NYPD PA300 Demo and History 

Great work!

I have 2 of these in my collection. A normal PA300 NYPD and a newer PA300 Series NYPD.

I hope you do a tour of your entire collection & also a separate FS Vista video. They're very versatile & modular. I have halogen and strobe models and even some with 5mm LEDs on the lower level and couple with the bright 9 diode LED flashers. I've also got some with the front-facing oscillator in the middle dome. The only feature I don't have on any of them are the small cruise lights that could be mounted in the corners. I have domes in clear, red, blue, & amber, but not green or purple & I'm don't know if they made those. The Vista is really special to me because it was my first lightbar & it's the reason I became a firefighter. I bought an old cop car that had a Vista on it & I assumed everything was disconnected & I'd be taking it off soon. When I picked up the vehicle, EVERYTHING still worked!!! The siren, lightbar with red outer domes, Whelen SlimLighter dash light, wig-wags, & 6 strobe bulbs in the head/tail/reverse lights were all still hooked up & this fact was not in the auction description. Only about 1 percent of vehicles listed with that company were still intact & always had a disclaimer that everything would have to be disconnected before you picked it up if you were not representing an emergency agency. Boy did I luck out! The lightbar has two center sections & is almost fully populated. It's only missing 4 take-downs & has room for one more light on the ends of the bottom rows where I'd like to put in turn signals. I took out the Lexan inside & surrounding the prisoner partition, but I left the rest of it in-place to act as a roll bar because the car didn't have side airbags or stability control. Fortunately, I was able to move the partition back an inch to get the seat to recline one more notch for a comfortable driving position. Driving it home on the highway was so much fun. It was a newer generation than my last car & had a much smoother ride. The best part was that everyone got out of my way in the left lane. It was a blast driving it around town for a few weeks, but a nice cop informed me that I couldn't drive it with the red domes on it. I put some orange plastic wrapping over them temporarily until I found clear domes. I made the lower level flashers amber & the traffic advisor partially red & just used them on my construction job or during heavy snow. I was really itching to drive with the lights & siren on, but I was a good boy & didn't. Before getting this car, somebody at work told me I should volunteer at the fire department with him & become Fire Police because I always set up cones in the street, chocked the truck tires, & was safety conscious. That was in the back of my mind for a couple years & was reignited when I got the cop car. Unfortunately, I found out I couldn't use the siren, red lights, wig-wags, or headlight strobes responding to calls, so I put blue lenses on the halogen rotators & the flashers. I was really lucky that my SlimLighter (the only one of the four variants made) allowed the LED board to be removed & replaced with a different color. I swapped the red LEDs for blue & that greatly improved my response with people pulling over much quicker than when the only lights facing the front were in the lightbar. I quickly fell in love with doing the more interesting firefighter duties on-scene instead of just traffic. I did Firefighter 1, but stayed Exterior, then became a driver. 11 years later, I still frequently set up cones & can direct traffic on calls if I'm not pumping.

The Wail sounds very similar to the Tomar 948 wail.

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Is there a way to rewire a regular pa300 to get the yelp on the horn ring?

Shidd we have this on our pumper