Man this brings back some memories. The very first patrol car I ever drove was decked with an MX7000 with the rear traffic advisor. I loved it. I loved I could flash to the rear without blinding people to the front while working traffic enforcement (think DWI/DUI roadside tests), plus the oscillating lower outer lights were simply amazing at clearing traffic at intersections. Up until the day I first used that light bar, I had been on a fire department, and always had issues with having to wait for people to realize I wasn't just sitting there with my lights flashing just because I wanted to look pretty. Those oscillating outer lights on the lower deck really are missed in modern light bars.
Yeah, the MX was easily the best rotator bar made, it had a TON of features, and it's super easy to work on... which is why I have more MX bars in my collection than anything else. Thanks for watching!
There’s currently a 2002 Crown-Victoria in my town’s fleet. It’s awesome! Has the black steel wheels and chrome center caps. Running a huge blue Federal Signal rotating bar. It’s awesome seeing the old girl running code 3!
The Rusty Hubcap US that’s really cool! It’s hard to find anybody running the old halogen stuff anymore. Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe for future videos!!
Old School Cop lights right there, from the 70s Heavendies, 80s ladies, and the 90s naughties 😂😂😂, and early to mid 2000s mountain. I think either 2010 to 2012 and after started the LED cop lights. I miss the old cop lights not to mention the Crown Vics
i love the fact federal signal brought back the vision with LED lights and rotators.. i swear i sent them an email once asking if it was possible to combine LED and rotator technologys and then they came out with the vision SLR years afterwards.
Yeah they are pretty cool. Honestly, they sent super bright during the day, because the light head aperture isn’t very big- but the technology is definitely very cool.
Thanks Chris!!! I don't know if you've checked out my other videos, but I've added quite a few since this video was made. Check them out, and be sure to subscribe, so you catch my VOLUME III Collection video!
Adam's Lights even in the mid 80s, the County I live still had just a single dome light on top of the police cars. It was a light with 4 sealed beam bulbs that rotated. A few cars had a single strobe under a big dome on top. Good memories. 👍🏻
The time, effort and money that would go into purchasing, restoring and creating a working setup would be phenomenal. Huge amount of respect man! Looks awesome, great job!
Thank you!! I have updated it since this video, and am working on making a new video. Make sure you subscribe so you get notified when the new video comes out!
I just bought a vintage fire truck, it has a federal signal twinsonic with red and white lenses. I absolutely love these vintage light bars. Awesome collection!
Great collection. I love the FS Twinsonic, the granddaddy of all cool lightbars, and the all rotators (and flashers) Aerodynic, probably the coolest of 'm all. Thanks for your videos.
ONE- O-FOUR thank you so much!! I will have a ton of new videos coming out in 2020, so make sure you subscribe to the channel, so you can see all of my new bars that I’ve gotten since this video was made!! Thanks for watching!
In 2000 I was issued a new Silverado from the BNSF. I lived in Chicago so I had to go to Fort Worth TX to pick it up and drive it home. Since I was an Inspector I was able to request certain add ons. One was a roof light. Choices were all minibars at that time. But. I found a never installed FSC 47" Turbobeam. I slipped the guy a 20 and with in 4 hours I had it mounted along with wigwags and a sw200 4 switch panel. I was the only guy on the BNSF Chicago yards to have a full size bar. Not like it mattered to anyone lol. I was the only one who cared lol
Glad to hear I inspired you to collect! In fact, it was watching someone else's RUclips collection video that inspired me to start collecting too. Good luck! Thanks for watching!
@@AdamsLights yes a lot. For the sake of analog lights and rotators, not necessarily cops btw, the good ones, yes for sure but a lot of them have used those light bars against its own citizens without reason ( to say the least ) and each and everyone one of these pieces have its own histories and stories...just to let registered...thx again
I agree! The light output of these bars is insane. They are also really easy to work on, which is why all of the custom bars I've made, are almost all MX bars. Thanks for watching!
Nice collection. That Whelen 8000 is a classic and rare strobe. One of the cities I grew up in back in the 80s, the police used those in the red/blue (which the lens looked green) config. so seeing the one you have really took me back. If you get another TwinSonic you should build the CTS edition. Probably one of the most widely known TS's ever produced. A number of years ago I restored a StreetHawk which had originally come with clear domes, red filters, a center grille for the speaker, red and blue flashers opposite corners). I bought the conversion kit from FS ($150) to make it an all light. The one lights I'd love to add as the final hurrah for it are the intersection lights. I'd read that those were an optional upgrade to the StreetHawk, but I'd never seen departments use them. They were low profile that utilized the space between the alley's and the lower corner flashers. I used to set it up like Minneapolis PD had (red domes, clear center, red front flash, center TDs, rear red/blue corner flash, and center amber) Inboard rotators and center rotator were fast, outboard were slower). I like the osilaser, but never got it sadly. I still have this light bar and hope to have it displaying in my garage again. The other lightbar that I sadly got rid of was my fave. A late 70s Aerodynic "Rosco" lightbar. I didn't have the alleys or the end caps for it that had the clear cut out, but it had the red/blue domes and corner flashers. These old ones were driven by a belt and the belt is hard to come by even back in the 90s when I owned it. Also if you looked on the rotators they have a clock dial on the main gear with 12, 3, 6, and 9 stamped so you can create custom flash by adjusting he offsets. That was a neat feature. Sadly when I was working on it, I cut wires I should not have and since they were daisy chained to the bulbs, it became a paperweight. I used to obsess over the Galls and Striker's catalogs for this gear. Starting in the 90s when hologens and strobes were the major choices. Since the push for LEDs (to cut down on power/amp usage and MPGs) they are harder to find. My dream was to take part in the Police Car Owners of America and display my police car. Which I was a member of, and have known about since the late 90s. I had a 2000 Crown Vic Police Interceptor that I was restoring, but there was an electrical fire somewhere and it destroyed the interior and actually separated the windshield into chunks. That's how hot it was inside apparently.
Thanks for the comment! Sadly, the Whelen 8000 bar is a dud... The cruise lights are the only lights that work on the bar- the strobe power supplies seems to be done. I am doing some work in California sometime this year, and will hope to come into possession of some older CA-spec bars. That really is a missing piece in my collection. I also have an all-light Streethawk that hasn't been seen by the RUclips community yet- Amber/Green. Stay tuned for that one! :)
Ahh that's a drag. You know ebay might be a good source to find working strobe PSUs for that 8000. Nice man. Yeah those were so ubiquitous in CA that there probably is a surplus of them. When I moved to TX from MN this year, I left my StreetHawk behind. Made me very sad. But my father probably will be making a trip in a couple of months so he'll bring it. BTW did you get those Tripp Lite power supplies from Amazon or Tripp Lite? What was the cost for the 60 amp?
I actually got all of the Tripp Lite PSU's from eBay... and they were pretty pricey.... somewhere in the neighborhood of $300-400. BUT, I've found a PowerMax 100 amp model on Amazon for $189, and it's a champ. The ONLY thing I don't like about it is that it has no power switch- so you have to unplug it to power it off.... but otherwise, it handles the bars like a pro.
Adam Ogden Wow that is over the top for those units. You probably can retro fit a 20amp 12v switch to that PowerMax. In fact I'd use the same switches as are used in the light controllers if you have a spare. I have 6 from an old switch box I had taken apart.
Yes, I have all of the power supplies on separate power switches on the wall anyways, then I used SW300 switch boxes to power the lights themselves. Not having it's own power switch isn't that big a deal, it's just the only major difference I noticed between the PM and the Tripp Lite.
By far my favorite of all time is and will always be the Code 3 MX7000. I think those sweeping intersection lights do it for me, haha. Code 3 360 is right there with it, tho!! Hoping to find one for myself one day.
Loved the vid! Rotators are definitely my favorite. The Fed Signal the NC Highway patrol used to run was always my favorite to see on the roads... well until it was behind me when i turned 16! I was on a fire dept for many years and i always loved it when you flipped the switch and seeing the 2 center clear oscillators leading the way....
Whelen Edges xenon strobes with halogen alley and flashers are my favorite. Those are what I grew up on and saw mostly during my childhood in the 2000’s Whelen Edge 9000.
@@AdamsLights do they still use them any there? I saw an ambulance with xenon strobes a month ago and was shocked, because that’s the first time I’ve seen them on an emergency vehicle in 8 years or so. They’re super bright too even with the red filter, maybe even brighter than LED, it just doesn’t seem to send the light as physically far, for some reason. And can you still find xenon strobes online or anything?
That is pretty awesome! I love light bars, and think there are some really unique ones out there! Thank you for repairing those, putting them on display, and sharing them all. Would've been cool to see them all lit up at once! Of course, could be seizure inducing and a little rough on your electric bill :) Cheers mate!
As soon as LED bars came out everyone one of those became instantly obsolete. The new LED bars with very good computer controlled patterns are 1000x brighter in the day light than any of those old rotates with sealed beams or halogen lamps that came out in the 80's. Plus LED bars are 1/2 the price,essentially never burn out, and have an insanely low power draw.
I've seen old halogen rotator bars for like $300. These new LED bars, try about $3,000 to $6,000. I have a bunch from my work in my garage and can't sell them here as blue is LE. I wish I lived closer to NY because I know I could sell them easy for volunteer firemen.
You are all correct! The LED's are definitely brighter and more efficient, but the right flash pattern is key. They do tend to be too bright, and too fast sometimes.
Thanks for watching!!! If you scroll down in the comments, I've mentioned a couple different times where you can find the lightbars... it's actually easier than you think! Stay tuned for future videos, and be sure to subscribe!
You would be surprised at how many there are just lying around on top of police cars! crazy to think people just leave them there. All you need is a spanner and to be fast at running.
It does! It doesn't help that I live in the Desert in Western US, so in the summer its an easy 120* in the garage anyways! This project definitely gets more attention in the winter :)
My now forgotten dream was that one day they would invent a rotator that could also flash like a strobe light while rotating, and could do it in any colour or combination of colours. Something that would cause as many traffic accidents as it prevented. We truly witnessed the death of a golden age with the invention of the boring old LED.
I see what you did there.... Check out my other videos, and be sure to subscribe so you get notified when the new stuff comes out! Thanks for watching!
You guys in the US always had the best mechanical lightbars and rotating beacons compared to our boring British simple single rotators. It's all LED now..still cant beat a mechanical system for looks 😁
You're right on both accounts.... the old stuff is WAY cooler than the LED stuff..... AND, the British lights ARE super boring :). Thanks for watching!!
@@AdamsLights we did have a moment in rhe late 80's when we tried and went for light bars and now also have decent warble and wail sirens like you guys. 😁
Thanks! I'm not a fan of having multiple of the same bar, but mine are different enough that I am OK with it. I have 4 MX7000 bars for instance, but none of them are even remotely the same. Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe for future videos, which will be released soon!!
The Code 3 mx7000 custom is hands down my all times favorite barlight etc. The Illinois State Police used to use them in the mid nineties. Great lights.
Wow impressive! I really like the old lights turning, It Looks more professional and chill if they turn like that, not just flashing so fast like the new ones do! Really nice collection, now you just need the cars and vehicles corresponding to those lights :-)
Thanks, I really appreciate the compliment! I'm not so much a 'car guy', so I'll probably never have the corresponding cars, but I know a lot of guys who do! Thanks again for watching, and feel free to subscribe to get updated when I release the next video, which will have a ton of new, never-before-seen videos!
Ha!! Fortunately, my collection was in the garage with no windows- so unless I had the big roll-up door open, they didn't see anything..... BUT.... when I did have it open, the neighborhood looked like a crime scene, with lights reflecting everywhere :)
I used several of them and the one I liked the best was the Code 3 SD with the Federal Twin Sonic coming in 2nd. Used the Smith and Wesson too but didn't care for it. Obvious they didn't get a cop to help with the design for those rectangular headlight bulbs took up unnecessary space that could've been used to spread out the rotators and better position the mirrors which I would've put a diamond shaped one in between and would not have offset them.
I love them all but IMHO my favorite was the FS AeroDynic bar. We used these bars almost exclusively throughout the 80's (Fire Dept). We also had a few Whelen 8000 series strobe bars. They made a profound "whooping" strobe sound but they weren't near as effective as our halogen rotating AeroDynic bars.
Yeah, the Aero's are cool. I would love to add another one to my collection, preferably a 10-rotator 'all light' version. I do actually have a second one that has been added to the collection, LAPD style. Be sure to subscribe to see my next video, with all of the new bars I have. Thanks fo watching!!
Thank you! I love the vintage stuff too... almost every one of these bars sparks a memory of some sort, from lights I saw growing up, to movie scenes. Thanks for watching!!
Fantastic video. Lots of work went into putting everything together. My favorite are the ones at 17:07. I wonder who uses the beautiful blue and green combination?
Thank you! To my knowledge, nobody uses a blue/green lightbar. I just happened to like the color combination, so I created it myself, when I built the custom all-flasher lightbar. I'm glad you like it! Make sure you check out the other videos on my page- I've almost DOUBLED my collection since this video was made several years ago! Thank you for watching!!
I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one got bite by the light bar bug. Not many are. I get looked at like I'm a nut. Are there any on line groups I can join. I'm clueless about them got 3 bars so far. I have so many questions about them . My 3 are not power. No clue even how to wire them up . Money tight so I can't spend much on them . So if anyone knows any groups on line let me know
Hey Nathan, there are TONS of online resources, as well as probably 50 different Facebook pages dedicated to buy/sell/trade of lightbars. I have addressed this in previous comments in this thread, so feel free to check it out.
+Adam Ogden I've found me a streethawk for a good deal with red and blue beacon with an unusual Amber strobe light on rear what year run would this be and it has 2 clear alley side lights?
LOVE your collection!!!! I'm really interested in learning how to restore the old mx-7000 I just recently acquired. It's not in terrible shape, but it needs cleaned up. And some oxidation removed. I was also looking into maybe converting it to LED as I'm planning to use it on my POV. I'm subscribing to see more!
I wish rotating lightbars like this were being used so sad those LEDs are so bright people keep crashing into police cars or other people like with the rotating their more dull in light reflection...I love these
Actually I find LED's are not as bright as rotating halogen lights. When driving with red/blue halogens the light reflects back from street signs a lot brighter then LEDs do. I think it's the speed that LEDs flash that attracts the attention, not the brightness.. And I have been driving with halogens and now LEDS for a tad over 30 years..
Adam's Lights I’ve got an 8 head 24” Neobe and it’s heavy at 24”. Can imagine a full-size. Bulletproof, though! Looking forward to seeing your video. I haven’t found any videos of the LED versions.
Yeah, I am a fan of the Vision, too! Since this video was made, I have also acquired one of the Vision SL's. Go check out that video too, it's dope! Thanks for watching!!
I think the reason why all these cool old-school lights are gone. It's simply money. Old lights were expensive to manufacture due to mechanical parts that could easily or in time get broken. Either the gears or electric motor will stall. So they moved over to led-bars, no mechanical parts, cheap to manufacture and very long life led-lights so you don't have to change expensive bulbs.
FS Premium Vision/Vector Smart Bar was one of the best the CHP ever mounted on their cars. It was highly visible and attention getting miles away. The only item the CHP did wrong, was not keep their pod lenses polished and clean. When the sun UV rays frosted the lens, the light output sucked so bad, it was difficult to tell if the CHP had warning lights on at all! Two common detailing supplies from an auto parts store would have preserved the pods, but they let them frost out.
I think the primary issue was the sheer size of the fleet.... when you have thousands of cars statewide, they are never going to take the time to polish 7 lenses per car. That's like bringing the car into the maintenance shop, just to squeegee the windshield. Not really worth the effort and time.
man thats so awesome im currently setting up my daily driver with full led emergency lights and i have gone with full amber light bar just ordered a new led light bar i have all undercover red n blues in front and rear windows + amber undercovers in front and back just tryna source some under car leds now i have posted video on here and my tiktok
Nice collection. Nothing beats the pop-flash of incadesent rotating lights, but they have such a horrendous power draw. Strobes are a close second. Now, if someone would come up with high power, truly rotating, LED light bars, it'd be perfect.
If you pay attention in movies and television especially cinema they will almost always use rotation or late model rotator style police lighing. Something about film and it's frame rate Something like 32 frames a second can't capture the strobes and LED lighting very well, if at all. Also it is more cinematic, when they make the streets wet and shoot from above durning night. The effect Is spot on and more artistic for those scenes etc. (Think terminator 2) towards the end.
Actually, I am friends with a guy who runs a movie car company. They typically match the model to the era of the movie being shot, so that everything looks as close to realistic as possible. You are right that frame rates have a hard time capturing strobes, but they can add the flashes in post-production as well.
Thanks for subscribing!! Green is typically used for private security companies- but personally, I just like making fun and random color combinations, just for fun! Thanks for watching!!
I love rotators. I love how they throw light around. They also have such personality. I also love your collection.
Thank you!!
Rotators are my favorite too
rotators are satisfying
Theres only 2 vehicles in my city that still have rotators
@@Bobman4000 obviously rotators are from the past now emergency vehicles use LED Lights such as the federal Signal SLR
Man this brings back some memories. The very first patrol car I ever drove was decked with an MX7000 with the rear traffic advisor. I loved it. I loved I could flash to the rear without blinding people to the front while working traffic enforcement (think DWI/DUI roadside tests), plus the oscillating lower outer lights were simply amazing at clearing traffic at intersections. Up until the day I first used that light bar, I had been on a fire department, and always had issues with having to wait for people to realize I wasn't just sitting there with my lights flashing just because I wanted to look pretty. Those oscillating outer lights on the lower deck really are missed in modern light bars.
Yeah, the MX was easily the best rotator bar made, it had a TON of features, and it's super easy to work on... which is why I have more MX bars in my collection than anything else.
Thanks for watching!
There’s currently a 2002 Crown-Victoria in my town’s fleet. It’s awesome! Has the black steel wheels and chrome center caps. Running a huge blue Federal Signal rotating bar. It’s awesome seeing the old girl running code 3!
The Rusty Hubcap US that’s really cool! It’s hard to find anybody running the old halogen stuff anymore. Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe for future videos!!
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Those rotating light bars make me happy!! They need to bring them back!!
I agree!! Thanks for watching!
My dept. still uses a couple Edge 9000. They are the only "old" ones we have and they honestly are my favorite.
Nothing wrong with a working 9000!!
Old School Cop lights right there, from the 70s Heavendies, 80s ladies, and the 90s naughties 😂😂😂, and early to mid 2000s mountain. I think either 2010 to 2012 and after started the LED
cop lights. I miss the old cop lights not to mention the Crown Vics
That's quite the poem you wrote there...
i love the fact federal signal brought back the vision with LED lights and rotators.. i swear i sent them an email once asking if it was possible to combine LED and rotator technologys and then they came out with the vision SLR years afterwards.
Yeah they are pretty cool. Honestly, they sent super bright during the day, because the light head aperture isn’t very big- but the technology is definitely very cool.
Squad 51, KMG-365.
Halogen lightbars have so much more class and 'authority power' than strobes and Toys 'R' Us LEDs!
I agree, I like the old stuff.
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They are less visible though
This is an amazing collection! The halogen rotators take me back to my childhood. The sealed beam dual lamp rotators are my favorite!
Thanks Chris!!! I don't know if you've checked out my other videos, but I've added quite a few since this video was made. Check them out, and be sure to subscribe, so you catch my VOLUME III Collection video!
Adam's Lights even in the mid 80s, the County I live still had just a single dome light on top of the police cars. It was a light with 4 sealed beam bulbs that rotated. A few cars had a single strobe under a big dome on top. Good memories. 👍🏻
Great set up! I miss those old big noisy rigs.
Thanks! I agree! Make sure you check out some of my newer videos- I've gotten a lot of new toys!
Real cool collection. Love bars with the intersections. Thanks for sharing 😎
Thanks for watching!
I remember watching this video wayyy back! it’s so nostalgic to rewatch!
Come a long way since then!
The time, effort and money that would go into purchasing, restoring and creating a working setup would be phenomenal. Huge amount of respect man! Looks awesome, great job!
Thanks man, thank you so much!!
Wonderful collection! I'm always looking to build my collection up with some of these...I've got quit a few now but never enough, haha.
Thank you!! I have updated it since this video, and am working on making a new video. Make sure you subscribe so you get notified when the new video comes out!
I just bought a vintage fire truck, it has a federal signal twinsonic with red and white lenses. I absolutely love these vintage light bars. Awesome collection!
HighVoltageMayhem thanks for watching! Enjoy your new toy!!
2nd lightbar is my all time favorite. Every LAPD car had those in the 90's. Still looks modern.
Yeah, the Jetstream is a cool bar. Fun Fact: In my collection, that is the ONLY bar I have with a siren speaker in it. Thanks for watching!!
Love the old school twinsonic model 12 federal signal, reminds me of the show CHiPs
Me too! I wish I had an actual CTS, but I definitely love this bar as it is!
Great collection. I love the FS Twinsonic, the granddaddy of all cool lightbars, and the all rotators (and flashers) Aerodynic, probably the coolest of 'm all. Thanks for your videos.
ONE- O-FOUR thank you so much!! I will have a ton of new videos coming out in 2020, so make sure you subscribe to the channel, so you can see all of my new bars that I’ve gotten since this video was made!! Thanks for watching!
This brings me back when I was a fireman, good old days 1980s
I really do love the older bars. I do have a new newer LED bars, but the old stuff is what I find most enjoyable. Thank you for watching!
Awesome, i like how you restored the strobe lights, they are brighter and llook brand new
Thanks!
@@AdamsLights your welcome
just spent 30 minutes watching lightsabers on RUclips.... not even mad....
haha, I feel the same way- I do it all the time! Thanks for watching!
I am just because of the music, but the video was great.
@@AdamsLights if your in the market for a tomar blade red and blue let me know i have a amber one im keeping but will sell the other
In 2000 I was issued a new Silverado from the BNSF. I lived in Chicago so I had to go to Fort Worth TX to pick it up and drive it home. Since I was an Inspector I was able to request certain add ons. One was a roof light. Choices were all minibars at that time. But. I found a never installed FSC 47" Turbobeam.
I slipped the guy a 20 and with in 4 hours I had it mounted along with wigwags and a sw200 4 switch panel. I was the only guy on the BNSF Chicago yards to have a full size bar. Not like it mattered to anyone lol. I was the only one who cared lol
It's the little victories that count! That full sized TurboBeam is NO JOKE with the light output! Thanks for watching!
Where's the Grand Finale with all the light bars turned on. Lol
Haha, good point! I'll make sure I include that on the next video release! :)
Might not be a good idea guy might get seizures or something
Timothy Bates or, you drain the towns power plant
Really nice,love the music,I'm going to start collecting these lights! They are really cool.
Glad to hear I inspired you to collect! In fact, it was watching someone else's RUclips collection video that inspired me to start collecting too. Good luck!
Thanks for watching!
Love your vid, used it to recreate old light bars for my custom LEGO fire trucks.
Very cool!
Old School.
.simple wig-wag headlights cut thru better than most other lights,at a distance,way underrated for simple switch
Agreed!
9:38 caprices...so cool...thanks for maintaining history my friend
Glad you enjoyed it
@@AdamsLights yes a lot. For the sake of analog lights and rotators, not necessarily cops btw, the good ones, yes for sure but a lot of them have used those light bars against its own citizens without reason ( to say the least ) and each and everyone one of these pieces have its own histories and stories...just to let registered...thx again
Wow, those are some amazing light bars. What an amazing collection! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! Be sure to subscribe so you know when Volume 3 comes out!!
That looping music is stuck in my head
Thank you? You're welcome? I'm not really sure if you are saying that's a good thing or a bad thing :)
+Adam Ogden I'd like to know what that music is so I can use it for my own video projects!
I own an MX7000 as a photo prop.
+tacoholic2006 I made it myself using Garageband.
Sounds very good. I'm listening to it as I go about my business (doing laundry).
Adam Ogden sounds like it deserves to be on some highway patrol documentary of the early 90s
Code 3 MX7000 bars are the best built lightbars. I've owned over 40+ mx7000 bars and loved each one. Love the green mx7000 you have
I agree! The light output of these bars is insane. They are also really easy to work on, which is why all of the custom bars I've made, are almost all MX bars.
Thanks for watching!
Nice collection. That Whelen 8000 is a classic and rare strobe. One of the cities I grew up in back in the 80s, the police used those in the red/blue (which the lens looked green) config. so seeing the one you have really took me back. If you get another TwinSonic you should build the CTS edition. Probably one of the most widely known TS's ever produced.
A number of years ago I restored a StreetHawk which had originally come with clear domes, red filters, a center grille for the speaker, red and blue flashers opposite corners). I bought the conversion kit from FS ($150) to make it an all light. The one lights I'd love to add as the final hurrah for it are the intersection lights. I'd read that those were an optional upgrade to the StreetHawk, but I'd never seen departments use them. They were low profile that utilized the space between the alley's and the lower corner flashers. I used to set it up like Minneapolis PD had (red domes, clear center, red front flash, center TDs, rear red/blue corner flash, and center amber) Inboard rotators and center rotator were fast, outboard were slower). I like the osilaser, but never got it sadly. I still have this light bar and hope to have it displaying in my garage again.
The other lightbar that I sadly got rid of was my fave. A late 70s Aerodynic "Rosco" lightbar. I didn't have the alleys or the end caps for it that had the clear cut out, but it had the red/blue domes and corner flashers. These old ones were driven by a belt and the belt is hard to come by even back in the 90s when I owned it. Also if you looked on the rotators they have a clock dial on the main gear with 12, 3, 6, and 9 stamped so you can create custom flash by adjusting he offsets. That was a neat feature. Sadly when I was working on it, I cut wires I should not have and since they were daisy chained to the bulbs, it became a paperweight.
I used to obsess over the Galls and Striker's catalogs for this gear. Starting in the 90s when hologens and strobes were the major choices. Since the push for LEDs (to cut down on power/amp usage and MPGs) they are harder to find.
My dream was to take part in the Police Car Owners of America and display my police car. Which I was a member of, and have known about since the late 90s. I had a 2000 Crown Vic Police Interceptor that I was restoring, but there was an electrical fire somewhere and it destroyed the interior and actually separated the windshield into chunks. That's how hot it was inside apparently.
Thanks for the comment! Sadly, the Whelen 8000 bar is a dud... The cruise lights are the only lights that work on the bar- the strobe power supplies seems to be done.
I am doing some work in California sometime this year, and will hope to come into possession of some older CA-spec bars. That really is a missing piece in my collection.
I also have an all-light Streethawk that hasn't been seen by the RUclips community yet- Amber/Green. Stay tuned for that one! :)
Ahh that's a drag. You know ebay might be a good source to find working strobe PSUs for that 8000.
Nice man. Yeah those were so ubiquitous in CA that there probably is a surplus of them.
When I moved to TX from MN this year, I left my StreetHawk behind. Made me very sad. But my father probably will be making a trip in a couple of months so he'll bring it.
BTW did you get those Tripp Lite power supplies from Amazon or Tripp Lite? What was the cost for the 60 amp?
I actually got all of the Tripp Lite PSU's from eBay... and they were pretty pricey.... somewhere in the neighborhood of $300-400. BUT, I've found a PowerMax 100 amp model on Amazon for $189, and it's a champ. The ONLY thing I don't like about it is that it has no power switch- so you have to unplug it to power it off.... but otherwise, it handles the bars like a pro.
Adam Ogden Wow that is over the top for those units. You probably can retro fit a 20amp 12v switch to that PowerMax. In fact I'd use the same switches as are used in the light controllers if you have a spare. I have 6 from an old switch box I had taken apart.
Yes, I have all of the power supplies on separate power switches on the wall anyways, then I used SW300 switch boxes to power the lights themselves. Not having it's own power switch isn't that big a deal, it's just the only major difference I noticed between the PM and the Tripp Lite.
Not sure why but I have always loved the jetsonic.
Its a great bar, no doubt!
I agree
You do need a Grand Finale where they All Lite up..... that would be.... AWESOME !!!!!
I don't think my power company is ready for that :) BUT..... if you check out my video called "Flashing People on a Sunday", it's pretty darn close!
By far my favorite of all time is and will always be the Code 3 MX7000. I think those sweeping intersection lights do it for me, haha.
Code 3 360 is right there with it, tho!! Hoping to find one for myself one day.
Thanks for watching! I agree, the MX7000 bars had some serious light output.
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Loved the vid! Rotators are definitely my favorite. The Fed Signal the NC Highway patrol used to run was always my favorite to see on the roads... well until it was behind me when i turned 16! I was on a fire dept for many years and i always loved it when you flipped the switch and seeing the 2 center clear oscillators leading the way....
Thanks for watching! I'm definitely a fan of the old-school stuff too. Something about the way the rotators sweep the entire area just looks cool.
Whelen Edges xenon strobes with halogen alley and flashers are my favorite. Those are what I grew up on and saw mostly during my childhood in the 2000’s Whelen Edge 9000.
Me too! Both my local city and county PD's have 9000 strobes. A sound you can never forget....
@@AdamsLights do they still use them any there? I saw an ambulance with xenon strobes a month ago and was shocked, because that’s the first time I’ve seen them on an emergency vehicle in 8 years or so. They’re super bright too even with the red filter, maybe even brighter than LED, it just doesn’t seem to send the light as physically far, for some reason. And can you still find xenon strobes online or anything?
This guy could have one hell of a party
i AM the Party! :)
Adam Ogden oh snappp
That is pretty awesome! I love light bars, and think there are some really unique ones out there! Thank you for repairing those, putting them on display, and sharing them all. Would've been cool to see them all lit up at once! Of course, could be seizure inducing and a little rough on your electric bill :) Cheers mate!
Thanks! Make sure you check out some of my newer videos- I've gotten a lot of new toys! And check out the video where they ARE all lit up at once! :)
Adam's Lights right on! I’ll check them out! Thanks for sharing your collection! What a fun collection. Tad bit jealous here.
As soon as LED bars came out everyone one of those became instantly obsolete. The new LED bars with very good computer controlled patterns are 1000x brighter in the day light than any of those old rotates with sealed beams or halogen lamps that came out in the 80's. Plus LED bars are 1/2 the price,essentially never burn out, and have an insanely low power draw.
I've seen old halogen rotator bars for like $300. These new LED bars, try about $3,000 to $6,000. I have a bunch from my work in my garage and can't sell them here as blue is LE. I wish I lived closer to NY because I know I could sell them easy for volunteer firemen.
You are all correct! The LED's are definitely brighter and more efficient, but the right flash pattern is key. They do tend to be too bright, and too fast sometimes.
I love that one with the rotators and wigwags and oscillating and stuff
Me too!
Man I'm so jealous, I want to start a collection now. Wouldn't even know where to get light bars
Thanks for watching!!! If you scroll down in the comments, I've mentioned a couple different times where you can find the lightbars... it's actually easier than you think!
Stay tuned for future videos, and be sure to subscribe!
You would be surprised at how many there are just lying around on top of police cars! crazy to think people just leave them there. All you need is a spanner and to be fast at running.
I'm sure that room gets nice and toasty after a showcase, lol
It does! It doesn't help that I live in the Desert in Western US, so in the summer its an easy 120* in the garage anyways! This project definitely gets more attention in the winter :)
The Edge 1000 B-link is my favorite, looks really nice to me.
Thanks! Make sure you check out some of my newer videos- I've gotten a lot of new toys!
ThecTwinSonic is the most simple and effective design. Miami-Dade PD had them in red-red on every Plymouth Fury back in late 1970's.
Sometimes, simple is better.
...i like how you make them work right next to the water heater, it gives it a new meaning of the live and death risks of this days
I have high confidence :)
I love the twinsonic light bar from Federal Signal with the cali steadyburn
Check out my newer videos that show that, except it was actually a Code 3 SD.
My now forgotten dream was that one day they would invent a rotator that could also flash like a strobe light while rotating, and could do it in any colour or combination of colours.
Something that would cause as many traffic accidents as it prevented.
We truly witnessed the death of a golden age with the invention of the boring old LED.
There is definitely something nostalgic about all those old moving parts, that's for sure!
This was de-lightfull to see. Thanks for this I hope you post more.
I see what you did there....
Check out my other videos, and be sure to subscribe so you get notified when the new stuff comes out!
Thanks for watching!
You guys in the US always had the best mechanical lightbars and rotating beacons compared to our boring British simple single rotators.
It's all LED now..still cant beat a mechanical system for looks 😁
You're right on both accounts.... the old stuff is WAY cooler than the LED stuff..... AND, the British lights ARE super boring :). Thanks for watching!!
@@AdamsLights we did have a moment in rhe late 80's when we tried and went for light bars and now also have decent warble and wail sirens like you guys. 😁
Very pretty! Lifetime liked flashing beacons! ))))
Thanks! Make sure you check out some of my newer videos- I've gotten a lot of new toys!
@@AdamsLights Oh! You haven't looked here for a long time! My comment is 5 years ago!)))
idk why but i found this weirdly satisfying
Glad that I could fill a void you didn't know you had :)
Awesome man, i LOVE lights! You got it on a whole nutha level. Love it, nice vid!
Thanks a lot!! Make sure you subscribe so you can catch my next video... I have 10-15 new bars since my last video!
I love the MX7000, LP6000, streethawk, jetstream, and the Whelen Edge 9000! Beautiful bars man. Love your collection.
Thanks! I'm not a fan of having multiple of the same bar, but mine are different enough that I am OK with it. I have 4 MX7000 bars for instance, but none of them are even remotely the same. Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe for future videos, which will be released soon!!
also by the way, will you get a LAPD aerodynic? Or any CA spec lightbars. CA specs are my favorites
@@sirendude I actually DO have some CA Spec bars now, which you will see in the new videos coming out soon. Stay tuned!
The Code 3 mx7000 custom is hands down my all times favorite barlight etc. The Illinois State Police used to use them in the mid nineties. Great lights.
Yeah, I love the MX7000 bar. It’s SUPER easy to work on and customize, and it’s SO damn bright- definitely one of the best rotator bars ever made.
Oh man...what a collection. I just love lightbars.
Thanks for watching!! Don't forget to subscribe... I've added quite a few new bars since my last video, you'll want to be sure you catch the update!
Very nice setup and collection 👍
Thanks! 👍
im quite impressed with that twinsonic model 12 fed signal. Because it is the very first one I have ever seen that wasn't completely useless
I definitely love my Twin too! It's hard to find a Red/Blue combo of the Twinsonics these days. Thanks for watching!
Wow impressive! I really like the old lights turning, It Looks more professional and chill if they turn like that, not just flashing so fast like the new ones do! Really nice collection, now you just need the cars and vehicles corresponding to those lights :-)
Thanks, I really appreciate the compliment! I'm not so much a 'car guy', so I'll probably never have the corresponding cars, but I know a lot of guys who do! Thanks again for watching, and feel free to subscribe to get updated when I release the next video, which will have a ton of new, never-before-seen videos!
Great video man!!!! You have an awesome collection! Just received a FREE Whelen freedom 1000! Red and blue with the alley lights!!!
Thank you!! Be sure to subscribe so that you get to see all of the new videos coming out in 2020, with SEVERAL new bars not-yet-seen!
Thanks for this video now I know the name of my favorite lightbar.
oh yeah, which one?
MX7000 lightbar the one with the blue and red domes not the transparent ones. I also now know the name of my second fave bar the fed signal jetsonic.
@@AdamsLights and the twinsonic model 12
Imagine what the neighbors think when they see all the lights in the house off except one room with a bunch of flashes going off
Ha!! Fortunately, my collection was in the garage with no windows- so unless I had the big roll-up door open, they didn't see anything..... BUT.... when I did have it open, the neighborhood looked like a crime scene, with lights reflecting everywhere :)
I used several of them and the one I liked the best was the Code 3 SD with the Federal Twin Sonic coming in 2nd. Used the Smith and Wesson too but didn't care for it. Obvious they didn't get a cop to help with the design for those rectangular headlight bulbs took up unnecessary space that could've been used to spread out the rotators and better position the mirrors which I would've put a diamond shaped one in between and would not have offset them.
Thanks for watching!
the light bar under your very first one was on my dads first ever police cruiser
i remember seeing it light up for the firs time like it was yesterday
That's awesome! Funny how we remember little things like that. Thanks for watching!!
I love them all but IMHO my favorite was the FS AeroDynic bar. We used these bars almost exclusively throughout the 80's (Fire Dept). We also had a few Whelen 8000 series strobe bars. They made a profound "whooping" strobe sound but they weren't near as effective as our halogen rotating AeroDynic bars.
Yeah, the Aero's are cool. I would love to add another one to my collection, preferably a 10-rotator 'all light' version. I do actually have a second one that has been added to the collection, LAPD style. Be sure to subscribe to see my next video, with all of the new bars I have.
Thanks fo watching!!
I would spend another 30 minutes watching this..... Great Job 👍👍
Thank you! Be on the lookout for a new video with even MORE bars!
Awesome collection! I really enjoyed this video very much!
Thanks a lot!! Make sure to subscribe to get notified when I post Volume 3!
Very cool collection. Takes me back. Lol
Thank you! I love the vintage stuff too... almost every one of these bars sparks a memory of some sort, from lights I saw growing up, to movie scenes. Thanks for watching!!
I love Lightbars and sirens and other warning related type light or bell
Cool, me too!
Fantastic video. Lots of work went into putting everything together. My favorite are the ones at 17:07. I wonder who uses the beautiful blue and green combination?
Thank you! To my knowledge, nobody uses a blue/green lightbar. I just happened to like the color combination, so I created it myself, when I built the custom all-flasher lightbar. I'm glad you like it!
Make sure you check out the other videos on my page- I've almost DOUBLED my collection since this video was made several years ago! Thank you for watching!!
Lol definitely an interesting recommendation, I actually find this as really cool!
Thanks for watching!
@@AdamsLights you're welcome! :)
Nice music- kind of has an early 70’s Traffic/Steve Winwood vibe to it. Think “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys”.
Haha thanks, I composed it myself :)
I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one got bite by the light bar bug. Not many are. I get looked at like I'm a nut. Are there any on line groups I can join. I'm clueless about them got 3 bars so far. I have so many questions about them . My 3 are not power. No clue even how to wire them up . Money tight so I can't spend much on them . So if anyone knows any groups on line let me know
Hey Nathan, there are TONS of online resources, as well as probably 50 different Facebook pages dedicated to buy/sell/trade of lightbars. I have addressed this in previous comments in this thread, so feel free to check it out.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. 🚔🚨
Thanks for watching!
Awesome collection :O
Thank you, and thanks for watching! Be sure to subscribe to see more as they come out!
Green and blue is so amazing I love your collection
thanks!
One question I am looking for an old lightbar 70s-90s do you know where I can get one and how to find one cheap?
+Adam Ogden a twin social 12
I actually address that question on my FacebookPage, Adam's Lights! Feel free to go check it out!
facebook.com/adamslights
+Adam Ogden I've found me a streethawk for a good deal with red and blue beacon with an unusual Amber strobe light on rear what year run would this be and it has 2 clear alley side lights?
I like how you put the rotator in the grille of the lp6000 I did the same with my mx7000
Thanks! Always like doing something a little different!
LOVE your collection!!!! I'm really interested in learning how to restore the old mx-7000 I just recently acquired. It's not in terrible shape, but it needs cleaned up. And some oxidation removed. I was also looking into maybe converting it to LED as I'm planning to use it on my POV. I'm subscribing to see more!
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Watching your video makes me want to show my license & registration...
Step out of the car, please.....
I wish rotating lightbars like this were being used so sad those LEDs are so bright people keep crashing into police cars or other people like with the rotating their more dull in light reflection...I love these
The Rusty Hubcap thanks!!!
Actually I find LED's are not as bright as rotating halogen lights. When driving with red/blue halogens the light reflects back from street signs a lot brighter then LEDs do. I think it's the speed that LEDs flash that attracts the attention, not the brightness.. And I have been driving with halogens and now LEDS for a tad over 30 years..
The Rusty Hubcap US you right rotators are nice but leda are economic and too much bright
Leds are used to being screen as a car or truck is racing to a accident or worse
The Rusty Hubcap US lights being bright aren't the issue
I’ve seen the 930N from Tomar. Def. my favorite.
They are cool bars, for sure! I now have an LED version of the 930, with a video to come out shortly. But MANNNN are they heavy!
Adam's Lights I’ve got an 8 head 24” Neobe and it’s heavy at 24”. Can imagine a full-size. Bulletproof, though! Looking forward to seeing your video. I haven’t found any videos of the LED versions.
My favorite are the premium vision federal 🔥 those are the best in my opinion
Yeah, I am a fan of the Vision, too! Since this video was made, I have also acquired one of the Vision SL's. Go check out that video too, it's dope! Thanks for watching!!
I like the first one because is blue in color and blue is my favourite color
I'm a fan of the blue as well!
I think the reason why all these cool old-school lights are gone. It's simply money. Old lights were expensive to manufacture due to mechanical parts that could easily or in time get broken. Either the gears or electric motor will stall. So they moved over to led-bars, no mechanical parts, cheap to manufacture and very long life led-lights so you don't have to change expensive bulbs.
I think a part of it is that, but it's also things like power consumption and aerodynamics.
Should put a mirrored sheet on the whole back wall for that extra sparkle. I like the collection.
Not a bad idea! I'll certainly give it some thought when the collection comes out of retirement!
Thanks for watching!
Adam I'am Your Newest Subscriber Great Videos
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My country uses yellow siren rotarors only for dumpsters and stuff like that
cool, thanks for watching!
I really like the jetsonic federal signal
It's a classic, for sure!
FS Premium Vision/Vector Smart Bar was one of the best the CHP ever mounted on their cars. It was highly visible and attention getting miles away. The only item the CHP did wrong, was not keep their pod lenses polished and clean. When the sun UV rays frosted the lens, the light output sucked so bad, it was difficult to tell if the CHP had warning lights on at all! Two common detailing supplies from an auto parts store would have preserved the pods, but they let them frost out.
I think the primary issue was the sheer size of the fleet.... when you have thousands of cars statewide, they are never going to take the time to polish 7 lenses per car. That's like bringing the car into the maintenance shop, just to squeegee the windshield. Not really worth the effort and time.
18:16 Turbo beam is my favorite one for light trucks
Yeah, I really liked that bar. I had to give it back to the guy who gave it to me, but this one had some serious flash power.
14:38 my absolute favorite light bar
Thank you!
man thats so awesome im currently setting up my daily driver with full led emergency lights and i have gone with full amber light bar just ordered a new led light bar i have all undercover red n blues in front and rear windows + amber undercovers in front and back just tryna source some under car leds now i have posted video on here and my tiktok
What do you do, that you need those lights?
I like the old school lights rather than the New one's
No disagreements here!
This made me smile
Glad I could help! :)
Nice collection. Nothing beats the pop-flash of incadesent rotating lights, but they have such a horrendous power draw. Strobes are a close second. Now, if someone would come up with high power, truly rotating, LED light bars, it'd be perfect.
No kidding, I totally agree!
Wow! Pretty Cool, I remember some of these light bars, evolution I guess ,one's now days are to bright, get blinded just going by.
Thank you! Yeah, they have definitely come a long way in the last couple of decades!
Imagine opening up a nightclub full of lightbars. :))
HA! I live in Vegas.... I think there are enough nightclubs here for now ;)
@@AdamsLights Nice. 💄🔊😎
If you pay attention in movies and television especially cinema they will almost always use rotation or late model rotator style police lighing. Something about film and it's frame rate Something like 32 frames a second can't capture the strobes and LED lighting very well, if at all. Also it is more cinematic, when they make the streets wet and shoot from above durning night. The effect Is spot on and more artistic for those scenes etc. (Think terminator 2) towards the end.
Actually, I am friends with a guy who runs a movie car company. They typically match the model to the era of the movie being shot, so that everything looks as close to realistic as possible. You are right that frame rates have a hard time capturing strobes, but they can add the flashes in post-production as well.
The first light bar was my favourite
The streethawk is a great bar! Wait until you see the NEWEST streethawk I have (not shown in this video).
That's aerodynic would be absolutely perfect w the lapd red/blue domes n steady burns
Check out my new videos, I DO have an LAPD version with the steady red!
Awsome ! I subbed today 💕 Green light is for What??😯😁
13:00 MY FAVORITE NUMBERR 💕🚒💞
Thanks for subscribing!! Green is typically used for private security companies- but personally, I just like making fun and random color combinations, just for fun! Thanks for watching!!