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Monday, June 3rd 2013
LED Traffic Safety Products
Road flares and battery operated incandescent lights have been used for many years, alerting drivers to hazards. Plastic cones fitted over flashlights glow in the dark, guiding pilots and drivers. The standard traffic safety devices have worked well; but they have important limitations. LED traffic safety products do the job just as well, and overcome many of the drawbacks.
Road flares are more than bright enough to warn drivers; but they have three problems. One is that they are strictly single use; once lit, they can’t be reused. Two, burn time is limited to minutes, not hours. Three, they have a very hot flame, not recommended if fuel is pilled. Incandescent lights solve these problems in part; but have a run time limited to a few hours at most. LED traffic safety products solve all three problems. They may used for many years; one set of batteries will last for a day or more of continuous use, and they produce almost no heat.
Traffic safety professionals are turning to LED warning lights for all these reasons. Especially in the case of hours-long road blockages, lights that do not need watching and pose no fire hazard at all are very attractive. They take up no more room than half a dozen flares, and need no maintenance beyond checking the batteries every few years. Small weighted stands can be added to lift the LED traffic safety lights above the roadway and increase the distance at which they may be seen, yet take up only a few more cubic inches.
Traffic control batons are a familiar sight to anyone who has ever watched an aircraft guided into an airport terminal at night; they are also seen everywhere from crowded stadium parking lots to school crossing guards. For decades, batons were made by fitting a colored plastic cone over an ordinary flashlight. This worked well enough; but in LED batons the LED lights are mounted directly in the wand itself, not the handle, so the light is used more efficiently. The major drawback to incandescent light bulbs is that they drain batteries in just a few hours. Over a year the cost will be in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars. LED traffic safety products do the very same job better amd use a small fraction of the batteries, resulting in hundreds of dollars of savings.
From emergency services personnel looking for lights they will use every week or every day, to a driver wanting an improvement for the old road flares sitting in the trunk, LED traffic safety products are the way to go. Safer, more cost-effective, and much longer-lived, LED lights shine a better light in an emergency.
Contributor Joel Zenzic
Posted by: Mary Wecker
By Mary at 6:34:56 PM
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