Whelen SL0TAAAA User Manual

®

ENGINEERING COMPANY INC.

51 Winthrop Road
Chester, Connecticut 06412-0684

Towman’s™ Liberty™ LED Lightbar

Installation Guide:

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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

©2005 Whelen Engineering Company Inc.
Form No.13990H (031110)

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Mounting

Surface

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

Mounting your Lightbar:

This lightbar mounts with 4 bolts affixed to mounting plates that slide into the track on the bottom of the
lighbar base. Figures 1 and 1a show how the slide bolt assembly slides into your lightbars base and mounts
onto the vehicle. Use an appropriately sized drill bit sized for a 1/2 - #13 X 2” bolt, to drill the mounting
holes. When securing the slide bolts to the bottom of the lightbar base, be sure the outside bolts are spaced
far enough apart and near enough to the ends of the vehicle roof.

Lightbar Cables:

This lightbar uses a 3-conductor cable for LEDs, a 6 conductor cable for HALOGEN and a 4-conductor
cable for BRAKE/TAIL lights. Extend the 3- and 6-conductor cables towards your switch panel. The
instructions included with your switches will provide switch wiring information. The 4-conductor cable
connects to your brake light. There are also 2 wires for Scan-Lock™ (flash pattern selection).

Refer to the parts illustration on the next page for wire designations and fusing.

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
that load. DO NOT USE CIRCUIT BREAKERS WITH THIS PRODUCT!

at the battery to carry

Scan-Lock™

In the Scan-Lock™ cable the RED wire controls the front LEDs and the GREEN wire controls the rear
LEDs. The LEDs must be on for flash pattern selection.

TO CHANGE PATTERNS: Apply +12 volts to the Scan-Lock™ wire for less than 1 second and release to
cycle forward to the next available pattern. Apply +12 volts to the the Scan-Lock™ wire for more than 1
second and release to cycle back to the previous pattern.

TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT PATTERN: When the
desired pattern is displayed, allow it to run for more than 5
seconds. The lighthead will now display this pattern when
initially activated.

TO RESTORE THE FACTORY DEFAULT PATTERN:

Apply +12 volts to the Scan-Lock™ wire. With Scan­Lock™ activated, turn power to the lighthead on. The
factory default pattern will now be displayed.

A normally open momentary switch can be used to control Scan-Lock operation.

IMPORTANT WARNING!

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

Fig. 1 Slide Bolt Mount:

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1. Remove one lightbar endcap.

Insert slide bolts into base,

2.

Mounting

Mounting

Surface

Surface

Slide Bolt
Mounting

slide them across to their mounting
position and secure with set screws.

Position the lightbar onto the

3.

vehicle and mark the four bolt hole
locations on the mounting surface.

Drill the four holes with an appropriately sized drill bit.4.

Replace end cap and insert bolts into their 4 mounting

5.

holes and secure the lightbar with supplied hardware.

Slide bolt slides

into base here.

Tighten both set

screws to secure

slide bolt to base.

Fig. 1a Inserting
Slide Bolt into
Base.

Available Flash Patterns:

1C: SignalAlert™ 3 cycles of 1A and 3 cycles of 1S
1A: SignalAlert™ 1 Alternates with 2
1S: SignalAlert™ 1 & 2 Simultaneous
2A: CometFlash® 1 Alternates with 2
2S: CometFlash® 1 & 2 Simultaneous

Servicin

our Li htbar

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g

Use the illustrations
shown if you need to
gain access to the
lightbar to service or
replace parts.

Installing a lighthead

into its housing

Without
Alley
Light

#6-32 x 5/8"

PPHMS

#6-32 ELASTIC

STOP NUT

2C: CometFlash® 3 cycles of 2A and 3 cycles of 2S
3A: DoubleFlash 1 Alternates with 2
3S: DoubleFlash 1 & 2 Simultaneous
3C: DoubleFlash 3 cycles of 3A and 3 cycles of 3S
4A: SingleFlash 1 Alternates with 2
4S: SingleFlash 1 & 2 Simultaneous

Installing Lens and Lighthead
Housing into extrusion

Lens

fits

here

Insert the tabs on the lighthead housing,
into the channels in the extrusion.

With
Alley
Light

#6x5/8"PPH
PLAST-LOC

4C: SingleFlash 3 cycles of 4A and 3 cycles of 4S
5: SteadyFlash 1 & 2 Steady / 3 & 4 SingleFlash / SIM
6: Steady 1, 2, 3 & 4 Steady
Steady: Full power 1 second, then slow ramp to 40

Top and bottom of extrusion
secure to Support Bracket.

SUPPORT
BRACKET

Installing Corner Linear-LED®

Lighthead into extrusion

Insert the tabs on the lighthead housing,

into the channels in the extrusion.

Endcap: Lighthead and Gasket

Place the endcap gasket onto the endcap matching up all the tabs and holes.

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