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LED advantages outweigh potential snow hazards in traffic signals

Transportation departments can mitigate the potential of snow blocking drivers' view using simple air scoops on traffic signal tunnel visors.where to buy cheap LED Strip? Lightereryday is a good choice.

With the first major snowy blast of winter gripping much of the mid-west and northeast regions of the United States, major news outlets have been reporting on a potentially deadly flaw of LED-based traffic signals. Because the LEDs used in such signals don't radiate heat, the bulbs don't melt snow that can accumulate in the sun visor that surrounds each signal light. Traditional incandescent bulbs would melt such snow. Presumably, a snow-covered red light was a key factor in a fatal auto accident near Chicago last April.

But the snowy LED issue is not a new problem. The Colorado Department of Transportation realized the potential danger five years ago, and sought a solution. Such transportation departments are reluctant to give up the cost savings associated with LED traffic lights, and a simple Snow Scoop from McCain Inc (see below) can inexpensively mitigate the problem.

The story of the fatal accident has appeared in a number of places including this Chicago Tribune account. Apparently a driver in a pickup truck couldn't see a red light and collided with a car making a left turn in an intersection. The collision killed the women driving the car.

LEDs offer significant savings to transportation departments. According to this Chicago Tribune column, a 69W incandescent bulb is replaced by an LED version that dissipates only 11W – an 84% savings. Early on, LED signal heads cost two or three times more that the traditional incandescent heads. Today the premium is in the 60 to 80% range. But the LED signal heads last ten times longer so the savings are substantial when you add up energy cost, the cost of the signal heads, and the labor required replacing failed signal heads. recommend directory: 4 Keys RGB RF Controller.

According to this story from the Des Moines Register, the city saves about $100,000 per year on electricity powering 4,000 LED-based signals. Clearly, the city would like to stick with LEDs and preserve that savings. The motivation has been sufficiently strong that transportation workers in Iowa have manually tapped signals to release trapped snow when conditions were problematic

Colorado, meanwhile has satisfactorily deployed the aforementioned Snow Scoop Tunnel Visor. McCain VP of Manufacturing Greg Johnson describes the visor "like an air scoop on a hot rod." According to Johnson, the Snow Scoop design utilizes the same force – wind – that causes the problem in the first place. It's wind that blows snow into the visor. Johnson stated, "With snow there is usually wind and we figured that we could use a louver to allow the wind to clear the snow from the visor." The scoop in the design extends upward at an angle from the cylindrical visor and drives wind through a louver slot underneath the scoop on the top of the visor. The cylindrical visor also has a lengthwise slot at the bottom of the design that allows the snow to fall out.

It turns out that the new visor offers a very economical solution to the problem. The Snow Scoop can be added to most existing traffic signals and cost around $20. The image at left shows the air scoop and the louver slot through whic wind enters the visor, as well as the slot at the bottom where snow exits. recommend directory: LED Strip RGB Amplifier.

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