I am 16, I am a warning light fanatic, I really enjoyed watching this and I will be using your information! My only difference is I will be installing high voltage xenon strobes. I prefer this technology to the LED. Great job on the install! - Kody
That’s good to hear. Working in the road we definitely have a bunch of warning lights. The older high voltage strobes do work, but the industry is getting away from that type of light. They are expensive and require the strobe box. Everything we get now is all led. If you can find them and they are cost effective to you then there is nothing really wrong with them. I have heard from a few sources of the strobe boxes burning up and melting connectors though.
These led lights don’t use a strobe box. You just put power to them. I don’t remember what strobe box was in it though. I would find broken wires a lot on the older strobe tube lights. I would recommend converting to the led lights personally, they cost about the same as the tubes and are more readily available. They are less problematic too I think.
@@JasonTheMunicipalMechanic k. i will look around for led replacements. i ran the part number for my old whelens and they are $400 each. i got two. I have the micro ones on each side too and havent looked up replacements yet. lol My side ones I can pretty much wire up any but my grill ones have to fit in the housing thats also the sirens so i would have to find something thats got a reflector the same size.
www.whelen.com/all-products/? these are the products I use. You need to get them from a distributor though but you can see what they have. You may have a problem if you are looking for red though. They will only sell red to firemen and blue to police. You might be able to cut out the glass tube and mount a clear led in its place though. It’s worth a though I guess.
@@JasonTheMunicipalMechanic well my truck already has Whelen lights. Original ones that we on the truck when it was specced out in 1989. Thats the manifacture date on the back of the housings,
I don’t believe you need a power supply. The ones I put in are wired through a switch to the battery. The older non led strobes needed a high voltage power supply to flash them but leds are low voltage. There are power supply switch boxes that make it more convenient to control the lights by just giving a set of low voltage switches and fuses for each circuit, but it is unnecessary. You will need a way to turn the power on and off though.
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I am 16, I am a warning light fanatic, I really enjoyed watching this and I will be using your information! My only difference is I will be installing high voltage xenon strobes. I prefer this technology to the LED. Great job on the install!
- Kody
That’s good to hear. Working in the road we definitely have a bunch of warning lights. The older high voltage strobes do work, but the industry is getting away from that type of light. They are expensive and require the strobe box. Everything we get now is all led. If you can find them and they are cost effective to you then there is nothing really wrong with them. I have heard from a few sources of the strobe boxes burning up and melting connectors though.
Thanks for easy explanation brother 👍
No problem
what strobe box you using? im trying to make my decommision fire rescue truck strobes functional again. think my tubes are burned out though.
These led lights don’t use a strobe box. You just put power to them. I don’t remember what strobe box was in it though. I would find broken wires a lot on the older strobe tube lights. I would recommend converting to the led lights personally, they cost about the same as the tubes and are more readily available. They are less problematic too I think.
@@JasonTheMunicipalMechanic k. i will look around for led replacements. i ran the part number for my old whelens and they are $400 each. i got two. I have the micro ones on each side too and havent looked up replacements yet. lol My side ones I can pretty much wire up any but my grill ones have to fit in the housing thats also the sirens so i would have to find something thats got a reflector the same size.
www.whelen.com/all-products/? these are the products I use. You need to get them from a distributor though but you can see what they have. You may have a problem if you are looking for red though. They will only sell red to firemen and blue to police. You might be able to cut out the glass tube and mount a clear led in its place though. It’s worth a though I guess.
I sorry just noticed you were already looking at the Whelen lights.
@@JasonTheMunicipalMechanic well my truck already has Whelen lights. Original ones that we on the truck when it was specced out in 1989. Thats the manifacture date on the back of the housings,
I got 6 of these leds. Do I need a power supply to put them on
I don’t believe you need a power supply. The ones I put in are wired through a switch to the battery. The older non led strobes needed a high voltage power supply to flash them but leds are low voltage. There are power supply switch boxes that make it more convenient to control the lights by just giving a set of low voltage switches and fuses for each circuit, but it is unnecessary. You will need a way to turn the power on and off though.