whelen 4500 corner upgrade questions

[Shawn L]

we have a whelen 4500 series bar on our rescue, looking to ditch the 2 corner rotators for angled leds, im guessing that freedom corners would work but just looking to see if someone has gone down this road before, are there special brackets needed and such? thanks Shawn

 

[wilsonbr90]

I used extended corners in 4500 flush mount bars. Had to remove one of the ears on the corner module and used one of the original mounts for the halogen lights.

 

[shues]

we have a whelen 4500 series bar on our rescue, looking to ditch the 2 corner rotators for angled leds, im guessing that freedom corners would work but just looking to see if someone has gone down this road before, are there special brackets needed and such? thanks Shawn

I suspect this situation will take something very similar to what was required when trying to use extended corner modules in an Edge 9000 or Edge 9M frame extrusion:

I have just gone through some of this myself. I'll answer the questions I can.


I believe so. However, you can't get modular corner modules to mount in an Edge 9000 frame extrusion without first cutting/grinding off the lower inner mounting tab. It does not slide into the extrusion, as there is no channel for it:














Ultra frames are 2" larger in the front-to-back dimension. Edge 9000 frame extrusions lack the mounting channel for the modular corner modules as pictured above.


When I purchased some over the last few months, I used the word "standoff" in my wanted thread and had several people understand what I meant. There are some by that name for sale in the classifieds currently.


Yes, and there are no special mounts. In fact, the 9M uses 400-series halogens for alley lights. Ultra and 9M endcaps have clips and bosses designed to retain 400-series lightheads.

Source: http://elightbars.org/forums/threads/whelen-edge-9m-questions.35474/#post-326242

 

[wilsonbr90]

4500 frames are actually taller than a 9m bar. Only 1 ear needs to be removed to mount it square.

 

[shues]

4500 frames are actually taller than a 9m bar. Only 1 ear needs to be removed to mount it square.

Thank you. I didn't know that.