I remember years ago when municipalities replaced incandescent traffic
lights with LED lights to save money. They discovered that in winter the
snow would cover and block the lights since they didn’t generate heat like
their predecessors.
The solution was to add heaters which, of course, reduced the cost savings.
This is similar to replacing incandescent bulbs in older cars with LEDs and
needing load resistors for the emergency and directional signals because
the old flashers required a minimal load current to operate.
Ken
WA2LBI
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 13:19 David Robbins <k1ttt.dave@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, and there are advertisements that show that led lamps still melt snow!
>
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> From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces+k1ttt=arrl.net@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> w2ay@atmc.net
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2020 18:00
> To: 'Dale Johnson'; 'Alan Higbie'
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> Subject: Re: [RFI] LED streetlights - Lumenistics
>
> Is there a problem with snow build-up on the new LED lights. ?
> I ask because , I assume there is no heat to melt any build
> up of snow. . Before the change to LED lights, did snow block the
> lights ?
> Bill / w2ay
>
>
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>
> The entire city of Bloomington, Minnesota has LED street lights. There is
> one less than a half block from my house. The Mall of America is six miles
> East of me and the entire parking ramp is LED lighted.
>
> I was also concerned when they started the project. So far I have not
> noticed any increase of noise from these lights. They’ve been in place now
> for a few years. They save on electric power and the old street lights
> used to be a problem when the automatic switches failed, those were
> operated by light sensors on top of the old street lights. I think there
> is a similar setup with the LED lights, but so far have not failed..
>
> Good luck
>
> Dale, K9VUJ
>
>
>
> On 03, Mar 2020, at 12:41, Alan Higbie <alan.higbie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our city (Colorado Springs) is installing LED street lights with some new
> type of controllers.
>
> I am not sure, but I believe these are made by a company named Lumenistic
> (of Boulder, Colorado).
>
> Here is link to recent news article:
>
> https://gazette.com/news/local/colorado-springs-tests-remote-controlled-smart-streetlights/article_d8fb4748-5ccb-11ea-8e2f-db73a4aa2d5e.html
>
>
> It is the microprocessors with potential for RFI that I want to know about.
>
> I'll probably take my Tecsun PL 660 over to where they have installed some
> of the new lights and take a listen.
>
> Anyone have experiences along these lines?
>
> 73, Alan K0AV
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