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Bobcat UV34 side by side machines apparently. Sure. Why not? Got a brand new Bobcat UV34 here,
side by side with a little dumping bed in the back. This is owned by a particular township that
uses it for weed spraying abatement. Runs around through neighborhoods with a tank in the back,
a powered tank for spraying weeds and taking care of the turf on all the different areas, and I guess
the vehicles were not respecting its presence enough, so we needed to get some lighting on it.
Customer request was amber and white on all four corners and something on the roof. So what did
we do? Well what you're looking at is a 23-inch Whelen Mini bar on the roof there. That's mounted
with the permanent mount and we extended the wiring down into the front to a switch.
We used the included rubberized feet that came with the bar to mount it to the plastic roof.
In front of that lower, we have three-inch SoundOff Signal mpower in amber-white.
There's a pair of those right on the front bumper there. They're synchronized together
and that particular pattern is called intercycle and the one light is not only color swap,
but also reverse fades. You do need the SoundOff programmer to get to that pattern.
You can do it via wire but it's a little tricky but that pattern is called intercycle and you
change the mode of the light to get it to do exactly that. SoundOff's mpowers,
a little bit tricky with their pattern setting but they've definitely got a lot of cool patterns that
do a lot of cool different things. Let's zoom in here, show you a little closer. As you can see,
we got our new banner installed finally. Here's your straight on shot. We just
put those three-inch mpowers right there and a little relief in the front bumper.
I think there may be a turn signal kit on some of these vehicles that goes in that relief. If there
is, you could always mount them to the inboard side on the bumper in around the same location.
Wiring was very easy to bring up right underneath the headlights and into the center of the machine
under the hood there. There's a large rubber grommet takes you right underneath the dashboard.
Really fairly easy to wire this machine. Alrighty, what did we do out back? As you can see, there's
not a lot of real estate on the rear end of this particular dump bed and it does have factory
brake lights and running lights in the red lens that's already there. So in order to get a bright
effective amber-white in each corner, I doubled up the hideaway. Now as you may or may not know,
I'm not a real big fan of a two-color hideaway light. The hideaway light being that one-inch
round circular light most commonly used for encasing, putting inside of a factory lens.
These lights are very small and as I said, the most common usage of them is to put them inside
a one-inch hole in a factory light. You can back mount them as we've done here when you have very
little room and we do occasionally use a hideaway as a surface mount, as you can see here. And the
reason I don't like the two color is they're just fifty percent less bright. It's always
half one color and half the other. So we prefer to use two full color hideaways, as you can see here
to give you that real potent powerful full color flash. Here's your 45 degree shot for the rear.
I like this location also because as you can see, when you flip down the tailgate, you still
get pretty good usage of the lighting. It doesn't get blocked. I did think about putting something
underneath the back of it but that would be mostly blocked with the tailgate down if it happened to
be down and really it wouldn't do anything over here on the side of it if it was buried up under
here. The other benefit, as you can see, is even if you have the bed tipped you can still see those
hideaways fairly easily on the lower part of that bed. So I think that was about the best location
for getting some lights on this particular kind of body if you have one of these machines.
And alrighty, here you can see what I mean about back mounting the hideaways. We were able to drill
a one-inch hole in the plastic body, RTV and a little bit of industrial hot melt to secure
it until the RTV dries from the back side of that hideaway. Glued it right in place there and seems
to be pretty effective. I know it's not going to win any beauty contests but it's nice and discreet
and if you wanted to shadow it out even more, you could put a little spray tint on those lights and
darken them up just a tad. That way, they were a little less visible but in this instance, we want
maximum visibility. That's what you end up with. It is a one-inch hole, as I said and these lights
are predominantly used where you're inserting them into a OEM light but when you're in an extremely
tight situation like this where not even a TIR-3 would fit here, it was hanging over the edge.
You just really didn't have enough room to mount anything on this this tiny little edge right here.
So the one-inch was the answer for us anyways. Alrighty, as you can see, ran our wiring up
here. We followed the factory loom. We kept our disconnects right here as well. We put the modules
here tied to the frame right here and that way, you could un-tape that. We put some Tesa tape over
the disconnects and you could disconnect our four connectors there, as well as the factory connector
and take the entire bed with the lights off the vehicle. So that'll be greatly appreciated if
it ever goes into Bobcat for service because I'm sure if they're working on this motor,
they're just gonna unbolt this little dump bed and get it out of the way and they're gonna
really really be thankful that those connections are right there. So and then this is fairly easy.
We ran it forward along the frame, up underneath and into the center of the vehicle to the switch.
Here we mounted our switch. We just drilled a three-quarter inch hole right through the factory
there. I know, I could have contacted Bobcat and probably got some nice factory matching rocker
switches but this particular client wasn't that fussy about a switch and as you can see,
we went with a nice full illumination amber switch for him and it'll work out just fine. Thanks again
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