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Good Morning Everyone!
I thought I'd share a project that will be making its way to the For Sale side of things soon, that isn't common. A custom project... a Whelen WeCan Delta!
I started with a Whelen Delta frame. I wanted this thing filled with LEDs. No moving parts. As I conceptualized it, I wanted it to be WeCan (at the time I didn't know Whelen didn't make the Delta in WeCan) and I wanted LED rotators.
So... It's taken about 2 years of compiling supplies for this build and countless hours conceptualizing, building and troubleshooting... The bar turned out AMAZINGLY! On the edge of TOO bright! It's a Whelen frame, a WeCan Liberty IO Board... 14-Lin 6's, LR-11 Take downs and Alleys, 4-400 Series 6-over-6... and 3-911EP 360 Stars... yes, 911EP Star LED rotators!
I've always liked the 911EP LED rotators and I was able to get them for SIGNIFICANTLY less that what Whelen wants for their new Rota-Beams. I also feel like the Star 360 has the best rotator patterns secondary to the Rota-Beam.
There is one small pitfall with this build, that I was not able to overcome due to the hardware limitations of the WeCan IO. Originally, I wanted the 911EP rotators to be controlled by the WeCan IO board so all you had was a Power harness and the WeCan wiring. What I found yesterday was the way voltage is sent to the lighthead by the IO board doesn't bode well for these rotators. I tried negative trigger relays, direct wiring, and power directly with grounding through the IO board. All options did not work. So, the LED rotators are set on specific rotator pattern which can be changed by the pattern wire (the bar has to be opened to do it) and each rotator has a dedicated power and ground in the main power harness.
This build was more complex than it might seem. A WeCan board isn't supposed to fit in a fully populated Delta... The frame isn't made to mount 911EP Stars. You can't just slap a standard pair of Liberty Takedowns in this bar, they're specific to the Delta. I had to do a decent amount of customization despite almost all Whelen OEM parts to make this configuration work, and I guarantee you have not seen another one in this configuration.
The Wecan software for this build proved challenging. Because Whelen doesn't have a Delta WeCan, I had to use a WeCan Freedom setup in the Wecan software with a "key" as to which lighthead went where to create patterns and setting. This is my first WeCan bar so still learning about the programming. One things for sure it that it gives significant functionality and variety.
A quick buff of the NOS lenses, and she's ready to roll.
Alright... Enough words... everyone wants pictures and more importantly VIDEOS!... Here you go...
Thanks,
Seth
I thought I'd share a project that will be making its way to the For Sale side of things soon, that isn't common. A custom project... a Whelen WeCan Delta!
I started with a Whelen Delta frame. I wanted this thing filled with LEDs. No moving parts. As I conceptualized it, I wanted it to be WeCan (at the time I didn't know Whelen didn't make the Delta in WeCan) and I wanted LED rotators.
So... It's taken about 2 years of compiling supplies for this build and countless hours conceptualizing, building and troubleshooting... The bar turned out AMAZINGLY! On the edge of TOO bright! It's a Whelen frame, a WeCan Liberty IO Board... 14-Lin 6's, LR-11 Take downs and Alleys, 4-400 Series 6-over-6... and 3-911EP 360 Stars... yes, 911EP Star LED rotators!
I've always liked the 911EP LED rotators and I was able to get them for SIGNIFICANTLY less that what Whelen wants for their new Rota-Beams. I also feel like the Star 360 has the best rotator patterns secondary to the Rota-Beam.
There is one small pitfall with this build, that I was not able to overcome due to the hardware limitations of the WeCan IO. Originally, I wanted the 911EP rotators to be controlled by the WeCan IO board so all you had was a Power harness and the WeCan wiring. What I found yesterday was the way voltage is sent to the lighthead by the IO board doesn't bode well for these rotators. I tried negative trigger relays, direct wiring, and power directly with grounding through the IO board. All options did not work. So, the LED rotators are set on specific rotator pattern which can be changed by the pattern wire (the bar has to be opened to do it) and each rotator has a dedicated power and ground in the main power harness.
This build was more complex than it might seem. A WeCan board isn't supposed to fit in a fully populated Delta... The frame isn't made to mount 911EP Stars. You can't just slap a standard pair of Liberty Takedowns in this bar, they're specific to the Delta. I had to do a decent amount of customization despite almost all Whelen OEM parts to make this configuration work, and I guarantee you have not seen another one in this configuration.
The Wecan software for this build proved challenging. Because Whelen doesn't have a Delta WeCan, I had to use a WeCan Freedom setup in the Wecan software with a "key" as to which lighthead went where to create patterns and setting. This is my first WeCan bar so still learning about the programming. One things for sure it that it gives significant functionality and variety.
A quick buff of the NOS lenses, and she's ready to roll.
Alright... Enough words... everyone wants pictures and more importantly VIDEOS!... Here you go...
Thanks,
Seth
