Yep it has been, which leads to the saga of the Whelen LED lightbars at FS413......
They were bought new on V-133 (E413) and were some of the first generation Whelen LED bars. When we had the ALF rebuilt, ALF put new Tomar lightbars on it at our request. We originally planned to pay for it and ask for the Whelen bars back for V-114, but ALF just put the Tomar's on 133 at their cost, so I figured we would not get the bars. But I walked into my office at the hall one day and sitting in a couple of long boxes from ALF were these bars.
So I asked the shop to put them on V-114 to lower power draw by removing the rotating beacon lights on it and they did, which was what was on it the day it blew up. Well when 7308 came in there was an issue with the front main lightbar that was not working half the time and when it did run it was slow. So I asked if we could move the LED's off V-114 and put them on 7308, which the shop did.
So in 6 years these bars have been on 3 different engines in the County. I don't plan on asking for them back when 7308 leaves.
Shawn
[quote name='bigbadred411' post='285460' date='Feb 28 2009, 14:29 ']Was the lighting package changed/updated on E413B?[/quote]
They were bought new on V-133 (E413) and were some of the first generation Whelen LED bars. When we had the ALF rebuilt, ALF put new Tomar lightbars on it at our request. We originally planned to pay for it and ask for the Whelen bars back for V-114, but ALF just put the Tomar's on 133 at their cost, so I figured we would not get the bars. But I walked into my office at the hall one day and sitting in a couple of long boxes from ALF were these bars.
So I asked the shop to put them on V-114 to lower power draw by removing the rotating beacon lights on it and they did, which was what was on it the day it blew up. Well when 7308 came in there was an issue with the front main lightbar that was not working half the time and when it did run it was slow. So I asked if we could move the LED's off V-114 and put them on 7308, which the shop did.
So in 6 years these bars have been on 3 different engines in the County. I don't plan on asking for them back when 7308 leaves.
Shawn
[quote name='bigbadred411' post='285460' date='Feb 28 2009, 14:29 ']Was the lighting package changed/updated on E413B?[/quote]
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