Whelen 295SLSA6 User Manual

Automotive: Sirens/Switches

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ENGINEERING COMPANY INC.
51 Winthrop Road	Installation Guide:
Chester, Connecticut 06412-0684	295SLS*6 Siren Amplifier
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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	ACTIVATION	OF	THIS
referred to when performing maintenance and/or reinstallation of this	SIREN MAY	DAMAGE
product.	UNPROTECTED		EARS!

	• FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND		CAUTION
			Loud siren noise can cause
	INSTRUCTIONS COULD RESULT IN DAMAGE TO THE PRODUCT OR
		Wear	hearing damage and/or loss.
	VEHICLE AND/OR SERIOUS INJURY TO YOU AND YOUR PASSENGERS!		Refer to OSHA Section 1910.95 prior
		Protection!
			to putting ANY siren into service!

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

©2008 Whelen Engineering Company Inc.

Form No.14130E (031610)

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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

•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

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:	Fig. 1
Console manufacturers offer mounting kits that
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.

2.0Wiring:

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

WARNING: All customer supplied wires		TABLE 1			Wire Gauge / AWG
that connect to the positive terminal of
				12	10	8	6	4	2
the battery must be sized to supply at											showninfeet.
BREAKERS WITH THIS PRODUCT!		AMPS/Draw	50	6	10	15.5	25	39.5	63
least 125% of the maximum operating			20	15.5	24.5	39	62	98.5	157
current and FUSED at the battery to			30	10.5	16.5	26	41.5	66	104
carry that load. DO NOT USE CIRCUIT			40	7.5	12.5	19.5	31	49.5	78.5
		Current									Distanceis
			60	5	8	13	20.5	33	52.5
1.	Splice the 2 RED (Power) wires		70	4.5	7	11	17.5	28	45
	together, then extend this single RED		80	4	6	10	15.5	24.5	39
	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.

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.

WIRING		HORN
	HORNTO BUTTON	RELAY +12V
DIAGRAM				VEHICLE	HORN
Fig. 2
20 AMP OUTPUT	11	WHITE	CUTWIRE	100W	SPEAKER #1
20 AMP OUTPUT	10	GREY

20 AMP OUTPUT

15 AMP OUTPUT

15 AMP OUTPUT

15 AMP OUTPUT

15 AMP OUTPUT

A m p l i f i e r

SIREN INPUT CONNECTOR

12 YELLOW

8 ORANGE

7 BROWN

3BLUE

6BLUE

9VIOLET

5BLACK

2BLACK

4RED

			100W SPEAKER #2
		TO2-WAY RADIO SPEAKER
Siren interruption
Ground to activate.

	AUX INPUT	n	1 RED
		re
	AUX OUTPUT NC		20 AMP FUSE
		i
	AUX OUTPUT NO	S
			RED

AUX INPUT	Both RED Wires: 60 AMP FUSE					BATTERY	CHASSIS
		RED					GROUND
AUX OUTPUT NC					Auxilliary Enable
		CONN.INPUT	3	WHT/GRN
	POS.-3				(Optional)
AUX OUTPUT NO
			2	WHT/ORG	“Siren In Use" Icon
					Input on Video Camera
			1	WHT/YEL	Backlight
					Control Voltage (+12 VDC)

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