firefighter31
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fire truck and ambulance responding..
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TritonBoulder47
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Yep, it's a Roto-Ray. They're pretty worthless when all 3 are red, but R/R/G R/W/A or even R/R/A are significantly more effective.
firefighter31
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TritonBoulder47
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I agree, if you are going to the expense and trouble of having a Roto-Ray installed, don't make the bulbs all the same color, it doesn't work well and just looks like a blob of colored light.
NC lawdog
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firefighter31 said:
Also it's not an LED. It's a sealed light. I like them. Old school and badass!
NC lawdog said:
It looks to me like the led roto ray, a few dept around us have the led version now pretty badass and retro.
SBFD-E-9
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Tlauden
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That's about the most worthless light you can spend money on. I don't care what colors you have. From a distance they are not effective. Plus they are a hazard. One of our member put himself in the hospital when he went to pull another companies trash line, they had a rotoray, it hit him square in the face
ark_firefighter
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firefighter31 said:
They run around 900 bucks if you order it and install it yourself. Cheaper than a Whelen Fairfax light.
ark_firefighter
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Tlauden said:
Then someone didn't install it correctly, after the truck is placed into park the roto-ray is suppose to stop spinning and just flash.
And your firefighter shouldn't have put his face that close, not like he didn't or couldn't "see" it was there...
NC lawdog said:
That is a Roto-Ray. The Roto-Rays have been coming in with PAR36 LEDs (most seem to use the Tomar version) for several years now.
ark_firefighter said:
I've never seen them flash; all that I've seen is that turn off when the load manager is engaged.
Tlauden said:
I'm sorry, but I have to respectfully disagree with you. I think you can see them for a long distance, especially at night. I'm sorry to hear about a firefighter getting hurt, when you pull the parking brake on our trucks the roto-ray cuts off, mainly because of the clear bulb in it per NFPA, but that would fix the issue of it running while you pull the trash line.
Now that they make these with led's, can we make a flash pattern on them where you can have three different colors and only one comes on at a time? Example: Roto-Ray with a red, white ,and blue led (one color in each head). As it runs only one head cuts on at a time which makes it show a circle that goes red, then white, then blue and starts over.
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