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Traffic advisor for clearing confusion |
Article Submitted by: Sunil Punjabi
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Motor vehicles contain an assortment of lights like headlights, taillights, and brake lights. These are necessary for the vehicles to see other vehicles and also to make themselves conspicuous on the road. Emergency vehicles will have an additional set of lights for communicating with other vehicles. But despite all this, vehicles get stuck on the road now and then, and to guide vehicles during such junctures, a traffic advisor is a must.
If motor vehicles have a host of additional features today than they had in earlier days, new additions have become necessary for guiding motor vehicles as well. A traffic advisor may not be a very recent development but it is a comparatively later addition to traffic controlling provisions. When there is a traffic jam on the road or a repair work going on in an area, the traffic lights at the road junctions is not enough to guide traffic and a traffic advisor will have to be put into service to control the situation. A traffic advisor is also called an arrow stick. In the light bars mounted on police vehicles there will be a traffic advisor besides the red and blue warning lights and takedown lights and alley lights. It is used for warning other vehicles of hazardous road conditions and to guide them in various directions through sequential signaling. The main four operating modes of a traffic advisor are left, right, flash, and split. Those that come with a light bar may have on an average 15 flash patterns. Besides emergency vehicles, larger vehicles like construction vehicles and tow trucks also use a traffic advisor to minimize confusion. A traffic advisor will typically have a polycarbonate housing that will be weather proof and waterproof, and will also have water proof connectors. Besides built-in direction sequences, a traffic advisor may have 10 or more scan-lock flash patterns from which the user can select. The scan-lock toggle switch can be used to display the patterns forward or backward cyclically. To set a chosen pattern as the default option, it can be allowed to flash for more than 5 seconds and then saved as the active mode. Amber is the only color used in a traffic advisor. As different from red, which is the color of warning, and blue, which could either signify a presence, or could communicate to another vehicle to pull over, amber is always a color of caution. Amber is used in parking lights and in slower moving vehicles on the roads, to caution other vehicles to proceed cautiously. It is for the same reason that it is used in a traffic advisor also. Besides the fact that it is generally meant to convey caution, amber light can be seen well through fog or rain and so is suitable for use during bad weather conditions. Further, with amber lights, there is no difficulty of 'moth effect', which is the problem of over-brightness of a light, especially red light, which attracts other drivers towards it and disorients them. This too makes amber most suitable for use in traffic advisor. A traffic advisor is externally mounted in most cases and comes with various mounting options like L-brackets, suction cups, and swivel brackets. Some manufacturers offer model specific mounting kits also with their traffic advisor. As in the case of other warning lights, there is a gradual shift from incandescent lights to LED lights in the case of arrow advisors as well. Extreme Electrical Dynamics is a one-stop shop for Traffic Advisor and many other items like Flashlights, Emergency Lights, Deck Lights, etc. Please visit the site for more details of various items available - http://www.extremetacticaldynamics.com/ Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
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