I'm half way through restoring my used MX7000.  Initially bought as an all-blue thoroughly used MX7000 for cheap.  It came with 5 rotators (three fast, two standard on the outsides), halogen takedowns, halogen alleys, halogen intersection sweeps, and a pair of halogen amber flashers on the rear.  I'm restoring it as a classic Red/Clear/Blue all-halogen MX7000 with brand-new upper domes, restored lower trays, a couple restored rotators to replace the non-working ones that came with the lightbar, and I'm going to add front red/blue flashers next to the takedowns.  The rear has a pair of amber flashers, not sure if I'll put in an ArrowStik, future goal will be to put in an LED-X ArrowStik, but then it wouldn't be all-halogen anymore.  An all-halogen ArrowStik will be too much for my powersupply

 

Anywho, here is a short video of the progress

 

 

What's left is the restored lower trays (still on the way) and to put in the front red/blue flashers.  So pretty! Love it!

What a beauty!

That's an amazing lightbar. I'm pretty glad to see there's someone else on the forums that has a proper interest in collecting and restoring, though.

For a second there, I thought you restored an old vehicle development part for IV. By the way, good work in restoring this. I can't wait to see what progress you make.

 

Cheers.

That's an amazing lightbar. I'm pretty glad to see there's someone else on the forums that has a proper interest in collecting and restoring, though.

 

You collect lightbars too? :)

That is just f&@king awesome, kudos to you man, great work!

You collect lightbars too? :)

If it weren't illegal in my country then I'd be collecting them for sure. I can and have designed and built my own flasher circuits and modules though, I actually posted a thread quite a long time ago about it. My first DIY flasher consisted of 30 blue LEDs on a fixed board with a solid unchangeable pattern. Since then, I've built a second flasher consisting of 30 blue and 30 red LEDs with 4 separate output channels so that you can change the patterns, the speed is also adjustable through adjusting a potentiometer and the whole circuit runs from a 9V battery.

 

http://youtu.be/1hsLPaoI4mg

 

Just excuse how brutally untidy the circuit is if you're able to see it in the video, back then my concern wasn't neatness but rather functionality. Right now its a bit of a white elephant though, I don't really play with it anymore. I have previously built a headlight flasher circuit with a relay being driven by a 555 IC but I think I'll actually get into building a separate relay switching circuit to change the patterns properly of the lights above sometime.

 

 

Very nice!  Electical engineer??  I used to fool around with a microcontroller back at school and use it to emulate lightbar flash patterns on a set of LEDs plugged into a breadboard.  Fun times lol

Very nice!  Electical engineer??  I used to fool around with a microcontroller back at school and use it to emulate lightbar flash patterns on a set of LEDs plugged into a breadboard.  Fun times lol

 

Nah, my current trade is Mechatronics but I'm still studying. I'll eventually move in the direction of a Millwright since there isn't a trade test for Mechatronics over here yet. 

 

I strongly agree with you though, getting to play around with microcontrollers is extremely fun(provided that you know what you're doing, lol). 

 

IMO, you shouldn't mix LEDs in a halogen bar like yours. If there's no alternative though, you could actually build a circuit to create a fading effect much like that of halogens. I've experimented with it in the past trying to replicate the Knight Rider fading effect and you can easily achieve it by adding a small circuit with a capacitor to each of the outputs. In your case, you'll already have the flasher to run the lights so all you'll have to do is make a few additional circuits(depending on how many modules you have) that you'll connect to the outputs of the flasher and then connect the lights up to the outputs of your additional circuit.

 

After a quick search for a Knight Rider schematic with the fading effect, I found this:

 

 

The capacitors beside the LEDs is what I'm referring to, but you'll have to probably calculate and experiment with capacitor values to get a decent fade, you'll also have to consider the amount of LEDs per module.

 

Just a suggestion though, its up to you whether or not you'd like to experiment with it.

 

Awesome lighting set up in your video, Kevin.

 

Cheers.