ISIS Power Case Study- 10-75 Emergency Lighting

Here is another case study highlighting one of our commercial vehicle customers. 

Customer Profile
10-75 Emergency Lighting is an emergency vehicle up-fitter that has a specialty in building SUV based Command and Response Vehicles for Fire, Law Enforcement and Emergency Medical Service professionals. 10-75 Emergency Lighting has been working with the ISIS Team since winter 2008.

What’s Important to the Customer?
10-75 is a small business in a huge industry that has constant changes in technology, and with that competition is all over. 10-75's main goal has been to set themselves apart from their competitors, whether it is the products and design ideas they create or the level of customer service and satisfaction they provide.

The Basics
Most of the Command and Response Vehicles that leave the 10-75 facility are equipped with one MASTERCELL and two POWERCELLs. They mount the MASTERCELL in their custom made center consoles to tie in to the switching modules, mount one POWERCELL under the hood of the vehicle and one POWERCELL at the rear of the vehicle. This allows for reducing the amount of wiring that they need to run throughout the vehicle. This is extremely important for two reasons, first is lower material costs and secondly, in today’s modern vehicles there are already a large amount of wires in the vehicle and it has grown increasingly difficult to hide the amount of wires and keep with the vehicles stock appearance.

The ISIS system allows 10-75 to keep the equipment at the front of the vehicle tied into the front POWERCELL and only run the CAN cable to the MASTERCELL and rear POWERCELL. Then they tie the rear equipment into the rear POWERCELL, dramatically reducing the amount of wiring. This also allows 10-75 to reduce the amount of relays required from at least ten relays and two flashers to one relay and no flashers.

Not only does the ISIS system reduce materials but it increases the reliability, flexibility and capability of the vehicle which is a win-win for everyone. Keeping costs down and increasing productivity is an absolute must in today’s tough economy.

Expandability
10-75 is using the ISIS system to control the warning lights, scene lights, power inverters, air horn systems, radios, and other customer requested items to be installed in the vehicle. The ISIS system allows these accessories to have multiple functions without the need for multiple relays and flashers.

For example, a customer can request an air horn system installed on their command vehicle. 10-75 wires the air solenoid to the front POWERCELL which not only controls the air horn traditionally with a momentary switch, but it also allows 10-75 to add an additional switch in the rear of the vehicle. It will control the air solenoid the same way as in the front of the vehicle but they can program the rear switch to pulse the air horn a given amount of times to signal firefighters to evacuate a dangerous environment. This is done with minimal added labor and material costs. 10-75 has also used the ISIS system for a customer that requested dual purpose running board lighting. The customer wanted to use the lights as both a warning light and as ground lighting when the doors are opened. With a traditional wiring harness this would require a dramatic increase in labor and material cost, but with the ISIS system there is minimal labor and material costs. This helps 10-75 keep the cost of their conversions down while increasing customer satisfaction because the vehicle works the way they want it too. The ISIS system not only has helped them serve their customers better but has also helped them in reducing troubleshooting and repair time

What they save in each truck:
• Labor and materials costs by creating extensive wiring harnesses

• Individually wired switch panels

• Large banks of relays and flashers

• Reduction in wiring time

What they gain with ISIS in their trucks:
• More compact electrical system that has unlimited flexibility without increased size

• Reduction in labor and material costs

• Increased reliability

• Diagnostic capabilities for troubleshooting

• The flexibility to add other functions easily and quickly

• Integrated load management

You can download the entire case study from the ISIS Power website by clicking this link. 

You can lean more about 10-75 Emergency Lighting by visiting www.1075lighting.com or clicking here.