to it; rotators. But the blue wire is also thin...shouldn't a blue wire be thicker than this? Powered it on & the rotators start flashing!! So I bump the red/white wire again while the rotators are flashing but NOT rotating & they continue to flash as I manually rotate them via the red/white wire.
IT IS a synchro bar! (I THINK?). & everything in it works as far as I can tell...even the speaker & speaker grille are still intact.
Video below:
I got to the second bar & it looks exactly the same inside & as far as cable, but, when I put the large red & black wires to power & ground, the rotators come on....unlike the other bar....haven't figured that out yet.
Any other Jetsonic experts know exactly what I found, or am I close on what I think I have?