From Theelectrikid

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PS... for a 3 headed light, you'll need 5 conductors, unless it's a polycarbonate body

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get a PLC and some relays so that the thing can actually flash. A friend of mine has one wired to a sound system. -50db = green, -30 = yellow, -10 = red, clip = whole thing turns off. Its really cool to watch it flash to the music.

Thanks Scott, and Randy!
I'll try to get a picture of the one I made, not good or compliant, but probably better than this hazard.

NVST: I have a Lights to Go! Sequencer in an old gutted breaker box that runs a few lights. When I move I'm getting a real controller (the big grey box things) for my back yard. (8-12 lights on a 130X128 Levittown lot!)

Also, I'm trying to get my parents to let me go with them when our new (to us) house gets inspected, oh the joys those Levittown Houses hold!

Ian A.

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Ian,

Have you seen this website before?
http://www.signalfan.com

Yep I have, and am an active member of his MSN Group.

Ian A.

I had a traffic signal once in college, but it was confiscated by the police when they came to serve my one roomate a subpena We hadn't done anything wrong (I quite literally found it in the woods) but they claimed it was stolen property and took it with them. Bastards! We'd fixed it up nice, too, and wired up all the lights.

I have a traffic Light I got of eBay it was also wired in a shady manner a 2 wire Zip cord (My Light is metal) ribbed wire Neutral under the terminal block and the rest of the wires from the LED signals taped together with masking tape. I fixed that right up with a proper 3 wire cord and I also got a Lights to Go T3 Sequencer that Controls the light like a real one on the streets

Ian, all the months you have been posting about traffic signals, I thought you meant the trafficators fitted to automobiles! I sigh with fond memories of my kids' bedrooms crammed to the ceiling with the obstacle courses of their footballs, cricket stuff, tents, camping and hiking kit, bikes, boots, old engines, ancient tvs, lumps of rock, planks, models, militaria etc., that Denise had to negotiate to make the beds. But Traffic Lights! Jeez! I think she would have exploded!

Alan

You gotta become more bi-lingual Alan. Two countries divided by a common language, and all that!

For those who are now confused by "trafficators," these were the directional signals which were fitted to some British cars in the 1950s instead of flashing lights front and rear (assuming the car had signals at all).

They were small semaphore arms set into the pillars between the front and rear doors. Operating the turn signal for the appropriate side caused the arm to be lifted out of pillar by a solenoid, while at the same time turning on the light on the arm (which was a single amber light showing to both front and rear, but which did not necessarily flash).

The early VW Beetles had this feature as well.

Here's an example of one of the ones I make. This one has no ground wire because it's for a Polycarbonate Plastic signal. Not legal (I know) but IMHO better than the hacked one it had.

One or two layers of Scotch Super 33+, depending on use (hanging loose or running through a stand through two 90s, respectively) over 14, 12 or 10 AWG stranded wires, depending on which Handy Helper cuts the wire for me. My standard color code is Red/red light, Black/yellow light, Blue/green light, White/neutral, and a green ground of course (except in the case of poly lights.) This varies depending on the number of lights.




Ian A.

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http://www.carreweb.fr/stfr/sl.html

If you can read French, this is a great site too with the interesting signal aspects of the SNCF (French railways).

or just browse the colour options in use.

Enjoy,

Raymond