I ordered my WeCan Liberty with a set of SXTDLED super TIR takedowns in both the front and the rear to be used as work lights. They're extremely bright but don't have a lot of spread to them which is my only real complaint. A fluted lens or adjustability would improve them as work lights. They put LR11s to complete shame.
Given that I had space in the front for an extra set of lightheads and I don't need a lot of warning power, I got another SXTDLED kit from Retired1 on the board here. I had rwo978 make me some Y-harnesses to tie them into the existing takedown wiring so they'd come on with the primary takedowns. I could have added them to the WeCan board but the software won't let you configure it that way and I don't need independent control of them. These things are WAAAY too bright to be used as flashers even in broad daylight.
Install was very easy even though I'd never worked on a Liberty before, let alone a WeCan bar. Terry's (Retired1) instruction thread here made it very simple.
Lenses stripped off the bar:
Corner modules removed and rest of the modules being slid out:
Interior view:
WeCan board, very different from other Whelen boards:
Additional SXTDLEDs added:
Testing before reassembly:
Finished product:
Light output is nothing short of phenominal. At night I can just make out trees at a kilometer or more and anything within a few hundred meters is easily discernable. Combined with Silverstar headlights and fog lights there's very little I can't see, which in my line of work is very critical. I combine this with additional scene lighting to round out the package.
I've tried getting night shots but the auto iris on most cameras just clams up and doesn't give a really good representation of how bright these really are.
Given that I had space in the front for an extra set of lightheads and I don't need a lot of warning power, I got another SXTDLED kit from Retired1 on the board here. I had rwo978 make me some Y-harnesses to tie them into the existing takedown wiring so they'd come on with the primary takedowns. I could have added them to the WeCan board but the software won't let you configure it that way and I don't need independent control of them. These things are WAAAY too bright to be used as flashers even in broad daylight.
Install was very easy even though I'd never worked on a Liberty before, let alone a WeCan bar. Terry's (Retired1) instruction thread here made it very simple.
Lenses stripped off the bar:
Corner modules removed and rest of the modules being slid out:
Interior view:
WeCan board, very different from other Whelen boards:
Additional SXTDLEDs added:
Testing before reassembly:
Finished product:
Light output is nothing short of phenominal. At night I can just make out trees at a kilometer or more and anything within a few hundred meters is easily discernable. Combined with Silverstar headlights and fog lights there's very little I can't see, which in my line of work is very critical. I combine this with additional scene lighting to round out the package.
I've tried getting night shots but the auto iris on most cameras just clams up and doesn't give a really good representation of how bright these really are.