Comparing soundoff to feniex is laughable. It's not even close how much better soundoff is. There's a reason so many agencies have soundoff warning lights now. Soundoffs biggest problem right now is their engineering is all over the place. The mpower line has some of the best light spread/focus of anything with good durability. If they got everything straight and setup their version of dvi without having to be a 3 wire light I think there would be a lot more of that.
Excellent analysis and great implementation from 3:39. Concept is very good and does what warning arrays should do: give high information transfer, particularly at night, along with vehicle identification (i.e. all flashes synchronized and slow, with large lamp face). Berkhout in the late 70s showed the best information transfer arrangements, and that alternating bi-coloured arrays were the worst: they gave deceptive indication of motion when there was none. We have known since Crawford's work in 1962 (The Perception of Light Signals: The effect of the number of irrelevant LIghts) that flash distraction is an impediment, not a benefit. Thus the array shown at 3:39 is probably the only pattern that should ever be used, although the Australian FRV trucks have an excellent method of symmetrical bi-colour arrays: see th-cam.com/play/PLk_ETE9IGgCmsMyjjNUq-pCdQDdkmzU-H.html&si=XjZt248YcJkrOzAK . The impact of synchronized arrays is very powerful as the light 'integrates' over area and there are no distracting flashes that drivers have to sort out to interpret. This makes the driver's workload far lighter and contributes to good decision-making and therefore safety.
@@jaxprodplays because it's the Whelen factory or something like that, not the Motorola Factory, even so i'm a big fan of the Spectra, is so difficult to find a good video to make a mod 4 LSPDFR
@@maxter_paradise which yes, your right but whelen mentions the past and innovates the future,and it’s VERY hard to find a good video to make a mod for lspdfr, struggled with that for 3 months and quit.
Meh, it’s cool. But seems like a party trick at the end of the day. I’ve never been on a scene at night and thought “wow, I wish there was less light”.
For real? I don’t notice it as much as a provider when I’m on a scene, but absolutely any scene that I’ve driven through at night with new apparatus/leds, I have thought I wish they could dim those. There have been times I was just hoping there wasn’t a rig sticking out of a lane because I couldn’t see due to the extreme bright lights.
I have to admit I'm not big on Whelen. But this was the best demo for on scene management i have ever seen 10/10.
Who else would you use? Whelen is simply the best, because other companies are more economical.
@@baddriversofthenorcalarea500 Sound off!
@@ICBUS0730 Sound off is... Okay. They seem to fall in the same catagory as feniex, but just dont hold up the way whelen does.
Comparing soundoff to feniex is laughable. It's not even close how much better soundoff is. There's a reason so many agencies have soundoff warning lights now. Soundoffs biggest problem right now is their engineering is all over the place. The mpower line has some of the best light spread/focus of anything with good durability. If they got everything straight and setup their version of dvi without having to be a 3 wire light I think there would be a lot more of that.
Whelen is best.
This is awesome! It shows and explains these pattern options tremendously well.
I saw this at FDIC 2022 wow did this blow me away.
I never thought lights can be so interesting and cool
Simply Amazing! Wow! Good job Whelen! I wish we had here in Europe! I was😮 for the whole video ❤
Reminds me of the 90's Old halogen flashers
0:41 that scared me way more then it should of
Excellent analysis and great implementation from 3:39. Concept is very good and does what warning arrays should do: give high information transfer, particularly at night, along with vehicle identification (i.e. all flashes synchronized and slow, with large lamp face).
Berkhout in the late 70s showed the best information transfer arrangements, and that alternating bi-coloured arrays were the worst: they gave deceptive indication of motion when there was none. We have known since Crawford's work in 1962 (The Perception of Light Signals: The effect of the number of irrelevant LIghts) that flash distraction is an impediment, not a benefit. Thus the array shown at 3:39 is probably the only pattern that should ever be used, although the Australian FRV trucks have an excellent method of symmetrical bi-colour arrays: see th-cam.com/play/PLk_ETE9IGgCmsMyjjNUq-pCdQDdkmzU-H.html&si=XjZt248YcJkrOzAK .
The impact of synchronized arrays is very powerful as the light 'integrates' over area and there are no distracting flashes that drivers have to sort out to interpret. This makes the driver's workload far lighter and contributes to good decision-making and therefore safety.
Why do they used Motorola Spectra siren sfx instead of it's own sirens sfx at the beginning of the demo???😂😂
Spectra was iconic, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t.
@@jaxprodplays because it's the Whelen factory or something like that, not the Motorola Factory, even so i'm a big fan of the Spectra, is so difficult to find a good video to make a mod 4 LSPDFR
@@maxter_paradise which yes, your right but whelen mentions the past and innovates the future,and it’s VERY hard to find a good video to make a mod for lspdfr, struggled with that for 3 months and quit.
Free my bro W from the cloud
Honestly prefer the super flashy ones more
Good stuff but people are still dumb
Meh, it’s cool. But seems like a party trick at the end of the day. I’ve never been on a scene at night and thought “wow, I wish there was less light”.
For real? I don’t notice it as much as a provider when I’m on a scene, but absolutely any scene that I’ve driven through at night with new apparatus/leds, I have thought I wish they could dim those. There have been times I was just hoping there wasn’t a rig sticking out of a lane because I couldn’t see due to the extreme bright lights.
HATE this wave slow pattern looks horrible in person.