help bypassing flasher!??

[firemedic10584]

Hey guys,

I've posted about this before but never found a resolution so i'm trying again. Hoping one of you guru's out there may have the answer. I'm currently updating two of our fire trucks that currently have old gen 1 LED warning lights. My issue is they are on a flasher module. I need constant power instead of the flashing that is currently happening on the power wires. The current wiring going to each light is a red, orange and black. The red and orange both flash and the black is ground. I've cut the orange wire to see if that changed anything and it did not. I don't know what kind of flasher is being used nor do I know where it is as on the truck. Can anyone think of a way I can somehow bypass the flasher without running completely new wire through the whole truck?

The truck is a 2006 E-One with old Federal Signal LEDs.

 

[firemedic10584]

I'll add the new lights will work, but the flasher causes them to do a strobe type flash which I'm not happy with.

 

[Pete L.]

Can't you call E-One and ask them where that darn flasher is ??

 

[firemedic10584]

Can't you call E-One and ask them where that darn flasher is ??

Ya, that's what I plan on trying tomorrow. I was hoping there may be another trick out there that someone may have known so I didn't have to track this thing down. On another truck I did with a external flasher, I was able to cut the black wire (which I assumed to be ground) and put it on it's own ground and it then switched the flashing red wire to a steady burn hot wire. Don't ask me how or why that worked on that one but not on this one, I've got not the slightest clue. Different flasher I'm sure.

 

[carguy411]

It sounds like if you locate the flasher and take the output wires from the flasher and send them to 12v that would be your feed to each new light head. I would definitely test each wire first before doing it.

 

[firemedic10584]

It sounds like if you locate the flasher and take the output wires from the flasher and send them to 12v that would be your feed to each new light head. I would definitely test each wire first before doing it.

Ya, that's easy to do. The hard part is locating the flasher lol. I can't take the whole dash apart to do it, but if its relatively easy to get to I can. I believe the truck has a DOT Federal signal flasher on it from everything I have been able to obtain. It shows it has a single flash 75 FPM option. If I can just switch the flash pattern to that it would work just fine too. I'll see if I can post a short video of what I'm talking about.

 

[firemedic10584]

Sorry about it being sideways, not sure why. Anyways the bottom rear facing light is the new Tecniq light. All other are still the old Fed Sig LEDs. Definitely a lot brighter, but the flash pattern I'm not a fan of.

 

[firemedic10584]

Video won't post - standby.

 

[firemedic10584]

 

[carguy411]

MYbe you will get lucky and the flasher has a steady burn option

 

[firemedic10584]

It doesn’t if it is the one I believe it to be. But a single flash 75 fpm will work.