Your company needs to get their windshield replaced. Safelite will replace the windshield and bill the company's insurance. It's very unsafe to drive around with a cracked windshield
How common is it that 4 of the same LEDs would go bad like that? I'm not a signal tech like yourself but thinking all of those just happened to go bad would not have been my first thought. Ideas on what caused that? And yes, love the longer form videos!
They are all tied to the same phase and must of taken a power surge while they were red causing all the reds to pop. To answer you though very uncommon! I’m glad you enjoy the videos!!
@@BartlettTFD yes but it’s if he holds a cfl he knows by law the truck is not in working order so that tuck is out of service and that being a union job he has every right to refuse to take that truck
Your windshield is not only a dot violation its also a state and local violation you can be fined and if the dot spot you your truck will be forced out of service and towed back to your yard and youll have a large amount of fines and worse yet the dot will do a full inspection on your truck which will be like a fine tooth comb im surprised that the company or city you work for dont seem to pay much attention to pretrip inspections also your bucket trucks should be equiped with flashing amber lights and an arrow board especially if your in the middle of the road changing out leds . your boss needs to read the national safety standards manual .
Thank you for your content! To help those who are wondering why the conflict monitor didn't trip I would like to offer an explanation. The conflict monitor only checks for voltage. Those burnt out red Leds had voltage. Therefore, the conflict monitor was satisfied - no red fail. It is also possible that the Leds still presented a load on the circuit but not emitting any light. This would explain why the monitor did not trip on dual indication fault. Normally, an open circuit will still have voltage when the load switch is turned off. This is due to leakage voltage (from the triacs) and would be suppressed if a load is present. I would say the monitor is good. The red circuit still had a load on it even though the Leds would not illuminate. Or, dual indication was disabled in the monitor for this channel.
I'm wondering if the intersection or cabinet got hit by lightning while the street was in red burning them out. I figure it's pretty unheard of for all the red signals to just go out at the same time. While at the same time it would create issues with the conflict monitor or cabinet. I don't work on traffic signals I've mainly started diagnosing issues at a logistics warehouse with PLCs or VFDs when they act up. Power surges xan create some weird issues if it goes past the conditioner.
Would have liked to seen more of what you were actually doing beyond pointing. Being dark doesn’t help but it is what it is. Broken windshield doesn’t say much for the company or how they treat their trucks and employees. Just saying as a 30 year commercial driver. Like your videos and find them interesting. I have subscribed. 👍🏻
I'm a traffic signal enthusiast with my own home setup. There's a couple of things in this video that happened to me personally. In my cabinet, I had a load switch go bad which caused the reds on one phase to go dark. I also waited for the conflict monitor to kick in and throw my signals into flash. It did not. That led me to wonder that in this situation that it would be worth checking the load switches on the phase with the reds that are out. Fortunately in my case, I had a spare load switch in which I changed it out to make the reds work again. As for the intersection not being thrown into flash for having reds out, I've learned that some cabinets are not set up to detect a red indication outage. My own cabinet wasn't set up that way. It really does surprise me that the powers that be would wait that long for 4 LEDs to go out to make a service call especially when the intersection had 4 dead red LEDs.
So all four of these reds were tied to the same phase, phase 04 it took a hit during a recent storm and the power surge took out the 4 LEDs and the load switch!
I would have placed the bad load switch back into the phase 4 position to verify that the conflict monitor would indeed place the signal into flash. Since I believe you said you left the original CMU in there, I would make sure it was not affected either....
So how would you repair that intersection so the conflict monitor works as intended - that would be an interesting video to see. Thanks for the videos! :)
Hello from Adelaide Australia, i myself am a motorcycle rider and mostly we use the induction coils for light activation occasionally ill pull up to the light but it doesnt trigger can you give us a overviews of how they would be adjusted to be better at sensing motorcycles?
Detector cards that he shows in the video have sensitivity settings. They can be increased or decreased. The size of loop that is cut in the road also influences how good it detects. Its a balance between these two for optimal detection
Ever since I started watching these videos, I've seen like a bunch of lights out... I told my mom to run a red light and then got pissed when the yellow arrow turned on too lmao.
I always wonder are the green strobes on your car are standart in the us, i like it😊. Are there different colors for different Services? In Switzerland we have only Blue (Police/Ambulance/Firetrucks) and orange for Warning things 😊
I love your videos, thanks for teaching us how traffic signaling works, while repairing it. Explaining how a pedestrian push button cross call works, gets organized, and allows you to cross, was really helpful, from another of your videos.
People in downtown St. Louis are so desperate for copper wires. Now they’re starting to strip the copper wires out of those big tin metal boxes for the stop lights as well as stealing the copper wire for the normal street lights and the fire hydrants
What would I have to do to get into traffic light engineering? Cause I rewired my own personal w traffic light with leds! I do want to convert them to incandescent tho one day
Just a reminder to whomever fills it. If they drive a gasoline car habit to use reg gas not really thinking about it. Seems to happen mainly with diesel pickup trucks and usually it's the girlfriend or wife to blame.
Your company needs to get their windshield replaced. Safelite will replace the windshield and bill the company's insurance. It's very unsafe to drive around with a cracked windshield
Naw fr😂😂
Also a DOT violation. DOT sees that during an inspection it's a fine. Probably even end up with a truck that's been put out of service.
@SOU6900 yes that too as they are subject to DOT regulations
You sound like a safelite employee, just trying to sell windshields 💀
@catwithabat7163 nope I'm not a Safelite employee
Please wear your seatbelt. I would like to see you continue to make content.
How common is it that 4 of the same LEDs would go bad like that? I'm not a signal tech like yourself but thinking all of those just happened to go bad would not have been my first thought. Ideas on what caused that?
And yes, love the longer form videos!
They are all tied to the same phase and must of taken a power surge while they were red causing all the reds to pop. To answer you though very uncommon! I’m glad you enjoy the videos!!
@@Trafficlightdoctor Zap! Pop! Maybe that's what messed up some of the other electronics in the cabinet..
Thanks for the reply! Stay safe out there!
@@Trafficlightdoctor How does the controller know that the lamps are out and to therefore go into flash?
This is why the incandescent/halogen ones are superior.
@@Warp3326 No, they’re not.
That windshield need to fixed any CDL driver would have gotten a tickets
he was also speeding for sure, he was going like at least 120
That is NOT the tech’s responsibility. It is the company’s responsibility to maintain ALL of their equipment in a SAFE manner.
@@BartlettTFD yes but it’s if he holds a cfl he knows by law the truck is not in working order so that tuck is out of service and that being a union job he has every right to refuse to take that truck
Your windshield is not only a dot violation its also a state and local violation you can be fined and if the dot spot you your truck will be forced out of service and towed back to your yard and youll have a large amount of fines and worse yet the dot will do a full inspection on your truck which will be like a fine tooth comb im surprised that the company or city you work for dont seem to pay much attention to pretrip inspections also your bucket trucks should be equiped with flashing amber lights and an arrow board especially if your in the middle of the road changing out leds . your boss needs to read the national safety standards manual .
Thank you for your content! To help those who are wondering why the conflict monitor didn't trip I would like to offer an explanation.
The conflict monitor only checks for voltage. Those burnt out red Leds had voltage. Therefore, the conflict monitor was satisfied - no red fail. It is also possible that the Leds still presented a load on the circuit but not emitting any light. This would explain why the monitor did not trip on dual indication fault. Normally, an open circuit will still have voltage when the load switch is turned off. This is due to leakage voltage (from the triacs) and would be suppressed if a load is present. I would say the monitor is good. The red circuit still had a load on it even though the Leds would not illuminate. Or, dual indication was disabled in the monitor for this channel.
Or, dual indication was turned off on those channels.
I guess it would have been time-consuming and a real pain to check those voltages in the system before replacing the LEDs?
I'm wondering if the intersection or cabinet got hit by lightning while the street was in red burning them out. I figure it's pretty unheard of for all the red signals to just go out at the same time. While at the same time it would create issues with the conflict monitor or cabinet.
I don't work on traffic signals I've mainly started diagnosing issues at a logistics warehouse with PLCs or VFDs when they act up. Power surges xan create some weird issues if it goes past the conditioner.
When ever possible, could you show the intersection when you put it in or out of flash? At night would be great.
Love these videos.
Your company is going to have to get that windshield replaced before the truck can pass inspection again.
Seatbelts 😬
Would have liked to seen more of what you were actually doing beyond pointing. Being dark doesn’t help but it is what it is. Broken windshield doesn’t say much for the company or how they treat their trucks and employees. Just saying as a 30 year commercial driver. Like your videos and find them interesting. I have subscribed. 👍🏻
I'm a traffic signal enthusiast with my own home setup. There's a couple of things in this video that happened to me personally. In my cabinet, I had a load switch go bad which caused the reds on one phase to go dark. I also waited for the conflict monitor to kick in and throw my signals into flash. It did not. That led me to wonder that in this situation that it would be worth checking the load switches on the phase with the reds that are out. Fortunately in my case, I had a spare load switch in which I changed it out to make the reds work again. As for the intersection not being thrown into flash for having reds out, I've learned that some cabinets are not set up to detect a red indication outage. My own cabinet wasn't set up that way. It really does surprise me that the powers that be would wait that long for 4 LEDs to go out to make a service call especially when the intersection had 4 dead red LEDs.
So all four of these reds were tied to the same phase, phase 04 it took a hit during a recent storm and the power surge took out the 4 LEDs and the load switch!
@Trafficlightdoctor That's what I was thinking a power surge
I would have placed the bad load switch back into the phase 4 position to verify that the conflict monitor would indeed place the signal into flash. Since I believe you said you left the original CMU in there, I would make sure it was not affected either....
❤ love this video! Aswell as your entire channel. Much love from Australia! ❤❤😊
Love your videos. Great presentation, interesting content. Thanks for what you do.
Put on your seatbelts, Dont hold your phone while driving, dont hold your phone while fueling, AND FIX THE WINDSHIELD
Gonna show us how its done?
What are you going to do with the old ones
Something serious happened to take out 4 at the same time (as well as the controller and loops). I've see partial LEDs missing on array type, but 4 :o
Why are your junctions/intersections so dam massive??? And why are they are so subtle? Like they aren’t visable?
Honestly the unsung hero’s of our modern world. Literally keeping the world safe and orderly
Yo for a second when he was doing a Timelapse of him driving I thought he was going 95mph down the Highway!😂😂
Also I love your content!
Do you have a portable "🛑 traffic light malfunctioning" sign? That could be a good idea if the bucket truck fails.
This was interesting. I'm a new subscriber and will watch more content, Nice job!
So how would you repair that intersection so the conflict monitor works as intended - that would be an interesting video to see. Thanks for the videos! :)
If you saw the checklist of things we do in one shift you'd understand why the receipt paper is whack half the time.
but the real question is; how many bucket trucks dose it take to change a traffic signal bulb?
5 mins i cant get back!! They cant fix there own self!
Green and white is interesting. I would prefer amber and green.
Hello from Adelaide Australia, i myself am a motorcycle rider and mostly we use the induction coils for light activation occasionally ill pull up to the light but it doesnt trigger can you give us a overviews of how they would be adjusted to be better at sensing motorcycles?
Detector cards that he shows in the video have sensitivity settings. They can be increased or decreased. The size of loop that is cut in the road also influences how good it detects. Its a balance between these two for optimal detection
Love this, thank you for sharing!!!
He was clearly wearing his seatbelt
Ever since I started watching these videos, I've seen like a bunch of lights out... I told my mom to run a red light and then got pissed when the yellow arrow turned on too lmao.
oh you do make longer videos
I like the longer videos.
This video did my ADHD good 👍. Interesting stuff
And its short
Strangely enough, I have never seen a traffic light where all three lights weren't the same type of bulb (LED, incandescent or fluorescent).
I always wonder are the green strobes on your car are standart in the us, i like it😊. Are there different colors for different Services? In Switzerland we have only Blue (Police/Ambulance/Firetrucks) and orange for Warning things 😊
Hes very funny ngl
I love your videos, thanks for teaching us how traffic signaling works, while repairing it.
Explaining how a pedestrian push button cross call works, gets organized, and allows you to cross, was really helpful, from another of your videos.
People in downtown St. Louis are so desperate for copper wires. Now they’re starting to strip the copper wires out of those big tin metal boxes for the stop lights as well as stealing the copper wire for the normal street lights and the fire hydrants
What would I have to do to get into traffic light engineering? Cause I rewired my own personal w traffic light with leds! I do want to convert them to incandescent tho one day
It is so nice to learn what goes on in those "cabinets" I pass on my daily commute.
4 LEDs going at once is crazy
Diesel truck stink
Smells like money! 🤑
it got dark quick!
Is it possible for all three colors to light up on the traffic head?
Shouldn’t be.
I just noticed there’s a sticker saying diesel only that makes it seem like there’s some models I could run on diesel or gasoline... weird...
Just a reminder to whomever fills it. If they drive a gasoline car habit to use reg gas not really thinking about it. Seems to happen mainly with diesel pickup trucks and usually it's the girlfriend or wife to blame.
It’s labeled because gasoline can cause catastrophic failure of a diesel engine. They can run off of many things, but gasoline isn’t one of them.