So I’ve given up on a certain FB group who never approves my posts. I’ve been lurking here a long time and finally decided to join.
I was just given a new F150 and I’d like to change my lights up a little. Originally I pretty much only stayed on private property during the day but now I’m doing more side of the road and night time ops. So I’d like to ditch the white I had to the rear for all amber to better conform to state law, which is routinely ignored by other operators in this regard, and because I’ve read many times that white to the rear is unsafe.
My current rear setup is/was a whelen dominator 8 TA behind the rear window(factory tint), two SNM white E6 minis on brackets attached to my bed cover, white HAW in reverse sync’d with the E6’s in an X pattern. Then I later added four red vertex HAW’s in the brake lights that were sync’d in an X with each other.
My new truck has all led tail/brake/reverse lights so I can’t use any of my HAW’s. So I’ve decided to use two amber ion’s on a license plate bracket to make up for the loss. I’m trying to decided if I want to try the Atomic Game Changer to flash the factory lights or not. Or maybe the flashers that wicked warnings have, but they’re really expensive for some reason.
A question I have is what to replace the SNM E6 minis with? I bought two new full size amber E6’s, and they’re really bright, but I think I want to stick to all whelen to the rear. The reason being is I want to use an external whelen(ulf44 or pro logic) flasher specifically for whelen “steady flash” pattern as one of my switch positions. The other two I’d like is a slow warn, almost like a school bus or train crossing, and a fast warn. The new E6’s I got seem to flicker on steady burn, and are noticeably less bright. I’m torn between using two whelen M4’s(which I’m told are super bright) or just stack a couple ion’s up on a bracket for each side. The M4’s I can maybe get in dummy heads, assuming dummy heads are brighter than a head with a flasher that’s set to steady burn.
Also I wonder about my dominator. I really hope I can get it to sync with the external flasher. Presently I control it with a switch box. Seems to me that even if I can’t get it to sync per se, that I could set the warning pattern to steady(assuming it has that option) and flash the entire bar in sync(or is that n’sync ) with the external flasher. It’s wouldn’t be ideal, but better than nothing. I could then get it to steady flash I think. On that note.... the wicked warning flasher says it’ll steady burn override if need be, and if I went that route I could possibly steady flash those lights as well. This new truck is a platinum and came with really bright mirror “spot” lights as they call them. Wicked warnings has a flasher to flash those too.
Old setup
I was just given a new F150 and I’d like to change my lights up a little. Originally I pretty much only stayed on private property during the day but now I’m doing more side of the road and night time ops. So I’d like to ditch the white I had to the rear for all amber to better conform to state law, which is routinely ignored by other operators in this regard, and because I’ve read many times that white to the rear is unsafe.
My current rear setup is/was a whelen dominator 8 TA behind the rear window(factory tint), two SNM white E6 minis on brackets attached to my bed cover, white HAW in reverse sync’d with the E6’s in an X pattern. Then I later added four red vertex HAW’s in the brake lights that were sync’d in an X with each other.
My new truck has all led tail/brake/reverse lights so I can’t use any of my HAW’s. So I’ve decided to use two amber ion’s on a license plate bracket to make up for the loss. I’m trying to decided if I want to try the Atomic Game Changer to flash the factory lights or not. Or maybe the flashers that wicked warnings have, but they’re really expensive for some reason.
A question I have is what to replace the SNM E6 minis with? I bought two new full size amber E6’s, and they’re really bright, but I think I want to stick to all whelen to the rear. The reason being is I want to use an external whelen(ulf44 or pro logic) flasher specifically for whelen “steady flash” pattern as one of my switch positions. The other two I’d like is a slow warn, almost like a school bus or train crossing, and a fast warn. The new E6’s I got seem to flicker on steady burn, and are noticeably less bright. I’m torn between using two whelen M4’s(which I’m told are super bright) or just stack a couple ion’s up on a bracket for each side. The M4’s I can maybe get in dummy heads, assuming dummy heads are brighter than a head with a flasher that’s set to steady burn.
Also I wonder about my dominator. I really hope I can get it to sync with the external flasher. Presently I control it with a switch box. Seems to me that even if I can’t get it to sync per se, that I could set the warning pattern to steady(assuming it has that option) and flash the entire bar in sync(or is that n’sync ) with the external flasher. It’s wouldn’t be ideal, but better than nothing. I could then get it to steady flash I think. On that note.... the wicked warning flasher says it’ll steady burn override if need be, and if I went that route I could possibly steady flash those lights as well. This new truck is a platinum and came with really bright mirror “spot” lights as they call them. Wicked warnings has a flasher to flash those too.
Old setup
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