Found this video of a friendly officer showing this guy how the lights work. I think it's awesome that CHP officers have so much control over their lights.
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Some of the CHP light patterns
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Anyone know what model that bar is on the rear deck? Is everything hooked up to a cantrol system?
The red mirror light is actually "steady burn" right? The camera just picks up on the very rapid flashing of it, since LED's don't have a true steady burn.
Also, I know that CHP gets a lot of EVOC training, I guess that is when they go over the lighting systems. Most of the police officers I know, barely know how to change patterns on the arrowstik.
Also, I know that CHP gets a lot of EVOC training, I guess that is when they go over the lighting systems. Most of the police officers I know, barely know how to change patterns on the arrowstik.
Hoff
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vc859 said:
Yes it is steady burn. It looks like all of them are when in park... There has to be a video on here somewhere...
Hoff said:
Yeah they are steady burn, I think it must have something to do with the frames per second of the camera he was using.
You'll see the front lighting switch to steady burn when the officers roll up at 1:23
(also note how the lights change from wig-wag to all flashing when the sirens are put on yelp)
I'm assuming they are using either custom whelen lightheads with different mode priority capabilities, or every single lighthead is set to steady burn and hooked up to some proprietary flasher the CHP has. Would like to see more agencies have setups like these
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lafd55
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here a link to videos of the patterns
LED Lightbar
and heres a link to another ELB thread on this topic
http://elightbars.org/forums/f13/chp-lightbar-patterns-28070/
LED Lightbar
and heres a link to another ELB thread on this topic
http://elightbars.org/forums/f13/chp-lightbar-patterns-28070/
HILO
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vc859 said:
You are correct! LED's do flash, even when on steady burn. Watch Top Gear (BBC) and you will see brake, tail, DRL, and headlights that are LED doing the dance.
Station 3
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Nice to see that im running my lights like they do. Im not from Cali im from Texas but i try to run my lights like them i dont know why but i just love the idea most people from the area think my lights are "broken" because of the steady burn. I run mostly Federal Signal i have a Federal Signal RAYDIAN and it has the cali steady burn red to the front and also run a Federal signal VIPER S2 with steady burn and when not in an emergency my rear flashers are only amber blue on my directional.
ALSO it might be just my OCD kicking in but did anyone notice some of the LED's burnt out on that rear deck bar on the first video "blue led" and one of the amber moduels had some leds missing.
ALSO it might be just my OCD kicking in but did anyone notice some of the LED's burnt out on that rear deck bar on the first video "blue led" and one of the amber moduels had some leds missing.
Station 3 said:
I saw it too and accidentally posted about it on the other CHP thread. I guess it's out since they didn't bother to raise it about the center mount brake light.
arsenal10
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arsenal10
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VMAN said:
I noticed that too, on the rear lightbar changing patterns as they go through that first intersection. Not sure why changing the siren tone should change the rear pattern to a steady-on flash.
I also believe that they are using a proprietary control/flashing system and that the Whelen bar is made compatible with what they are using.
In general I like how they do their lighting set ups. I'd be interested in seeing what/if they did any studies on the rear-seady-blue-burn when stopped with traffic arrow. I find them being the easiest set-up pattern wise & color-wise to track as I approach.
RyanZ71
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lafd55
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arsenal10
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RyanZ71 said:
They are a LINZ6 style light head called "Raider" from whelen. They are intersection lights angled and partially hidden behind the push bumper. They are there to protect them when they decide to do a pit maneuver. Unless your talking about the flicking? They are in steady burn, the camera is playing tricks on us.
Found this site showing some of the hardware behind their setups
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL RADIO 2009
Whelen hardware is definitely custom, there is a CHP sticker on the box
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL RADIO 2009
Whelen hardware is definitely custom, there is a CHP sticker on the box
arsenal10
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Please tell me that trunk tray isn't usually positioned like that.
How is an officer supposed to carry any equipment at all with that in the trunk?
How is an officer supposed to carry any equipment at all with that in the trunk?
arsenal10
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Yeah it looks like it was just slid out for the photos.
And the laptop you see there is the CVPE by Rockwell-Collins (or iForce for other agencies). It is a computer that is basically interfaced with everything in the trunk. So the officer can control lights, siren, radios, scanners, radar all through the computer interface.
And the laptop you see there is the CVPE by Rockwell-Collins (or iForce for other agencies). It is a computer that is basically interfaced with everything in the trunk. So the officer can control lights, siren, radios, scanners, radar all through the computer interface.
arsenal10
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VMAN said:
Is this something new the CHP is doing? Like I said I have never seen a laptop PC in a CHP before.
arsenal10 said:
Yup I think it is their primary hardware now. In another thread someone told me that they no longer use the old RANGR controllers by GE because they are not narrowband compliant.
Reno911
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CHP equipment is pretty much all CHP specific. All the 2011 Crown Vics and new enforcement vehicles will have the computer system. The sliding trays began on the second batch of 09 Crown Vics that Motor Transport equipped.
Those computer/radio systems cost a crap ton, but if CHP continued using the older S810 there would be fines of some sort.
Those computer/radio systems cost a crap ton, but if CHP continued using the older S810 there would be fines of some sort.
coopers said:
I'm not too sure about cantrol and avengers because a dual avenger wouldn't let you control each lighthead individually. You could probably replicate it by mounting two raiders or lin6s side by side.
arsenal10
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coopers said:
It's a raider not an avenger, with a custom shield. Also it is probably a custom made raider, hardware and software wise. Almost everything is custom made for them.
I notice they have tabs on the computer for the radio/l/s and the CAD software.
Does the officer have to keep switching screens to read the updates on his calls and work the siren/emergency equipment
Does the officer have to keep switching screens to read the updates on his calls and work the siren/emergency equipment
I think they can also control the lights and siren using that hand grip and little box of buttons below the keyboard
VMAN said:
The Rockwell system allows for voice commands to turn on the Whelen lightbar /radio functions. From what I was shown, that controller at the bottom allows for the officer to toggle through various functions as well.