Can these lights be used standalone?

[Stimpy911]

This is one of the LED lights given to me. I only have 1. Is there any use for it as a stand alone or would it look very whacky???


I will have 2 LIN 3 mounted on a tail light bracket and 2 led grill lights up front. I will also have a strobe bar and strobe single dash mount. Could this CODE 3 RED LED fit in somewhere or would it just look ridiculous?


2004 Ford Explorer

 

[Stimpy911]

Would there be a way to mount this to my back window on my 04 Explorer?

 

[pdk9]

The best thing for you to do is get rid of that...that 5 mm sho-me light won't punch thru anything (unless it's in the middle of the night and there is no street illumination within a mile). For the rear window, you really need a more modern TIR-type light for the rear window of your explorer

 

[pdk9]

It's a Code3 LEDX. It's outdated technology that isn't particularly great. I'd sell it and use the few bucks u make to put towards funding some new blinkies

 

[Stimpy911]

Heck, my first POV is going to be outdated! LOL, why stop now!!!


Whelen Edge 9000


Whelen Dash King Strobe


I at least will have 2 Whelen linear3 led lights mounted on a plate bracket.

 

[PJD642]

Agreed with pdk9.  If you're going to use it, however, it should be light weight enough that 2 small bolts up through the headliner just inside the back door, with fender washers above the headliner, would work fine.

If you want to mount it directly to the glass I don't know, unless you maybe shorten the legs on those brackets and turn them 90-degrees so the part with the 3M double sided tape is facing backwards, and stick it to the rear window glass.  Cut the brackets down so the light is pressed firmly against the glass...if you do it at the bottom of the window you could also run a flat piece of metal from the body of the door to the back of the light, to help hold it.  Not sure how good that'd look however.

 

[VFRDCHIEF1601]

Steady burn above the RVM

 

[Stimpy911]

What is RVM?

 

[7d9_z28]

What is RVM?

Rear View Mirror

 

[ERM]

Isn't that the Retarded Violent Minion?

Just kidding. Rear View Mirror.

 

[Jarred J.]

double side sticky tape it to the outside of the window......

 

[Stimpy911]

For poops and giggles I decided to activate it during the day light. I thought I could see it quite well through my back window at 100 feet. Not saying I don't agree with you about using it but it punched through my window better than expected.

 

[RIG755]

I've used that budget light (briefly) as a 1st responder. After acquiring better quality hardware, that Sho-Me light found its way in a box with the Vertex LEDs. That light next to almost anything else wasn't good enough to be a 3rd brake light, let alone being used for emergency lighting.


But, if you want, make me an offer, and I'll send ya the Sho-Me light I have. Then you'll have TWO! LOL

 

[Stimpy911]

Well I wish I could afford the higher priced lights but until baby 1 and 2 are out of diapers I will do with what I can get lol. I will have a pair of LIN3 WHELEN lights on a tail light bracket as well.

 

[pdk9]

Well I wish I could afford the higher priced lights but until baby 1 and 2 are out of diapers I will do with what I can get lol. I will have a pair of LIN3 WHELEN lights on a tail light bracket as well.

I hear ya, but check out advanced warning lights (AWL). They have a Pulse dash light series at $60-100 new that are a very bright, without breaking the bank, and they have a sale on NOS cobra 2x that you can put in the rear window for about $100. And, there's no price on safety when you're responding brother

 

[Stimpy911]

I was looking on that AWL site. They have some pretty good deals

 

[Radarcop290]

There is definitely nothing wrong with the LED-X you have from Code 3.   LED-X was one of Code 3's first products in the LED lighting arena.    They were fairly bright for being essentially generation one LED technology.    They blew away 911EP LED products who were the first LED lights in the Law Enforcement market. I had two double Code 3 LED-X lights red/blue in the back window of my 1993 Ford Crown Vic Patrol Vehicle towards the end of it's life cycle which I moved to my 1998 and then 2002 Crown Vic's when I got those.  Finally I gave them to a friend who is still using them to this very day in his unmarked Ford Expedition.   One thing about them....THEY LAST!   I'd put it up on a headliner to the front center or in the rear top center.