Vacuum-Mount Beacons?

[supraphonic]

Question for the experts here: Over the course of the COVID stay-at-home orders, I've been doing some local government fieldwork in my POV instead of our usual agency-owned vehicles. I have an older FedSig magnet-mount strobe beacon, but my POV has a full glass roof and won't support magnetic beacons.

I recently picked up a Whelen Avenger II hoping that, for occasional parking along city streets, the visibility while mounted on my rear deck could work, but the suction cups won't work around the defroster elements, and mounting it higher ends up blocking rear-view visibility and really restricting off-axis visibility, so I think I need to be looking back at beacons again.

What's out there that's compatible with non-magnetic surfaces? I like the Whelen catalog but the L32 is ancient, and I'm not a fan of the stock SignalAlert 75 pattern you're stuck with on the accessory plug models. (If there was a way to pick up the R65 version here with its clear dome and 120 fpm double-flash, I'd be all over that.) The only other alternative I've dug up is the Code 3 SB48, but it's more expensive, looks like it's just a rebranded Ecco model, and I haven't heard great things about recent quality.

Anything I'm missing worth looking into?

 

[dmathieu]

Hook on mount

 

[LineSpotter]

Question for the experts here: Over the course of the COVID stay-at-home orders, I've been doing some local government fieldwork in my POV instead of our usual agency-owned vehicles. I have an older FedSig magnet-mount strobe beacon, but my POV has a full glass roof and won't support magnetic beacons.

I recently picked up a Whelen Avenger II hoping that, for occasional parking along city streets, the visibility while mounted on my rear deck could work, but the suction cups won't work around the defroster elements, and mounting it higher ends up blocking rear-view visibility and really restricting off-axis visibility, so I think I need to be looking back at beacons again.

What's out there that's compatible with non-magnetic surfaces? I like the Whelen catalog but the L32 is ancient, and I'm not a fan of the stock SignalAlert 75 pattern you're stuck with on the accessory plug models. (If there was a way to pick up the R65 version here with its clear dome and 120 fpm double-flash, I'd be all over that.) The only other alternative I've dug up is the Code 3 SB48, but it's more expensive, looks like it's just a rebranded Ecco model, and I haven't heard great things about recent quality.

Anything I'm missing worth looking into?

Out of curiosity... why not?
IMO its the best available pattern for a number of reasons.

 

[supraphonic]

Out of curiosity... why not?
IMO its the best available pattern for a number of reasons.

Hard to say, I know it's a standard for good reason. Maybe it's from a lot of the ECE-spec models I've been seeing, but to my eye the quint flash feels too busy next to a double flash with a good amount of on time. I like 75 on full bars or with a second beacon where you can pair it, but for a single standalone beacon 75 feels too slow to demonstrate a sense of urgency.