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Article #21564Re: Car Detectors for Traffic Lights
From: Brian Kantor
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 05:36
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 05:36
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About 10-15 years ago I modified one of those "electronic" automotive timing lights (a Sears, I think) by replacing the trigger circuit with a unijunction transistor oscillator driving a speaker transformer wired in reverse. It tripped the Opticon(?) sensors on the traffic lights just fine after dark - it was too dim to work during the day. As I recall, there were two frequencies sensed by the traffic light controller - one would simply extend the green and was for use by transit buses and such to save on gas and brakes, and the other caused immediate green in one direction and red elseways. I don't remember the exact frequencies but they were slower than 20Hz, as I recall. I'm told that's now illegal: "tampering" with a traffic signal. There's entirely too much law these days. - Brian
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