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Pimp's Official Whacker Technologies Junior review

Postby Pimp » Wed 2-Apr-2008 01:11

A while back I received in some \"Junior\" lightheads from Herschel over at Whacker Technologies. I played with them on several occasions and I'm pretty impressed with their performance.

These lightheads are comparable in size to a Whelen TIR3, LXP LX3, 911EP Star, Bull, Nova, (insert your own of the 9,000 other 3-LED surface mount modules out there, here.) They are SAE certified. The color of the diodes is a nice and crisp red, as evident in the pictures. The wiring is fairly simple to follow. A traditional four wire setup for the lightheads includes power, ground, pattern, and sync. To sync these lightheads you must connect each lighthead's yellow wires together. To change patterns, apply the blue wire to the black wire for 1 second. The wiring was rather confusing at first but, I after reading both parts of the instructions it was understandable.

I was very impressed by the off-axis performance of these lights. I did receive the optional \"L\" brackets for mounting of the lighthead. These seem sturdy and simple to use (will update on that once I get them installed)

I hooked these up to a DC power supply in my office for bench testing. I left them running for 7 1/2 hours one day while synchronized. When I came back they were still going with no notable discoloration, dimness, heat buildup, or loss of sync. I was a little concerned of the unique flange and plastic tab system but, it shouldn't be a problem... (see pictures)

Final disposition: Pimp approves! 8)

Here's the goodies:

Right click, Save as <--- Much better quality or YouTube

Pictures to follow in next post.
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Postby winger » Wed 2-Apr-2008 01:24

Impressive little head indeed. Nice review Pimpala03 (as always) !
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Postby Victor185 » Wed 2-Apr-2008 01:47

Wow! The off-axis on that is AMAZING! Expecially for a TIR style lighthead. I'd like to see that next to a LIN3.

Yet another great review Pimp... Thanks!
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Postby PTR-Jason » Wed 2-Apr-2008 03:34

VERY Nice and I am amazed at the off axis!!!
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Postby Turbocharger » Wed 2-Apr-2008 03:54

Darn you Pimp, with your enticing light videos and such. :)

I'm blown away by that off-axis, might have to think about grabbing a couple Juniors myself sometime.
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Postby MarkClements » Wed 2-Apr-2008 07:51

Victor185 wrote:Wow! The off-axis on that is AMAZING! Expecially for a TIR style lighthead. I'd like to see that next to a LIN3.

Yet another great review Pimp... Thanks!


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Thanks pimp. I would not have thought about those for a client before. Now I can't wait to try them out for myself!
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Postby Geoff856 » Wed 2-Apr-2008 08:00

Good job Pimp!
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Postby kiwibagpiper » Wed 2-Apr-2008 08:40

Any idea for a price ? :D
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Postby fyredawg » Wed 2-Apr-2008 09:36

And I take it that these are NOT made in the USA.....
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Postby brewmeister » Wed 2-Apr-2008 14:51

Nice review, Pimp. I have some ideas running through my head... :twisted:


fyredawg wrote:And I take it that these are NOT made in the USA.....


Ugh...can we please take stuff like this out of threads? No offense, but this issue has been debated ad nauseum many times over. :?
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Postby rwo978 » Wed 2-Apr-2008 17:25

brewmeister wrote:Nice review, Pimp. I have some ideas running through my head... :twisted:


fyredawg wrote:And I take it that these are NOT made in the USA.....


Ugh...can we please take stuff like this out of threads? No offense, but this issue has been debated ad nauseum many times over. :?


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Postby snitchs99 » Wed 2-Apr-2008 18:40

Any idea if the Blue ones are just as bright and impressive?
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Postby illinoisemt » Wed 2-Apr-2008 18:48

and is it a dark blue or more of a tealish blue??
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Postby whackerUSA » Thu 3-Apr-2008 12:01

illinoisemt wrote:and is it a dark blue or more of a tealish blue??


The blue modules are a nice dark blue. The Junior lightheads are used in our Inciter EX line (Here is Pimp's review of the Inciter EX).

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Postby whackerUSA » Thu 3-Apr-2008 20:25

Thanks Pimp for adding the pic of the Inciter EXs.

Click here for the SAE report.
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Postby Geoff856 » Thu 3-Apr-2008 20:42

Very detailed report. Wish we could get these for all lights!
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Postby fyredawg » Wed 9-Apr-2008 09:50

rwo978 wrote:
brewmeister wrote:Nice review, Pimp. I have some ideas running through my head... :twisted:


fyredawg wrote:And I take it that these are NOT made in the USA.....


Ugh...can we please take stuff like this out of threads? No offense, but this issue has been debated ad nauseum many times over. :?


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Well I am sorry if I OFFENDED anybody, I just have a real problem with buying second rate products that are made overseas, and not putting money in our taxpaying citizens pockets. Living in a state that is home to a warning light/siren manufacturer that employees over 500 VERY happy employees is one of my reasons. That company gives a pretty hefty tax base to this state....not a foreign knock-off comapny. I wouldn't even take the time to open the box, never mind buy it or demo it. Once again, not trying to piss anybody off, or belabor the topic....just my thoughts.
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Postby noxin » Wed 9-Apr-2008 10:45

fyredawg wrote:
rwo978 wrote:
brewmeister wrote:Nice review, Pimp. I have some ideas running through my head... :twisted:


fyredawg wrote:And I take it that these are NOT made in the USA.....


Ugh...can we please take stuff like this out of threads? No offense, but this issue has been debated ad nauseum many times over. :?


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Well I am sorry if I OFFENDED anybody, I just have a real problem with buying second rate products that are made overseas, and not putting money in our taxpaying citizens pockets. Living in a state that is home to a warning light/siren manufacturer that employees over 500 VERY happy employees is one of my reasons. That company gives a pretty hefty tax base to this state....not a foreign knock-off comapny. I wouldn't even take the time to open the box, never mind buy it or demo it. Once again, not trying to piss anybody off, or belabor the topic....just my thoughts.


And you are absolutely entitled to that opinion, but instead of cluttering up a review thread for a product, put it into one of the dozen B&M US vs Foreign threads and keep the posts on-topic. If you have trouble remembering what the thread is about, look at the top of the page, it'll tell you.

Pimp: Great job as always on the review.
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