My Traffic Signal Setup and Flash Mode

I decided to upload another video of my collection as an update. I also thought I would feature flash mode as well. Since my last setup video, I've made a few changes and added more signals to the mix. As you see, most of the signals are outifitted with LED units. The 8" left turn signal is incandescent as there are no 8" LED arrows available. They're quite rare. The McCain signal to the left is outfitted with a set of GE RX-11 units while the rest of the 12" signals have dialights in them. Sorry about the lighting in the room. The lighting down here is generally poor, but the light behind the signal on the cabinet helped. The noise you hear through the video is the air conditioner running. I guess I should have shut it off before I began to record. I hope to get some better videos during the day as night time lighting isn't so great. Enjoy. :)

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[weeardguy]

Funny how to see the signals differ from Europe: here a pedestrian-signal that will turn red will flash green pretty fast for 6 to 10 times or so, and will turn red after that. here it starts flashing red before turning red.

About the 'signals-out-of-order' flashing: why is one signal red and the other amber? Is that also like that in real life of is that just something you like yourself (here it's all amber...)

[GrnArrow092]

@weeardguy The pedestrian signal itself I can best describe in relation to a vehicle signal. As we know, the man or walk signal tells a person that they are clear to proceed across the intersection, which is like the green on a vehicle signal. There is a flashing walk signal in use in some intersections which tells a person to beware of turning traffic. The flashing hand or flashing dont walk is like the yellow on a vehicle signal, which warns the person to finish crossing the intersection...

[GrnArrow092]

@weeardguy and that the pedestrian signal is going to go to a steady dont walk, which is called a ped clearance phase. That's like the red on a vehicle signal. It of course tells people to stop and wait for a walk signal.

About the flash pattern on the vehicle signals, the reason why the signal flashes red on the cross street and yellow on the main street is that the main street on any intersection is going to flash yellow. That warns the driver to proceed with caution as there could be...

[GrnArrow092]

@weeardguy traffic proceeding through the intersection from the cross street or a car traveling in the opposing direction making a left turn. Flashing red means stop first and proceed if the way is clear. All cross street signals and left turn signals flash red. I try to mimic what I see on the streets as far as the layout goes. The left turn signal always goes on the left, but I left it in the middle just because it looked nice there. My setup has changed since this video was made.

[Nathanrailfan]

I see you have a bi module arrow if that's what it is on that four way.

[GrnArrow092]

@Nathanrailfan It is.

[canal550]

I want you traffic-ligths

[11feetdeep]

Where and how did you get these?

[MilwaukeeNorth418]

I find this extremely scary for some reason...........

[ConvoBeats]

How did I end up watching this?

[360InternationalSb]

I hate having to wait at a red light to go to the bathroom... :D

[TheSmasherMaster]

How do you get them all to run in one room like that

[weeardguy]

@GrnArrow092 I get the point: we don't have that here in the Netherlands; everything is flashing amber, no matter what road-type it is.

If we have extra flashing signals, those are mostly for car-traffic making a right turn that has to give way to cyclists and pedestrians: maybe (when the weather is a bit better than the last days) I'll make a video of one of the intersections here.