Whelen RP13AA User Manual

ENGINEERING COMPANY INC.

51 Winthrop Road Chester, Connecticut 06412-0684 Phone: (860) 526-9504

2008 - 2011 Chevy Tahoe

Installation Guide:

Outer Edge® Lightbar

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

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.

• 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 that 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.

• This product contains either strobe light(s), halogen light(s), high-intensity LEDs or a combination of these lights. Do not stare directly into these lights. Momentary blindness and/or eye damage could result.

• Use only soap and water to clean the outer lens. Use of other chemicals could result in premature lens cracking (crazing) and discoloration. Lenses in this condition have significantly reduced effectiveness and should be replaced immediately. Inspect and operate this product regularly to confirm its proper operation and mounting condition. Do not use a pressure washer to clean this product.

• 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!

Automotive: Lightbars

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

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IMPORTANT! The lightbar should be a minimum of 16" from radio antennas!

Installation:

1. First, place the lightbar onto the mounting location. The trimmed edge of the lightbar should be flush with the bottom edge and each outer edge of the "D" Pillar (Fig. 1).

2. Mark off and drill a 3/4” wire entry hole into the "D" pillar using the measurements shown (Fig. 2). Be very careful not to damage any

components behind the “D” Pillar.

Measure 2-1/4” from the leading edge and 4” from the bottom edge of the “D” Pillar. The wire entry hole will be located beneath the bottom pod of the lightbar.

3. Remove the 2 screws holding on the taillight (which overlaps the “D” Pillar) and pull the taillight out.

4. Install the wiring and make all the wiring connections (See wiring diagrams) then reinstall the taillight.

Mounting the housings:

1. Place the lightbar onto its mounting location on the vehicle to be sure the lightheads have a sufficient service loop for lighthead replacement or service. Once mounted, the

housing is not easily removed.

2. Using isopropyl alcohol (70%), clean the vehicle where it will come in contact with the mounting tape then prime those areas with the supplied 3M Keel Primer. Ready the leaders on the pre applied tape. Be sure the leaders are protruding from under the housing so that you can pull the tape backing off once the housing is in place.

3. There is a driver and passenger side housing. Be sure to mount them on the correct sides. Firmly hold the lightbar onto its final mounting position. While pressing the whole housing against the “D” Pillar, (being very careful not to move the housing) slowly remove the tape backing from the top and leading edge of the housing and then from the rear.

4. With the tape backing removed, press the housing firmly against the mounting surface where the tape is, to secure it.

WARNING! The adhesive used in this procedure is fully bonded after 72 hours @ 70°F (21°C). During this period, do not expose the lights to any unnecessary force, such as a high-pressure car wash.

IMPORTANT! It is the responsibility of the installation technician to make sure that the installation and operation of this product will not interfere with or compromise the operation or efficiency of any vehicle equipment!

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 BREAKERS WITH THIS PRODUCT

CAUTION! DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THESE LED’S WHILE THEY ARE ON. MOMENTARY BLINDNESS AND/OR EYE DAMAGE COULD RESULT!

at the battery to carry that load. DO NOT USE CIRCUIT

IMPORTANT WARNING!

Operation:

Scan-Lock™

This feature allows you to program a selected flash pattern into a lighthead. The lighthead must be activated to use Scanlock. The Scanlock™ wire is WHITE/VIOLET on the LINZ6™ and WHITE on the Vertex™.

To cycle forward through patterns apply power to the Scanlock wire for less than 1 second and release.

To cycle backward through patterns apply power to the Scanlock wire for over 1 second and release. When the desired pattern is displayed, allow it to run for more than 5 seconds. The lighthead will now display this pattern when active.

To reset to the factory default pattern Turn off power. Apply power to the Scanlock wire while turning power back on.

Sync

The SYNC wire is GREY on the LINZ6™ and GREEN on the Vertex™. For SYNC to operate, you must connect the SYNC wires together. If you do not want to use the sync feature, cap the sync wires.

To sync two lightheads, configure both lightheads to display the same Phase 1 pattern. With the power off, connect the SYNC wires from each lighthead together. When the lightheads are activated, their patterns will be synchronized. To configure lightheads to alternate their patterns, advance the pattern of that lighthead to the Phase 2 mode of the current pattern. The same concept applies to Phases 3 & 4.

Wire Color Function

White/Violet Scan-Lock™ Grey (Connects to other Sync wires) SYNC Black (12V) or Black/White (24V) To Ground

LINZ6™

BOLDNOTE: = California Title XIII Compliant Pattern = SYNC PatternItalic

1.SignalAlert™75

2.SignalAlert75

3.SignalAlert75

4.SignalAlert75

5.CometFlash®75

6.CometFlash75

7.CometFlash75

8.CometFlash75

9.DoubleFlash75

10.DoubleFlash75

11.DoubleFlash75

12.DoubleFlash75

13.SingleFlash75

14.SingleFlash75

15.SingleFlash75

16.SingleFlash75

17.ComAlert™75

18.ComAlert75

19.ComAlert75

20.ComAlert75

21.LongBurst™75

22.LongBurst75

23.LongBurst75

Split Lighthead Operation:

PHASE 1

LEFT

side lights up and

with side.alternates

ONONOFF

RIGHT

ONOFF

OFF

Phase 1 P2

hase

Phase 1 P2

hase

RIGHT

VERTEX™

Lamp Driver

Phase Operation

Phase 1 flashes with Phase 1simultaneously Phase 2 flashes with 2

1 with 2

alternates

Phase Phase

SYNC Patterns

1. SignalAlert™75

SignalAlert 75

CometFlash®75

CometFlash 75

DoubleFlash 75

SingleFlash 75

P1hase Phase Phase Phase Phase Phase Phase Phase

LED Color

Red/Wht (two-color split models)

Wht/Red (single-color split models)

Flash Patterns:

24.LongBurst75

25.PingPong™75

26.PingPong75

27.PingPong75

28.PingPong75

29.SSNF75

30.SSNF75

31.SingleFlash 60

32.SingleFlash 60 SingleFlash

33. 90 SingleFlash 0

34. 9

35.SingleFlash 120

36.SingleFlash 120

SingleFlash 300

37.

38.SingleFlash 300 DoubleFlash 150

39.

40.DoubleFlash 150

41.ComAlert™ 150

42.ComAlert™ 150

43.ActionFlash™ 50

44.ActionFlash™ 50

45.ActionFlash™ 150

46.ActionFlash™ 150

PHASE 2

side lights up and

LEFT

with side.alternates

OFF

ON OFF

ONONOFF

Phases3&4arevisually indistinguishable.

BOTH sides flash together

RED

- Power

BLK

- Ground

GRN

- SYNC

WHT

- Scan-Lock

simultaneously

ComAlert™

ComAlert

10.

LongBurst™

11.

LongBurst

12.

PingPong™

13.

PingPong

14.

Non-SYNC Patterns

15.

SingleFlash 60

16.

SingleFlash 90

Phase Phase Phase Phase Phase Phase

hase

ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM

ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM

PHASE 3

(ON-OFF-ON).

OFF

(FUSE @ 3A)

(Connect to other Sync wires)

(FUSE @ 1A)

Phase

1 2 1 2 1 2

To +VBAT (Fuse@3amps)

47. ModuFlash™

48. ModuFlash™

49. DoubleFlash 120

50. DoubleFlash 120

51. PingPong™ 120

52. PingPong 120

53. TripleFlash™ 75

54. TripleFlash 75

55. TripleFlash 120

56. TripleFlash 120

57. SigAlert Cal.™

58. SigAlert Cal.

59. Action SF 60/120

60. Action SF 60/120

61. Action SF60/TF120

62. Action SF60/TF120

63. CalScan™

64. ActionScan™

65. SteadyFlash 60

66. SteadyFlash 75

67. SteadyFlash 90

68. SteadyFlash 120

69. Steady & Steady

BOTH sides flash together

SingleFlash 120

17.

SingleFlash 300

18.

DoubleFlash 150

19.

ComAlert 150

20.

ActionFlash™1

21.

ActionFlash 2

22.

ModuFlash™

23.

.ActionScan™

Steady

25.

ALT/SIM

PHASE 4

(OFF-ON-OFF).

OFF

ONON

OFF

ALT SIM

ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM ALT SIM

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