mdlighting
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As many of you know I recently started working for Commercial Safety Services in Landover Md
Well for the last month we have been redoing my own squad from Brandywine. It all began with the replacement of the old and well worn Whelen edge and mini edges on the roof, they we're replaced with a NFPA freedom and 2 NFPA mini freedoms. You would thing well that's any easy job not so much the older edge bars had different mounting feet and the distance between mounting hole is far different than the freedoms. Lucky I was able to reuse the original mounting feet with some minor notching to fit the difference in length. When we finally got them on and wired up they were extremely dim and some of the lights would just flicker so we tested the voltage and found we were only getting 7.4 volts from the old wiring so the exploration began we removed all of the old cable and ran all new wire to them and wham problem solved. So the next thing replaces were the large 120v scene lights mounted into the side of the body those were replaced by 8 12v Whelen pioneers yes I said 8! 2 in each spot we wired them into the 900 series scene lights that run the length of the body using relays and cable from the battery. Finally we replaced the rear scene lights with 120v mini pioneers on the extend:a:lights easy fix if the driver side old light wouldn't have striped off inside the pole GRRRRR well some replacement parts from Akron Brass and were back in business. While we had the inside torn apart we replaces the old and falling apart headliner with all new diamond plate and replaced the old red halogen door open light with a red led marker light from maxima so here it is sorry not many wiring pictures I only snapped pics as we did things.
Well for the last month we have been redoing my own squad from Brandywine. It all began with the replacement of the old and well worn Whelen edge and mini edges on the roof, they we're replaced with a NFPA freedom and 2 NFPA mini freedoms. You would thing well that's any easy job not so much the older edge bars had different mounting feet and the distance between mounting hole is far different than the freedoms. Lucky I was able to reuse the original mounting feet with some minor notching to fit the difference in length. When we finally got them on and wired up they were extremely dim and some of the lights would just flicker so we tested the voltage and found we were only getting 7.4 volts from the old wiring so the exploration began we removed all of the old cable and ran all new wire to them and wham problem solved. So the next thing replaces were the large 120v scene lights mounted into the side of the body those were replaced by 8 12v Whelen pioneers yes I said 8! 2 in each spot we wired them into the 900 series scene lights that run the length of the body using relays and cable from the battery. Finally we replaced the rear scene lights with 120v mini pioneers on the extend:a:lights easy fix if the driver side old light wouldn't have striped off inside the pole GRRRRR well some replacement parts from Akron Brass and were back in business. While we had the inside torn apart we replaces the old and falling apart headliner with all new diamond plate and replaced the old red halogen door open light with a red led marker light from maxima so here it is sorry not many wiring pictures I only snapped pics as we did things.
