Fire apparatus sync

[theroofable]

In the final stages of the specs for our new rescue pumper. All of the body lights are M6s and M9s, for a total of about 16-20 lights all together. The question here is that what should be done to sync these lights together? Would the sync wire be able to sync all of them together or is it just better off to go with a central flasher? I am leaning towards a flasher but I'm not sure which one to go with. This is all an effort to avoid the annoying in and out of sync blob patterns.


I would also like to put a low power mode switch with the rest of the dash switches. I was thinking about some sort of photocell to do this, do they make such a thing that could be used on the truck?

 

[Travelin Man]

Our new pumper is currently under construction, and we synced all of our lights (except for the two PowerArcs) off a central flasher. We also put a dimmer switch in, and the manufacturer told us that ours was only the second request for an LED dimmer that they'd had before.

 

[theroofable]

Thanks for the response. By any chance do you know what flasher you ended up going with?

 

[Kd8bao]

Depending on the draw of the lights you could use 2 ULF44 flashers. 4 channel so the option of phasing is there. They also have low power input. You could run each side of the truck on channels 1&4 then the back could be on 2&3. Sync the two flashers together and should be good to go.