What is the difference between an SX Liberty and an SL Liberty?

Retired1

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Jun 1, 2010
1,912
Woodward County, OK
I am working on a 2009 Liberty. It is an SL model. I have only toyed with SX bars so far and I am unfamiliar with the SL designation. What do I have? (I already used search and Google)
 
May 25, 2010
7,072
Tunkhannock, PA, USA
I would think that it would designate different options within the I/O Board... But I can't be for certain... I'm sure Steve (emtanderson51) could answer this...
 

jluisi86

Member
Jul 12, 2010
125
Poconos, PA
Found this sometime ago here and saved it:


SL: Standard corner liberty


SX: Extended corner liberty


SE: Economy LIN9 corner liberty (Discontinued to my knowledge)


SW: WeCan Liberty


The number coming after the SL, SX, SE...


4: 44"


8: 48"


2: 54"


T/A:


All new styles ('05 & up) have built in 2 wire T/A from the factory.
 
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Retired1

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Jun 1, 2010
1,912
Woodward County, OK
jluisi86 said:
Found this sometime ago here and saved it:

SL: Standard corner liberty


SX: Extended corner liberty


SE: Economy LIN9 corner liberty (Discontinued to my knowledge)


SW: WeCan Liberty


The number coming after the SL, SX, SE...


4: 44"


8: 48"


2: 54"


T/A:


All new styles ('05 & up) have built in 2 wire T/A from the factory.

Thank you very much. I greatly appreciate your information. I was unable to find out what the "SL" meant on my own..


The complete model number of this SL bar I am building is: SL8GY5


SL = Standard corners.


8 = 48"


G = ?


Y = ?


5 = ?


I found this today. I don't totally understand it - yet.


(Liberty) LEGEND:


* = Replace * in model number with lens color desired: A=Amber; B=Blue; C=Clear; G=Green; R=Red


§ = Replace symbols with number of colored LED lightheads required (maximum 12 modules).


Order of colors in Model Number are Red, Blue, Amber and White. Use X=12, Y=11 & Z=10.


i.e. SLD2222 = 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Amber & 2 White, SLD0Z020 = 0 Red, 10 Blue, 0 Amber & 2 White


The Legend being taken from the chart of Liberty variations in this .pdf document:


http://www.whelen.com/pb/Automotive/ProductSheets/Lightbars/LFL_Liberty_Series_Linear-LED_Lightbar.pdf
 
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jluisi86

Member
Jul 12, 2010
125
Poconos, PA
I tried searching the whole number and parts of it and have found nothing. More twist and turns! Might want to try Whelen tech support, maybe they can give you some info on it.


EDIT: You edited your last post as i was typing mine, nice find!
 

emtanderson51

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Apr 9, 2011
3,795
USA Massachusetts
The SE and SL have both been discontinued by Whelen. The SL indicated the short LIN12 corners. As for the lettering after the PN it is most likely a specific model that they made many of. The DPS bars out of Texas along with the bars I got out of San Antonio both had lettered part numbers after the traditional FX and UB28 common part#. How was the bar originally configured and where is it from? The MSP DUO bars have their own part # after the regular designation....SB8MSP...
 

Retired1

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Jun 1, 2010
1,912
Woodward County, OK
*************** said:
Interesting, the designation that I typically see is SX8RRBB which I understand to be the 48" with extended corners, with the four corner colors being red, red, blue, blue.

Anyone see these part numbers?
Hi, Jared

Yep, those numbers are the way the last dozen, or so, bars I customized were labeled: SX8 followed by four Alpha characters - primarily SX8AAAA. This bar with the SL designation threw me for a loss.

Terry


emtanderson51 said:
The SE and SL have both been discontinued by Whelen. The SL indicated the short LIN12 corners. As for the lettering after the PN it is most likely a specific model that they made many of. The DPS bars out of Texas along with the bars I got out of San Antonio both had lettered part numbers after the traditional FX and UB28 common part#. How was the bar originally configured and where is it from? The MSP DUO bars have their own part # after the regular designation....SB8MSP...
Steve,

Hi. Boulder said you could also shed light on this SL model - :) - Thank you for this information.

Terry


jluisi86 said:
Found this sometime ago here and saved it:

SL: Standard corner liberty
SX: Extended corner liberty
SE: Economy LIN9 corner liberty (Discontinued to my knowledge)
SW: WeCan Liberty

The number coming after the SL, SX, SE...

4: 44"
8: 48"
2: 54"

T/A:

All new styles ('05 & up) have built in 2 wire T/A from the factory.
This is terrific and welcome information. It is exactly what I was looking for and was unable to find on my own.

Thank you,

Terry
 
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emtanderson51

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Apr 9, 2011
3,795
USA Massachusetts
Jared @ 911Lights said:
Interesting, the designation that I typically see is SX8RRBB which I understand to be the 48" with extended corners, with the four corner colors being red, red, blue, blue.

Anyone see these part numbers?

NP Terry.....the bars that you buy say....10 of get the standard designation ie SX8AABB RRRR BBBB BBWW etc but when they get an order for 100....then the bar gets it's own part number based off the bar type such as SX SW SZ FX etc....most dept's have maybe 5 cars but NYPD MSP DPS FHP do over 100 cars at a time so they get a particular assembly line with it's own part number...
 

octoberguy77

Member
May 15, 2014
975
Indianapolis, IN
SL are supposed to be 'Economy' bars with LIN9 corners instead of fully populated LIN12's and LIN4's instead of LIN6 heads. Im not sure about them having short corners...that's the first Ive heard on that.
 

shues

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May 21, 2010
10,276
NW Indiana
Im not sure about them having short corners...that's the first Ive heard on that.

Check out the SXKT**** listed on page 3 from Whelen's catalog LB06:

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