With Pete L.'s help, we avoided something of a big misstep by trying to modify a StreetHawk into an all-light bar... since the darn thing is still mounting to a fire engine.
Since I've yet to see the underside of a StreetHawk and its mounts, does anyone have any insight or experience with how plausible it would be for us to use the StreetHawk mounting hardware, and unbolt the Hawk and use those same mounts to install a MX7000 (58") in its place?
The white shirts are rather passionate about something more than four rotators on the roof, but can't get the board to sign off on more than a "maintenance" expense, hence the half-baked approach... but if it's just not do-able, or ill-advised, there ends the latest line of "what if we do this...?" ideas from those same colorless shirts. Their view is if we can re-use the mounts, which are already factory-attached to the roof (no new holes), re-wire the harness from the Hawk to the 7000's comparable functions, and use the 3-4 unused wires for other bits (since the factory was awesome about putting large load relays on those wires, even the unused/spare leads).
(And yes, I was torn if this is a vintage light or a current light, since Hawk is probably vintage, MX7000 probably not, so erred on the side of the classic bar.)
Thanks!
Since I've yet to see the underside of a StreetHawk and its mounts, does anyone have any insight or experience with how plausible it would be for us to use the StreetHawk mounting hardware, and unbolt the Hawk and use those same mounts to install a MX7000 (58") in its place?
The white shirts are rather passionate about something more than four rotators on the roof, but can't get the board to sign off on more than a "maintenance" expense, hence the half-baked approach... but if it's just not do-able, or ill-advised, there ends the latest line of "what if we do this...?" ideas from those same colorless shirts. Their view is if we can re-use the mounts, which are already factory-attached to the roof (no new holes), re-wire the harness from the Hawk to the 7000's comparable functions, and use the 3-4 unused wires for other bits (since the factory was awesome about putting large load relays on those wires, even the unused/spare leads).
(And yes, I was torn if this is a vintage light or a current light, since Hawk is probably vintage, MX7000 probably not, so erred on the side of the classic bar.)
Thanks!