AuroraBorealis
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One of the last bastions of vintage lighting capitulating to today's wave....R.I.P. :hopeless:
Mars 888 LED Traffic Breaker New | eBay
Mars 888 LED Traffic Breaker New | eBay
K9Vic said:Wow, LED can light. Sad, but I see why they did it.
I was by a 5 alarm apartment fire last night and I noticed that every single fire rig of the may be 50 that were that were there had all LED lights. Not a single fire truck or police unit that I saw had strobes or halogen rotators. Expect one older early 2000 Ford Expedition Battalion Chief unit had a Whelen strobe bar and deck strobes around it. Really looked out of place with the strobes. So not really hard to believe that they are making the MARS 888 with LEDs.
K9Vic said:I see your point, as for that 5 alarm fire back in the day if they were all halogen rotators it would flood and light up the surrounding area. With the LED lights on all those trucks that did not happen as the light beams of LED do not project like the old halogen lights. So yeah, have to wonder how well that would work with a LED light over the halogen.
stansdds said:Unlike the Whelen spotlight, the new 888 from Tri Light appear to have no focusing lens.
Zapp Brannigan said:If the right optics I am sure it would work pretty well. Look at how Whelen made the LED spotlight. Those work pretty darn well!
RyanZ71 said:LED's in a MARS is JUST WRONG.
K9Vic said:Expect one older early 2000 Ford Expedition Battalion Chief unit had a Whelen strobe bar and deck strobes around it. Really looked out of place with the strobes.
stansdds said:Unlike the Whelen spotlight, the new 888 from Tri Light appear to have no focusing lens.
Torpedo said:....and it's confusing the little turtle hatch-lings who can no longer find their way to the ocean so that they may be eaten by bigger things that swim. Agreed, this is a bad idea. Grow some and put an aircraft landing light in it. LEDs are boring unless they're in my rear view mirror. :bonk:
JohnMarcson said:Mars has updated the "bulb" in the 888 before. LEDs are the current standard for warning, so they have updated again.
AuroraBorealis said:One of the last bastions of vintage lighting capitulating to today's wave....R.I.P. :hopeless:
Mars 888 LED Traffic Breaker New | eBay