Hello again, Here in CT, our company installs a "simulator" (which my boss had several built as a part of electronics school class project) and we connect it to the field wire terminals in the cabinet. When a new signal is replacing an existing signal, we use the simulator 4 or 5 days prior to turning on the new signal.
Perfect that's kind of like this device except there's no better simulator than a cabinet in a lab. Most of the cabinets we have in the field me our specifications So there's not much to surprise us.
About 10 years ago, we installed a new signal at the entrance to a new shopping center. The controller was furnished to us by the city. We tested the controller and CMU in our shop. I brought the controller into the field and it would not come out of flash!! After investigating and after some tence moments, I discovered that the auto/flash switch in the police panel was installed or wired backwards!
@@elainecullen5714 I have seen similar stuff with that, was it miswired in the cabinet or somehow the input in the controller was miswired? Super important to try and test everything as much as you can back at the shop. All of the signal cabinets that are installed within our maintenance area need to be Q.C.'d at our shop first and we set them up completely and then the contractors will come and pick them up here at our signal shop.
The cabinet was installed several weeks earlier by someone else and I went to the site to "stuff" the cabinet and give it a test run. Just for fun I put the signal into flash in the police panel and 10 seconds later the signal came up and operated normally from that point on.
Anything to do with signals is always interesting! Thanks for the new video. It would really be neat to see some electromechanical controllers if there are any still in use. :)
Believe it or not we have a few here at the shop oh, they haven't been used in years but I believe some of them are still functional I just haven't taken the time to get them running again.
As a traffic signal collector of 20 years, I wish I could get my hands on one of those intersections in a box devices. i actually have a Traconex 390CJ unit with a 12 position load bay (NEMA TS1 yup old skool!!!). Also I own the older 4 phase HMP 40 from Traconex. Got a few 1960s signals (all retired of course). My first one is my favorite the LFE 8" signal. Then I got the LFE/TCT 12", followed by a really old Econolite "Bullseye" back 12" signal (square doors sadly. Wished they were the round ones). All signals are 3 faces naturally. I did have the epic Model 131 3M High Vis signal, but it tipped over on me in a garage and on it's way down it received several huge hols in the housing and shattered 2 optical limiters. I also have a 9" Crouse-Hinds ped (DW/W text) and a 16" ICC with proper DW/W text. I disliked when the older peds were forced into the hand/man format. They just look better with text :-) I've gone so far into studying to be a traffic signal tech (level one) through the IMSA, but misplaced those REALLY expensive 3 ring binders they provided during a move. One thing I am curious about, and hope you have insight. Is it possible to create the yellow flash using the older TS1 load bay? As I mentioned mine is only 12 positions (yes they recommend the full 16). Originally it was wired for phases 1-8 with OLA-D (though I swapped OLC and D for 2 peds). It'd be amazing if you could go into more details about the "toys" you get to work with. For me this is all fascinating. Yup I am a geek for this gear and have been since I was a kid (back when we still have electro mechanical controllers in service. KERR-CHUNK. Oh how I miss those.
So you definitely need an overlap to do it, and a newer controller. There are ways of mocking it up using flashers, etc. not exactly sure how but I think there may be a way to run the flashing yellow off of the PED yellow outputs
Hello again, Here in CT, our company installs a "simulator" (which my boss had several built as a part of electronics school class project) and we connect it to the field wire terminals in the cabinet. When a new signal is replacing an existing signal, we use the simulator 4 or 5 days prior to turning on the new signal.
Perfect that's kind of like this device except there's no better simulator than a cabinet in a lab. Most of the cabinets we have in the field me our specifications So there's not much to surprise us.
About 10 years ago, we installed a new signal at the entrance to a new shopping center. The controller was furnished to us by the city. We tested the controller and CMU in our shop. I brought the controller into the field and it would not come out of flash!! After investigating and after some tence moments, I discovered that the auto/flash switch in the police panel was installed or wired backwards!
@@elainecullen5714 I have seen similar stuff with that, was it miswired in the cabinet or somehow the input in the controller was miswired? Super important to try and test everything as much as you can back at the shop. All of the signal cabinets that are installed within our maintenance area need to be Q.C.'d at our shop first and we set them up completely and then the contractors will come and pick them up here at our signal shop.
The cabinet was installed several weeks earlier by someone else and I went to the site to "stuff" the cabinet and give it a test run. Just for fun I put the signal into flash in the police panel and 10 seconds later the signal came up and operated normally from that point on.
Anything to do with signals is always interesting! Thanks for the new video. It would really be neat to see some electromechanical controllers if there are any still in use. :)
Believe it or not we have a few here at the shop oh, they haven't been used in years but I believe some of them are still functional I just haven't taken the time to get them running again.
As a traffic signal collector of 20 years, I wish I could get my hands on one of those intersections in a box devices. i actually have a Traconex 390CJ unit with a 12 position load bay (NEMA TS1 yup old skool!!!). Also I own the older 4 phase HMP 40 from Traconex.
Got a few 1960s signals (all retired of course). My first one is my favorite the LFE 8" signal. Then I got the LFE/TCT 12", followed by a really old Econolite "Bullseye" back 12" signal (square doors sadly. Wished they were the round ones). All signals are 3 faces naturally. I did have the epic Model 131 3M High Vis signal, but it tipped over on me in a garage and on it's way down it received several huge hols in the housing and shattered 2 optical limiters.
I also have a 9" Crouse-Hinds ped (DW/W text) and a 16" ICC with proper DW/W text. I disliked when the older peds were forced into the hand/man format. They just look better with text :-)
I've gone so far into studying to be a traffic signal tech (level one) through the IMSA, but misplaced those REALLY expensive 3 ring binders they provided during a move.
One thing I am curious about, and hope you have insight. Is it possible to create the yellow flash using the older TS1 load bay? As I mentioned mine is only 12 positions (yes they recommend the full 16). Originally it was wired for phases 1-8 with OLA-D (though I swapped OLC and D for 2 peds).
It'd be amazing if you could go into more details about the "toys" you get to work with. For me this is all fascinating. Yup I am a geek for this gear and have been since I was a kid (back when we still have electro mechanical controllers in service. KERR-CHUNK. Oh how I miss those.
Awesome! I don't have room to collect, otherwise my wife would strangle me.
So you definitely need an overlap to do it, and a newer controller. There are ways of mocking it up using flashers, etc. not exactly sure how but I think there may be a way to run the flashing yellow off of the PED yellow outputs
Great vid, hope to see more