2009 BMW X5 Community Relations vehicle

Sigma Safety

Member
May 21, 2010
766
western Canada
I thought you all might like this. We did up a 2009 X5 for an anti-gang unit here in the Vancouver (Canada) area. It was quite a project.

Most lighting is Federal Signal (Micropulses, etc). There are also a number of Feniex Cannons on it. Siren is an MS4000U with an ES100 speaker. Viper S2 Spectralux's in the front and rear windows, too.

We installed a lot of RGB (colour changing) "bling" lights, as they wanted to show this off at schools and mall displays. We used Tecniq's RGB Dragon and Eon lights, and RGB LED strip lighting (again, from Tecniq). We found a controller to remotely control the colour changing lights, and it also syncs to the audio system so it allows the RGB lights to change with the music.

We installed a 2nd battery near the factory battery and interconnected them with an isolator. We put a 30 watt solar panel (flexible) on the roof to help keep the secondary battery charged (they have always had issues with power on the vehicle).

It was a fun but very challenging project. Sorry the pics don't do a good job of showing off our lights. Graphics were done by a local company.

The car was just voted "Best Dressed Police Car in Canada" (Community Relations/Crime Prevention category) by Blueline Magazine, our national police magazine. http://www.blueline.ca/articles/canada-s_best_dressed_police_car

 

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Sigma Safety

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May 21, 2010
766
western Canada
Nice, but where's the vid of the real lights? I wanna see a vid of the vipers and the micropulses ;-)

Sorry, didn't get any of that. I wasn't exactly planning on posting it here. The regular red/blue lights are pretty run-of-the-mill.

I'll see if the operator will be willing to swing by the office for half an hour sometime and I'll use my nice video camera to grab more footage...
 

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