My Truck Install Pictures

WK9F · Post by **WK9F** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:30 pm

Here's some pictures of my install:

Exterior View - 2003 Ford F-250 Super Duty

The "Cockpit"

Another view of the Cockpit

In this view, you can see the video camera in the windshield next to the rear view mirror

The "Avionics Bay"

The Equipment is as follows:

Console (top to bottom)

UHF 110 watt MCS-2000 Model 2
800mhz A7 Spectra
VHF A9 110 watt Spectra

Computer is a Panasonic CF-27 w/ docking station and touch screen.

The Smart Siren SM controls the Vector bar and the amber corner strobes.

The small 4 switch controls the blue forward facing corner strobes, alternating headlights and the rear facing blue Fireball 2's

I like 'tunes' and I spend a lot of time in here, so I also have an Alpine AM/FM cassette radio, Delphi XM radio, and a 10 disc CD changer.

The antennae (or is it antenni?) are all Antennex and are:

5db VHF whip
5 db UHF whip
3 db 800

GPS antenna is unknown.

Judge them as you will, but be gentle.

W4KRR · Post by **W4KRR** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:25 pm

Nice! Is there any room for a passenger in there?

I'd like to see pics of an install in a 2004 F-150, they're completely redesigned and I believe they have a factory console that completely covers the transmission hump.

WK9F · Post by **WK9F** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:44 pm

W4KRR wrote:Nice! Is there any room for a passenger in there?

Believe it or not, yes, my 'other half' has plenty of room. Anyone bigger than her though and they're in trouble.

Post by Pj » Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:21 pm

Couple of ?'s...

What's the lights for (wrecker service since you also mentioned blue)

And what's the yellow button on the A9 head?

WK9F · Post by **WK9F** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:28 pm

Pj wrote:Couple of ?'s...

What's the lights for (wrecker service since you also mentioned blue)

Yellow are for when I snow plow and the blue is for the VFD I belong to.

pj wrote:And what's the yellow button on the A9 head?

The yellow button is the VRS button (VRS not installed)

Jerry

BigTex1136 · Post by **BigTex1136** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:20 am

Hey very nice. One quick question about your laptop, what is the cord that comes from your laptops wireless network card?

KG6EAQ · Post by **KG6EAQ** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:34 am

It would be an MMCX pigtail. That goes from his 1150 to some form of external antenna, be it NMO, mag mount or a dash mount.

Gerbil · Post by **Gerbil** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:06 am

only reason i'd consider a full size truck.
you can fit more crap in it.

i want a video camera.
the number of times i've thought to myself.
dude, thats some wacked out stuff, i wish i had a video camera.

KitN1MCC · Post by **KitN1MCC** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:49 am

looks good except for that dan Federal bar.

and White/natural tie Wraps i dont know

FFParamedic571 · Post by **FFParamedic571** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:58 am

Heyyyy. Ive seen that truck driving around by where my parents live.....( and I grew up) and I know that console anywhere...

gws · Post by **gws** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:57 am

No passenger airbag issues to worry about? I would really hate to be in the passenger seat during an accident with or without an airbag.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:23 am

I'd definitely get an airbag defeat switch, if Ford doesn't have one in there.

WK9F · Post by **WK9F** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:46 am

KitN1MCC wrote:looks good except for that dan Federal bar.

and White/natural tie Wraps i dont know

At least it's the 'good' Vector without the smart pods. I chose that bar because it looked better than the Jetsonic or the Streethawk.

About the wire ties - I didn't have black ones big enough. Actually, I would have rather used wire loom, but I couldn't find any big enough. The biggest I could find was 1" and I needed more like 1.5".

It's still a 'work in progress'.

FFParamedic571 wrote:Heyyyy. Ive seen that truck driving around by where my parents live.....( and I grew up) and I know that console anywhere...

Where?

jim wrote:I'd definitely get an airbag defeat switch, if Ford doesn't have one in there.

Ford provides a passenger side airbag defeat switch, you just can't see it - it's behind the XM radio. I keep it turned off because the 'other half' is 'vertically challenged' and is worried about the airbag.

Jerry

FFParamedic571 · Post by **FFParamedic571** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:15 am

city of the Elms....about 64 and 83... and I probably assembled that console....

apco25 · Post by **apco25** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:24 pm

Looks great nice to see a vehicle post since it was getting scarse in here lately.

Why didn;'t you run all the lights to the SS2000? I can't imagine you need more switched outputs than the SS has?

KitN1MCC · Post by **KitN1MCC** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:13 pm

Why not an Edge.

And i liek the XM.XM just kicks As

maybe we need an XM forum

WK9F · Post by **WK9F** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:32 pm

apco25 wrote:Why didn;'t you run all the lights to the SS2000? I can't imagine you need more switched outputs than the SS has?

Actually, yes I ran out of switched outputs. I ran over by 2, so I just put the VFD stuff on it's own switch box.

KitN1MCC wrote:Why not an Edge.

I suppose the simple answer would be that I didn't have one.

Jerry

apco25 · Post by **apco25** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:18 pm

That is the one problem with the SS2000 you only get those 5 extra outputs.

Anyway, looks great. I may see you around those parts of the world as I'm for a job in McHenry Co.

c17loadsmasher · Post by **c17loadsmasher** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 2:33 pm

hey now, that FS Vector works nicely, I love mine!

itjisfo · Post by **itjisfo** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:53 pm

SlimBob · Post by **SlimBob** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:07 pm

Gerbil wrote:i want a video camera.
the number of times i've thought to myself.
dude, thats some wacked out stuff, i wish i had a video camera.

What does the camera go to?

WK9F · Post by **WK9F** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:33 pm

Actually, the video camera doesn't go anywhere yet. I'm still debating whether to use tape as the recording medium, or a USB video capture card with external hard disk for the computer.

Anybody have any thoughts?

thebigphish · Post by **thebigphish** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:57 pm

WK9F wrote:Actually, the video camera doesn't go anywhere yet. I'm still debating whether to use tape as the recording medium, or a USB video capture card with external hard disk for the computer.

Anybody have any thoughts?

If you're gonna run the cam any time the vehicle is on, i'd just figure make it as brainless as possible (ie - loop recorder) and only pull the tape when you catch something good....

If you are looking to just use it when you see something that gives you a bit of a warning, then i'd set up the capture card on the laptop...that way you can stop and start recording as you see fit....even with an external harddrive on that laptop, you're gonna be smoking that cpu ripping video to that HDD across the USB bus. poor thing.

one gives you "all-see-all-record" ability, and the other "record-on-demand"

(yay, fun with color)
ok, i'm a cornball.

911radio · Post by **911radio** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:55 am

What brand/model camera is that and what kind of mount. Looks real nice, fairly compact.

WK9F · Post by **WK9F** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:06 pm

The camera is a unit made by JVC for Crim-tek Industries. It's a 2 piece color camera. The part that is seen is the remote head that contains the color CCD chip. The rest of the electronics are in another piece that is buried in the dash board. I don't have the model number handy, it's on the piece in the dashboard.

The mount is something I picked up at Lund Industries. It's just an 'L' bracket and a swivel that screws into a small bracket that is glued to the windshield.

FFParamedic571 · Post by **FFParamedic571** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:12 pm

The camera mount it from an Eyewitness video system. It mounts with a glue kit from a rearview mirror. The " L " is made by gamber-Johnson. Its from their shortstack mount.

Nexrad16 · Post by **Nexrad16** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:41 pm

Doing a Maxtrac install in a Ford F250. Would like input, where to mount, where to get power, hints, tips etc. Just whatever that will help.

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