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Anybody seen these?; Cheap rotating beacon lights.
Topic Started: Dec 10 2012, 06:15 PM (497 Views)
Big D61

http://www.r2hobbies.com/rc-police-petrol-car-360-degree-rotation-led-light-cylinder.html
Looks like a great price compared to the others people find online.
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Nice find. I need to get some...
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Capt'n Cook
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Yeah, they are neat, and well priced...but ... Something about them (and I don't mean to offend anyone) some thing about them makes it look like a cheap toy. They have the right size and shape... They need to slow the blink down or something..
How is it that the $80 German ones look so sweet?
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Do they automatically cycle through all the different blink cycles, or can you choose one and leave it on that?
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If your a "scaler" you won't be happy, the just automatically cycle through the 5 different modes, I purchased the yellow light bar from them for like 12 bucks and it's enough for me to be happy.

you can check it out running here
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Thanks for the heads up, looks like the German ones are the best option now. I'm wondering if I can fit it's bulbs into the original DX beacon.
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Dec 14 2012, 12:06 AM
If your a "scaler" you won't be happy, the just automatically cycle through the 5 different modes, I purchased the yellow light bar from them for like 12 bucks and it's enough for me to be happy.
I'm not really a scaler either. I must say, the double yellow light bar looks really good. Much better than the stock sticker bar. There are one or two modes of blink that are cool... I'm sure an electronics savvy guy could switch that to a one mode blink.

Thanks for the video! I definitely like the 'bar' over the individual.
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nice so hard to find beacons for a good price, now that i figured out how to load pics (thanks to scalextreme0 i will try to upload my vid of the orange lights flashing, they work and look good and total cost for set up was like $10 cdn.
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Capt'n Cook
Dec 14 2012, 07:15 PM
I'm not really a scaler either. I must say, the double yellow light bar looks really good. Much better than the stock sticker bar. There are one or two modes of blink that are cool... I'm sure an electronics savvy guy could switch that to a one mode blink.

Thanks for the video! I definitely like the 'bar' over the individual.
When things warm back up I plan on painting or maybe using vinyl die to get the white plastics black. I'm not a huge fan of the white plastics I may also take out the uprights that lift the bar off the body (they are just separate stand offs).

I figured for the $12 it was worth trying over the $100+ stuff from germany.
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