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• Proper installation of this product requires the installer to have a good understanding of automotive electronics, systems and procedures.
• If mounting this product requires drilling holes, the installer MUST be sure that no vehicle components or other vital parts could be damaged by the drilling process. Check both sides of the mounting surface before drilling begins. Also de-burr any holes and remove any metal shards or remnants. Install grommets into all wire passage holes.
• If this product is mounted with tape or Velcro™, clean the mounting surface with a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and water and dry thoroughly.
• Do not install this product or route any wires in the deployment area of your air bag. Equipment mounted or located in the air bag deployment area will damage or reduce the effectiveness of the air bag, or become a projectile that could cause serious personal injury or death. Refer to your vehicle owners manual for the air bag deployment area. The User/Installer assumes full responsibility to determine proper mounting location, based on providing ultimate safety to all passengers inside the vehicle.
• For this product to operate at optimum efficiency, a good electrical connection to chassis ground must be made. The recommended procedure requires the product ground wire to be connected directly to the NEGATIVE (-) battery post.
• If this product uses a remote device to activate or control this product, make sure that this control is located in an area that allows both the vehicle and the control to be operated safely in any driving condition.
• Do not attempt to activate or control this device in a hazardous driving situation.
• This product contains either strobe light(s), halogen light(s), high-intensity LEDs or a combination of these lights. Do not stare directly into these lights. Momentary blindness and/or eye damage could result.
• Use only soap and water to clean the outer lens. Use of other chemicals could result in premature lens cracking (crazing) and discoloration. Lenses in this condition have significantly reduced effectiveness and should be replaced immediately. Inspect and operate this product regularly to confirm its proper operation and mounting condition. Do not use a pressure washer to clean this product.
• It is recommended that these instructions be stored in a safe place and referred to when performing maintenance and/or reinstallation of this product.
• FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS COULD RESULT IN DAMAGE TO THE PRODUCT OR VEHICLE AND/OR SERIOUS INJURY TO YOU AND YOUR PASSENGERS!

Mounting your Lightbar
Refer to the Lightbar mounting guide included with your lightbar.

Routing your Lightbar Cable(s)

1. To protect the headliner from damage caused by drilling the cable access hole through the vehicle roof, allow a 5” to 7” distance between roof and headliner by lowering the headliner before drilling.

2. Using a 1” hole saw, drill the cable access hole.
   Note: There may be a roof support member that spans the distance between the driver’s and passenger’s side. DO NOT DRILL THROUGH THIS MEMBER! Adjust the location until the hole can be drilled without contacting this support member.

3. Use a round file to smooth and de-burr the edges of the hole.

4. Insert a 1” grommet (user supplied) into the cable access hole.

5. Insert the cable(s) through the cable access hole into the vehicle. Use RTV silicone to weatherproof the access hole after the cable(s) are pulled completely into the vehicle.

6. Route the cable(s) down through the B-pillar. The cable(s) must make a 90° turn to enter the B-pillar. Although routing the cable in this manner may be difficult, this has been determined to be the best procedure. It is up to the installation technicians discretion whether to route the cable(s) as recommended or use an alternative route. Pull the full length of the cable(s) out of the hole at the base of the B-pillar (Fig. 1) and route towards your switch panel. Refer to the instructions
   included with your switches for switch wiring information.
   WARNING! The strobe light power supply is a high voltage device. Do not touch or remove the strobe tube assembly while in operation. Wait 10 minutes after disconnecting the unit from its power source before starting work or troubleshooting on power supply or system.

Control Cable: Extend the control cable to your switch panel and make the appropriate connections, using the information provided on Page 5. The control cable connects to your control head or switch box and is fused there. Typical fusing is 5 Amps. Applying +12 volts
to a control cable wire will activate its function.

BLUE - This wire activates the Rear Corner Strobes.
GREEN - This wire activates the Front Corner Strobes.
BLUE-WHITE - This wire activates the Rear Inboard Strobes.
GREEN-WHITE - This wire activates the Front Inboard Strobes.
BLUE-BLACK - This wire activates the Left Traffic Advisor.
GREEN-BLACK - This wire activates the Right Traffic Advisor.
WHITE - This wire activates the Driver-Side Alley Light (steady).
YELLOW - This wire activates the Passenger-Side Alley Light (steady).
WHITE-BLACK - This wire activates the Take-Down Lights (steady).
WHITE-BROWN - This wire activates the Rear LED’s (1 - 6).
WHITE-RED - This wire activates the Front LED’s (7 - 12).
WHITE-ORANGE - Auxiliary.
WHITE-YELLOW - This wire activates the Flashing Takedown Lights
WHITE-GREEN - This wire activates the Flashing Alley Lights.
WHITE-BLUE - This wire activates the Strobe Scan-Lock™.
WHITE-VIOLET - This wire activates the LED Scan-Lock™.
VIOLET - When applied to +12VDC, this will initiate low power operation of all strobes. Lightbar must be turned off, then on again to restart in high power.
NONE - This is the RFI shield drain wire and is connected to ground.

NOTE: Activating wires X & Y simultaneously will switch the strobe pattern from CometFlash® to LongBurst™.

Power Cable:
RED - Provides power for all strobe lamps. Connect to POSITIVE battery terminal (12 VDC) and fuse @ 40 amps AT THE BATTERY.
BLACK - Provides ground for all strobe lamps. Connect to chassis ground.
NONE - RFI shield drain. Connect to chassis ground.

Using Scan-Lock™
To cycle forward through all patterns:
Choose the Scan-Lock™ wire controlling the function you wish to change the flash pattern on and apply +12 volts to that wire for less than 1 second and release. This will change the pattern. Repeat to go to next pattern.

To choose a pattern:
While cycling through the patterns, when you find the pattern you want let it run for more than 5 seconds and it will lock in and become the default pattern.

To reset to the factory default pattern: 
Turn off the option you want to reset, apply +12 volts to the Scan-Lock function wire of that option then turn the option back on.

Available Scan-Lock™ Patterns:

Strobe Scan-Lock™ Patterns		LED Scan-Lock™ Patterns
CometFlash® 150	ModuFlash™	Front-Rear LED’s	RapidRate™ 50
TripleFlash™ 185	MicroBurst™ 2	ModuFlash™ ZigZag 1	SignalAlert™ 75 ZigZag 2
DoubleFlash 220	MicroBurst™ 3	CometFlash® 60	RapidRate™ 200
SingleFlash 480	LongBurst™	DoubleFlash 100	SimulBlast
ActionFlash™	ActionScan™	Signal Alert™ 60 Steady On	SingleFlash 240
		ZigZag Blast	Random Blast
		ActionFlash™

Troubleshooting
Your Patriot should now be fully operational. If your lightbar is not functioning properly, check your connections for the following:

• The positive wire (RED) is properly connected to the battery, by way of the user supplied fuse block

• A working fuse of the correct amperage (40 amp) is installed in the fuse block.

• The ground wire (BLACK) is properly connected to the factory ground. Be sure that the wire is fully grounded to this location.

• If all of these connections are good, contact your WFR for further assistance.   
  

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