Whelen 295SLSA6 User Manual

ENGINEERING COMPANY INC.

51 Winthrop Road Chester, Connecticut 06412-0684

295SLS*6 Siren Amplifier

Installation Guide:

Phone: (860) 526-9504 Fax: (860) 526-4078 Internet: www.whelen.com Sales e-mail: autosale@whelen.com Canadian Sales e-mail: canadiansales@whelen.com Customer Service e-mail: custserv@whelen.com

DANGER! Sirens produce extremely loud emergency warning tones! Exposure to these tones without

proper and adequate hearing protection, could cause ear damage and/or hearing loss! The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (www.osha.gov) provides information necessary to determine safe exposure times in Occupational Noise Exposure Section 1910.95. Until you have determined the safe exposure times for your specific application, operators and anyone else in the immediate vicinity should be required to wear an approved hearing protection device. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THIS RECOMMENDATION COULD CAUSE HEARING LOSS!

Safety First

This document provides all the necessary information to allow your Whelen product to be properly and safely installed. Before beginning the installation and/or operation of your new product, the installation technician and operator must read this manual completely. Important information is contained herein that could prevent serious injury or damage.

• Proper installation of this product requires the installer to have a good understanding of automotive electronics, systems and procedures.

• Failure to use specified installation parts and/or hardware will void the product warranty!

• If mounting this product requires drilling holes, the installer MUST be sure that no vehicle components or other vital parts could be damaged by the drilling process. Check both sides of the mounting surface before drilling begins. Also de-burr any holes and remove any metal shards or remnants. Install grommets into all wire passage holes.

• If this manual states that this product may be mounted with suction cups, magnets, tape or Velcro®, clean the mounting surface with a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and water and dry thoroughly.

• Do not install this product or route any wires in the deployment area of your air bag. Equipment mounted or located in the air bag deployment area will damage or reduce the effectiveness of the air bag, or become a projectile that could cause serious personal injury or death. Refer to your vehicle owner’s manual for the air bag deployment area. The User/Installer assumes full responsibility to determine proper mounting location, based on providing ultimate safety to all passengers inside the vehicle.

• For this product to operate at optimum efficiency, a good electrical connection to chassis ground must be made. The recommended procedure requires the product ground wire to be connected directly to the NEGATIVE (-) battery post.

• If this product uses a remote device to activate or control this product, make sure this control is located in an area that allows both the vehicle and the control to be operated safely in any driving condition. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ACTIVATE OR CONTROL THIS DEVICE IN A HAZARDOUS DRIVING SITUATION.

• It is recommended that these instructions be stored in a safe place and referred to when performing maintenance and/or reinstallation of this product.

• FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS COULD RESULT IN DAMAGE TO THE PRODUCT OR VEHICLE AND/OR SERIOUS INJURY TO YOU AND YOUR PASSENGERS!

ACTIVATION OF THIS SIREN MAY DAMAGE UNPROTECTED EARS!

CAUTION

Loud siren noise can cause hearing damage and/or loss.

Wear

Refer to OSHA Section 1910.95 prior

Protection!

to putting ANY siren into service!

Automotive: Sirens/Switches

For warranty information regarding this product, visit www.whelen.com/warranty

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Congratulations on selecting the 295SLS-Series Siren. This series offers a unique collection of features designed to allow the user to customize the operation of this siren to suit their individual needs. Features include:

• Programmable Power Distribution Switches

• Power to drive two, 100-Watt Speakers

• Scan-Lock™ Power Distribution & Siren Tone Programing

• Siren Interruption Control

• High and Low Voltage Shutdown

• Program the Siren Tone and the Override Tone of any Rotary switch position

• Enabling or Disabling Auxiliary Siren from the power distribution control switches

• Power distribution control switch type selection (push on push off, momentary, flashing, timed output)

• Auxiliary Input Control

• Hands-Free Operation

• Horn Ring Transfer

• Simulated mechanical Siren Tones

• Speaker Diagnostics

• “Siren In Use” Output

• LED Backlighting

1.0 Mounting:

This siren is designed to be mounted directly onto the dash or other surface through the use of a bail strap mounting bracket. The unit may also be mounted into your vehicle’s console (if so equipped).

WARNING: Regardless of the style selected, be sure to observe the air bag warning on the cover of this manual.

WARNING: Mounting this unit will require drilling. It is absolutely necessary to make sure that no other vehicle components could be damaged in the process. Check both sides of the mounting surface before starting. If damage is likely, select a different location.

1.1 Bail Strap Mount:

1. Position bail strap in selected mounting location

and drill mounting holes, then secure the bail strap to the vehicle.

2. Secure the siren to the bail strap as

shown. Tighten the acorn nuts firmly.

1.2 Console Mount:

Console manufacturers offer mounting kits that

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include all the necessary hardware and brackets required to mount this unit into their console. The console mount brackets are secured onto the unit in the same way. Please refer to the manual included with your console.

1.3 Microphone Clip:

A microphone clip is included with this product.

WARNING: Refer to the Air Bag Warning before installing this clip.

2.0 Wiring:

2.1 Siren Input Connector - RED: Power - BLACK: Ground

WARNING: All customer supplied wires that connect to the positive terminal of the battery must be sized to supply at least 125% of the maximum operating current and FUSED

at the battery to carry that load. DO NOT USE CIRCUIT BREAKERS WITH THIS PRODUCT!

1. Splice the 2 RED (Power) wires

together, then extend this single RED wire toward the vehicle battery. Splice the 2 BLACK (Ground) wires together and extend this single BLACK wire toward the vehicle battery. To pass the RED and BLACK wires through, you may have to drill a hole in the firewall. Insert a grommet to protect the wires.

2. Route the RED and BLACK wires along the factory harness towards the

battery and install a fuse block (user supplied) on the end of the RED wire.

Remove fuse from fuse block before connecting any wires to battery.

3. Connect fuse block wire to POSITIVE terminal on battery. There must not be

more than 2 feet of wire between fuse block and battery. The wire between the

4. fuse and battery is “unprotected”, do not allow it to chafe and short to ground.

Connect the BLACK wire to the factory chassis ground.

ORANGE, YELLOW & BROWN - Speaker Wires

1. Route the ORANGE, YELLOW and BROWN wires toward vehicle siren

speakers, along factory wire harness and through firewall at the same point as the RED and BLACK wires.

TABLE 1

30 40 50 60 70

Current Draw / AMPS

Wire Gauge / AWG

24.5

15.5

10.5

16.5

7.5

12.5 10

6 5

8 7

4.5 6 10 15.5 24.5

396298.5 26

41.5

49.5

19.5

39.5

15.5

20.5

17.5

15720 104

78.5 63

52.5

33 28

45 39

• Harmonically-rich, composite Airhorn Tones

• Title 13-Compliant Profiles

• Non-destructive Short Circuit Protection

• Meets Class A Sound Requirements

• External Back-light Control

• Radio Repeat

• Copy one units configuration to another unit

• Easy reset to default settings

• Power Distribution fuses included

2. Connect the YELLOW wire to the POSITIVE terminal on SPEAKER #1 and the ORANGE wire to the POSITIVE terminal on SPEAKER #2. NOTE: For single speaker installations use the YELLOW wire and cap the ORANGE wire.

3. Connect BROWN wire to NEGATIVE connection on speakers #1 & 2.

WHITE & GREY - Horn Relay Wires:

1. Route WHITE and GREY wires along factory wire harness and through firewall at the same point as the RED and BLACK wires.

2. Route WHITE and GREY wires to vehicle’s horn relay. If possible, follow the factory wire harness to this relay.

3. Locate the wire that connects the vehicle horn to the horn relay and cut it.

4. Connect the WHITE wire to the wire coming from the horn relay.

5. Connect the GREY wire to the wire coming from the horn.

Two BLUE wires - Radio Rebroadcast (optional):

The two remaining BLUE wires are used to connect your two-way radio’s external speaker for radio rebroadcast (optional connection).

Note: If your remote speaker is amplified (speaker has a power amp circuit), radio rebroadcast will not work and should not be used.

1. Locate the 2 wires that connect the external speaker to the 2-way radio, cut

one of them and splice one of the BLUE wires into this circuit.

2. Cut the remaining speaker wire and splice the other BLUE wire into this circuit.

VIOLET - Siren Interruption:

Grounding the VIOLET wire will deactivate the siren. The siren can be programmed to reactivate the tones by 2 different methods (See section 6.8) This wire doesn’t

affect HORN or MAN push button operations.

HORN

WIRING DIAGRAM

BUTTON

TO HORN

RELAY

+12V

Fig. 2

CUT WIRE

Siren interruption Ground to activate.

BATTERY

Auxilliary Enable (

)

Optional

“Siren In Use" Icon Input on Video Camera

Backlight Control Voltage (+12 VDC)

Distance is shown in feet.

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20 AMP OUTPUT

15 AMP OUTPUT

AUX INPUT

AUX OUTPUT NC

AUX OUTPUT NO

AUX INPUT

AUX OUTPUT NC

AUX OUTPUT NO

11 WHITE

10 GREY

12 YELLOW

8 ORANGE

7 BROWN

3 BLUE

6 BLUE

9 VIOLET

SIREN INPUT CONNECTOR

5 BLACK

2 BLACK

4 RED

1 RED

20 AMP FUSE

Siren Amplifier

RED

Both RED Wires: 60 AMP FUSE

RED

3 WHT/GRN

2 WHT/ORG

3-POS.

INPUT CONN.

1 WHT/YEL

VEHICLE

100W

RADIO

TO 2-WAY

CHASSIS GROUND

HORN

SPEAKER

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