From: "Michael A. Terrell"
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.components,sci.electronics.design,alt.engineering.electrical,aus.electronics,sci.electronics.repair
Subject: Re: Best way to power array of LEDs?
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:45:29 -0400
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Lizard Blizzard wrote:
>
> James Sweet wrote:
> > The traffic light LED's use a transformerless power supply usually so they
> > flicker at 60 Hz, the yellow doesn't flicker because it's incandescent,
> > they're on so little that the savings of using LED's for them would be
> > minimal.
>
> Around the city, I've noticed thast even the yellow stop lights are
> LEDs. I believe the reason was that if the yellow lamps were left
> incandescent, then the system would still have to use AC line voltage.
> I think one thing was contemplated when they converted to LEDs, the use
> of lower power and voltage would allow the whole traffic light system
> run off backup batteries. This was important in the last year or so
> because of the possibility of rolling blackouts in (So.) California.
>
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Here in Central Florida I see them replacing the red lights with LED
assemblies, but not the yellow or green. I have noticed a few already
have a couple bad LEDs and haven't been in use for a full year.
--
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida