Just bought these 4 old Whelen Edges

[cromwell]

Just bought 4 old *dusty* Whelen Edges


On two of these they have been taking some lights/domes off, but I think I can get 3 of the bars to work.


Previous owner said that all 4 should have working power supplies.


They seem all four to be some quite old Edge models... maybe from the 80´ties?


So, now I have something to do incoming winter, fixing with these oldies.

 

[toon80]

I have heard of AeroDynics and Twinsonics going for well over 200 Euros in Europe so I guess you made a good deal!

 

[cromwell]

Do you think that there will be EB4 or EB6 powersupplies inside these bars??

 

[ChargerLighting]

They won't be EB4's, those are much newer than the bars pictured. You might have EB6's in the bottom bar as the corner tubes/assemblies look newer.


The middle 2 look like they have "J"-tube corner strobes & "probably" have (2) 4 head PS's (ZFO, ZFM, etc. prefixes).


& the top one is the oldest of the 4 - looks like it has the "V-tube" corners, which means its' probably 20-25 years old as the V-tubes were used in the first version of the Edge 9000. That probably has the old "zing zing" sounding double flash power supply(s).

 

[cromwell]

Thanks for your info, ChargerLighting!


These bars have not been used for long time, they have been collecting dust for about 4-5 years. Do you think that some of the PS could have gone bad during this time??

 

[jdh]

They might have eb'-6's. I have a few of the older edges with the j tubes that have the eb-6. The power supplies were swapped out.

 

[cromwell]

Now I have got these bars at home.


I quickly tested these four today and here are the first "results"


The bar at the bottom of the picture has 6 working strobes.


The bar at the top of the picture has 8 working strobes.


(I don´t know yet what PS these have inside)


The two bars in the middle did not "fire up" when I connected the think black & red wires to the battery...


Can It have somehing to do with the bunch of the thinner wires coming out of these bars? Maybe on this model you must also connect some


of those to red or black on the battery before the lightbar will work?


Or the sad thing could be that the PS in these two bars have gone bad.. = (

 

[jdh]

The other 2 sound like a realy matrix bar. the cable with the smaller wires, look for the brown wire(it should have +12 volts on it), touch it to the others in the bundle and it should fire up. I believe blue is for front and back strobes.

 

[cromwell]

Thanks for your answer jdh!


When I put +12 volt to the brown wire nothing happened, but with the blue wire all lights fired up.


It would be nice to know what all the wires a for on this picture:


Do you jdh or someone else have a wiring diagram?

 

[jdh]

The brown will have 12v on it. When you touch the brown to the other wires in that cable, it will turn on things...such as alleys, takedowns, flashers, and other accessories. If you open the bar, look behind the rear outer strobe on the driver’s side, you will find a relay board. That board controls all of the bars functions. Each accessory and the strobe power supply's plug into that board.


The 12v on the brown is to connect to a controller in the car as an all power, and all the others would be switched from there.


As far as the model number…I would check Whelen’s site.


Usually on that model, there would be 3 cables, a red and black to power the relay board, a cable consisting of several 20 awg cable to control the bar, and another cable with a black and white cable that would connect to the optional speaker.