LED street lighting .

[Lee321]

No, there's no reflective back up in the 3 manufactures road studs that i've just checked out. Only back-up is battery storage levels ...ie 240 hrs from from 3 hrs sunlight to fully charged (sunny day). which is pretty impressive. The manufactures are quoting around 10 consecutive working nights (dusk till dawn) on a full charge without any further charging.Don't get me wrong, seems quite a decent system, and a worthwhile addition to those areas of roads that have suffered from too many accidents.

It's just that when you introduce high technology to a system that had none previously, you also tend to introduce a degree of probable faults and failures.. I would imagine that the price of these units are pretty steep too, but what price do you put on a saved life??? A suck it and see situation!!!

:yawn

 

[Larnacaman]

Any idea of the manufacturer of this LED road stud Lee??

 

[Lee321]

no larn no idea but the majority of the ones i have seen have the reflective stuff

the led is very small so there is still area for reflective stuff incase of failure

your almost coming across as "they surely can't have intergrated the 2" ! ?



i'd of been concerned if they hadn't

 

[Larnacaman]

No not at all, ...but the descriptions given on the three manufacturers that i looked up gave no mention of providing a reflector. I asked, for the manufacturer to see if it was one of those looked up.... Most of the stuff they gave was sales gumpf and very little in the way of technical information. Photo's were mainly showing night performance, none had a clear close-up photo such as you provided above....

 

[Apache]

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[Larnacaman]

Blue cat's eyes are used for police slip roads and the exits of fire and ambulance stations.

 

[Apache]

Blue cat's eyes are used for police slip roads and the exits of fire and ambulance stations.

Did you google it?

 

[Larnacaman]

No, .... done a bit of reading on this subject tonight.... Though I must admit i wouldn't have been able to tell you what the blue cats eyes were for this morning !!! lol!!!

 

[Andy™]

me, me, meGreen is a line of cats eyes you can safely cross, so entrance to or exit from a motorway.

White are for lane marking.

Amber marks central reservation.

Red marks boundary to hard shoulder.

If I was planning it I would use red for central reservation (ie never cross!) amber for hard shoulder boundary [can cross in an emergency] and green for entrance and exits. makes more sense to me.

Although AFAIK blue are not listed in the highway code - where are they used?

top marks there patch. green is also used on layby's

blue is emergency vehicle only. rarely ever see these though

 

[septiclecky]

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[Andy™]

Red are on the left hand side on the motorway where a junction which is joining the motorway.

no, thats green. red is the side of road/hard shoulder. entry/exit slips & layby's are all green

 

[septiclecky]

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[Andy™]

Thats what I'm saying when you are on the motorway as you approach a junction on the motorway the cats eyes are red on the lefthand side

but they change to green for slip roads on/off & layby's. between slip road & lane 1, they are green, not red (or white)

 

[Apache]

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