Mars Attacks

[dakarm34]

I fired all three up at once. The aurora Borealis, Spectrasystem, and oscillating spectra.

 

[solid_snake]

COOL!!!Too bad,the video is too shortL!

 

[JennyCop]

Please make a longer video!

 

[dakarm34]

I'll make a longer video tomorrow. The reason it was that length is because my Tripp lite power supply shutdown due to it being over 30 amps being drawn. I make not be able to have all of them going at te same time. I'll have to see

 

[HillRock]

Mmmm light porn. That spectra system spins nice and fast! I'm envious, nice lights,

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

I am not a big vintage guy, I have just had a small interest in some of the older stuff out there....


But I would kill to get my hands on those Mars lights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Disclaimer: For all you LEO's out there, not literally..... Ok maybe...... No, I really wouldn't, but I do want them!!!!!!!

 

[Fireball]

:goodpost:

 

[stansdds]

I'll make a longer video tomorrow. The reason it was that length is because my Tripp lite power supply shutdown due to it being over 30 amps being drawn. I make not be able to have all of them going at te same time. I'll have to see

All those Mars bars combined are probably pulling 34 to 36 amps, not really good for a 30 amp power supply :nono: . The video, even as short as it was, is good. :thumbsup:

 

[dg0223]

You don't have to make a new video, just loop that one 50 times to make a super long video, then everyone will ask you to make a shorter one.

 

[dakarm34]

I rigged the wiring from my other power supply so I could safely run all three at once. Here it is in HD.

 

[dakarm34]

If the brown truck doesn't destroy it there will be a Full Mars spectrasystem bar with 2 888s 2 pair of rotators and rear flashers in my hands next week. I don't have enough amperage to run all my Mars, including that odd non sealed beam skybolt. Ill try to update my video with all of them going at some point in the video. Stay tuned.

 

[JennyCop]

Keeping my fingers crossed the guys in brown don't destroy it! Looking foward to the next video!

 

[stansdds]

Yeah, UPS often means United Package Smashers.

 

[Skip Goulet]

I fired all three up at once. The aurora Borealis, Spectrasystem, and oscillating spectra.

Nice! I've never seen an Aurora lit up. Seen pix of them on vehicles, but never lit.

 

[TheLightFromMars]

Yeah, UPS often means United Package Smashers.

..or "Ur Parcel's Smashed"

 

[chrismartin1701]

i want the blue one

 

[Skip Goulet]

Yeah, UPS often means United Package Smashers.

I've had my share of problems with UPS, but by far have had more problems with USPS. A few years ago I shipped a nice older Q siren to a guy in MO whom I'd met thru ebay. It got to him in pieces. Thankfully I had had enough sense to insure the siren properly, so things worked out o.k. The problem with both entitities is that they totally ignore "fragile" or "glass" stamped on the box.

 

[fyrboy]

For me, FedEx asks fewer questions & pays claims the quickest. Here's an A-B I shipped to Hawaii not long ago. Sorry the movements appear so frenetic.

 

[PinballCharlie]

Very nice collection you got..... Love the lightshow! These Mars lights remind me of a washing machine with the agitator in it going back and forth.

 

[Skip Goulet]

For me, FedEx asks fewer questions & pays claims the quickest. Here's an A-B I shipped to Hawaii not long ago. Sorry the movements appear so frenetic.

My main problem with Fedex has been their problem in finding my place since I live in a rural area. For the most part, that hasn't happened with UPS, except lately. They've been so over-run with the increased population to the oil boom here in Midland/Odessa, that they've put on new people who couldn't find their backside with a compass! That may also be one of the the problems with USPS. I buy vitamins mail-order, and they're sent via USPS. What used to take 3 or 4 business days to get here is now taking up to two weeks. No wonder the Post Office is going broke!

 

[Maxim2Eng]

Very nice collection you got..... Love the lightshow! These Mars lights remind me of a washing machine with the agitator in it going back and forth.

That's because it IS a washing machine agitator!


Seriously, the motor and gearbox looks like it came out of a Maytag. I guess they didn't want it to break.

 

[dakarm34]

Ill also have to post pictures of my ABs under carriage. It doesn't quite look like the others I've seen.

 

[Skip Goulet]

That's because it IS a washing machine agitator!
Seriously, the motor and gearbox looks like it came out of a Maytag. I guess they didn't want it to break.

I can attest to how those lights hold up. We had an old DL8 'figure-8' light that we put on our first ambulance in 1970. It was a 6-volt light originally, and the only modification we did was to put a 12-volt 1019 (junior beacon) bulb in the light. The light, hooked to 12-volts, oscillated quite faster than on 6-volts, and was very bright with the big jr. beacon bulb. We ran that light for several years with no damage to the old motor.

 

[dakarm34]

Here it is. My latest Mars bar. It's missing the end caps, but I plan on making a set from the end caps of my mini spectra.