Brand new AMR West Coast Special 9M

[emtanderson51]

Well, I had been spying this on Whelens clearance site for some time and finally decided to get one. I'm glad I did because the site closed 24 hours after I bought this and a few refurb Pcc9 boxes. It is absolutely perfect. 55" long with 4 front strobes, 4 front halogens and 2 endcap halogens. The strobes fire in/out, center halogens are steady burn and the outside and encap halogens are fast single flash. I have had a few used busses in worcester that had this bar and always wanted one. Now I don't have to pull one off of one of their roofs while they nap in Kelley Square...hahaha







NOT MY PICTURE

 

[801]

Very cool, but steady burn in MA???? Not saying your wrong, just suprised.

 

[emtanderson51]

Yes, they used the trucks in Cali and would send them at a certain mileage all over the countyr. A219, 283, 412 were a few....

 

[emtanderson51]

pic added of actual vehicle with this bar

 

[dmathieu]

Nice bar Steve!

 

[emtanderson51]

Thanks Dan...many a shift in one of those damn trucks!

 

[dmathieu]

PM inbound

 

[Hoff]

I grew up with these bars!

 

[emtanderson51]

They were the same configuration on the 9000 bars. There were 2 versions, the west and east coast set-ups. The west were always like this. The east coast were 55" and went across the front:

700H/400S/400S/700H/400S/400S/700H with 400H on the endcaps in red.

  R        C        R      C        R      C        R

The 700 halogens operated on the box KKK flasher and the 400 strobes were on a in out red vs. clear comet flash pattern. Very effective. The body lights had 700/5mm led heads in the grille and on the fenders. TheLEDs were on the KKK flasher and the strobes were on a comet flash pattern L/R. 

The 9000 bars were the same with mini max dual halogens in place of the 700 halogens.

 

[motorolamaniac]

Extremely nice!!

 

[JohnMarcson]

They were the same configuration on the 9000 bars. There were 2 versions, the west and east coast set-ups. The west were always like this. The east coast were 55" and went across the front:

700H/400S/400S/700H/400S/400S/700H with 400H on the endcaps in red.

  R        C        R      C        R      C        R

The 700 halogens operated on the box KKK flasher and the 400 strobes were on a in out red vs. clear comet flash pattern. Very effective. The body lights had 700/5mm led heads in the grille and on the fenders. TheLEDs were on the KKK flasher and the strobes were on a comet flash pattern L/R. 

The 9000 bars were the same with mini max dual halogens in place of the 700 halogens.

Been looking for the east coast 9000 version..... 

 

[emtanderson51]

They're easy enough to make....not much to them. Unfortunately, unless the truck is wrecked, the AMR busses all end up overseas in the Middle East.....VHTF a real one.

 

[ERIC6913]

 I saw one earlier this evening up close in action and though about you Steve LOL

 

[JohnMarcson]

They're easy enough to make....not much to them. Unfortunately, unless the truck is wrecked, the AMR busses all end up overseas in the Middle East.....VHTF a real one.

I actually have the parts to make an east coast bar (minus one dual side beam halogen), I would like a picture of the insides though.  I have several types of internal edge mounting pieces, I'd like to know which ones to use.  Were the 4 strobes remote like the halogens or was there a power supply in the bar?

Here is an east coast in action 9as stated above, the flashers ran off the box flasher.  This is obvious in the video below, as this truck has front primary lights outside the bar too.

 

[emtanderson51]

I'd be guessing but it's an educated guess. All of the versions have an internal power supply. I have never seen one have synced strobes with any of the box lights. The end cap lights are always on a flasher. In the 9M with the 700 halogens there would be a harness for the 3 700 exiting the bar and everything else would be internal. On the 9000 the standard EB6 wiring harness with one flasher inside the bar for the end lamps on the east coast. You could hook the mini beams to an internal flasher for a display bar.

 

[rwo978]

I like that top halogen flasher bar. The others, meh.

 

[JohnMarcson]

AMR Whelen Edge 9000

I have a 9M version of this bar, which was essentially an edge with two inboard strobes, a center 7x3 halogen, 7x3 halogens on the ends (both tied to the ambulance flasher) and an alley light position warning light on a flasher of its own. 9M 9000 version is what I am aiming to build...

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