RyanZ71
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Interested in your thoughts on this as it has been on my mind quite a bit as of late.
Emergency lighting inside the taillight housing or rear brake light/reverse light flashers. Back in the day my department installed hideaway strobes inside the housing of taillights and reverse lights on the 98+ Crown Vics, and in a few of the 91-96 Caprice. So the 95+ vehicles got the Whelen B-Link systems and were synced up nicely with the lightbars and then the front corner strobes in the headlight assemblies (clear strobe) and the strobes in the taillights and reverse lights. Looked especially good on the Crown Vics. The strobes in the taillights would strobe a few times at the same time (both left and right at the same time) then the white in the reverse lights would strobe while the front headlight strobes would alternate side to side. Now a days, they are using LED lightheads mounted to the outside of the vehicle with those silly little twinkle twinkle little star lights that alternate left to right in that same little fixture red and blue, which I absolutely hate, Red should always be on the left of the vehicle and blue on the right side of the vehicle, none of this stupid alternating color crap in the same assembly!
HOWEVER- they have returned to reverse and brake light flashers since they have the little dinky LED pods.
I have seen a good number of highway construction contractor trucks and personal trucks that have installed a lot of cheap Chinese crap for yellow/amber warning lighting. Some of the vehicles I see are running flashing LEDs in their brake light assemblies that alternate side to side and a few even have the back-up light/brake light flashers. Since these are not considered true emergency vehicles, they can only use yellow/amber for their warning lighting here in the state of Colorado, but because the law says that brake lights must be red and front turn signals must be amber or white, are they legal in running the brake light flashers/LED alternators?
Sorry for the length, probably had a bit too much to drink. Going to bed now. Cheers and happy labor day.
Ryan
Emergency lighting inside the taillight housing or rear brake light/reverse light flashers. Back in the day my department installed hideaway strobes inside the housing of taillights and reverse lights on the 98+ Crown Vics, and in a few of the 91-96 Caprice. So the 95+ vehicles got the Whelen B-Link systems and were synced up nicely with the lightbars and then the front corner strobes in the headlight assemblies (clear strobe) and the strobes in the taillights and reverse lights. Looked especially good on the Crown Vics. The strobes in the taillights would strobe a few times at the same time (both left and right at the same time) then the white in the reverse lights would strobe while the front headlight strobes would alternate side to side. Now a days, they are using LED lightheads mounted to the outside of the vehicle with those silly little twinkle twinkle little star lights that alternate left to right in that same little fixture red and blue, which I absolutely hate, Red should always be on the left of the vehicle and blue on the right side of the vehicle, none of this stupid alternating color crap in the same assembly!
HOWEVER- they have returned to reverse and brake light flashers since they have the little dinky LED pods.
I have seen a good number of highway construction contractor trucks and personal trucks that have installed a lot of cheap Chinese crap for yellow/amber warning lighting. Some of the vehicles I see are running flashing LEDs in their brake light assemblies that alternate side to side and a few even have the back-up light/brake light flashers. Since these are not considered true emergency vehicles, they can only use yellow/amber for their warning lighting here in the state of Colorado, but because the law says that brake lights must be red and front turn signals must be amber or white, are they legal in running the brake light flashers/LED alternators?
Sorry for the length, probably had a bit too much to drink. Going to bed now. Cheers and happy labor day.
Ryan