My pet peeve is those flashing bicycle LED headlights that are pointed in your face and brighter than a car. You can’t even see the road or tell they are a bicycle until you flash your high beams and get past them.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> on behalf of Carl Peterson <cpeter...@portnetworks.com> Reply-To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 1:43 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Emergency Vehicle LEDs My pet peeve is people who replace standard headlight bulbs with LED bulbs but leave the standard reflectors. It really should be treated like the reckless endangerment it is and result in jail time. On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:53 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote: It was part of a long list of tests that vendors had to actually perform before they could sell them equipment. Temperature, humidity, vibration, earthquake, etc. I seem to remember there was a UPS test where the packaged equipment had to survive a drop from 6 feet on each side and corner. But where exactly the 50 feet came from, I don’t know. Maybe that’s the average distance from a car window to a repeater housing in the ROW. I find it interesting that I rarely see pockmarked stop signs on rural roads anymore. Maybe it’s more fun now to play COD on the Playstation. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:36 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Emergency Vehicle LEDs thats oddly specific On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:35 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote: There’s a reason Bell System specs for outdoor equipment had a requirement to withstand a blast from a 12 gauge shotgun at 50 feet. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:01 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Emergency Vehicle LEDs im suspecting people with rifles is whats causing the wind turbine blades around here to break off. rural customers are a different type On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 9:53 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote: Maybe it’s an FAA recommendation not a regulation. I can also say we’re a tenant on a commercial tower that must have had a problem with the photocell because for several months it was stuck in white strobe mode. We had several neighbors call us to complain about it as a nuisance, and we had to tell them we’d pass the information along to the tower owner but we did not control the lighting system. If it was my tower, I wouldn’t want people with rifles to take things into their own hands. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of Cameron Crum Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 9:26 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Emergency Vehicle LEDs I had to refile about 200 towers with the FAA and FCC for Sprint back in the 90's. As far as I know, there is no requirement for towers with white strobes to change to red at night. They can if they want to, but there is no regulation requiring it. That being said, I agree it is difficult to see much other than the emergency lights when approaching them at night. On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:50 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote: Maybe tell them how tower lights are white strobes during the day but are required to change to lower intensity red at night. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 6:35 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Emergency Vehicle LEDs Yup. Often approaching an accident all I can see are the cop car lights. Can’t see the cop directing traffic or literally anything going on. Extremely unsafe. The problem is they have no intensity setting. It’s day mode all the time!!!! On Dec 1, 2020, at 7:24 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com<mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote: crazy dangerous. The worst are the snowplows. it used to be in bad snowstorms was a godsend to get behind a plow where you could follow their lights. now you will die because youre blinded if youre within a mile of it. There is no additional "safety" for emergency services ove the prior existing lights that actually had science behind the color, cadence and brightness, On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:13 PM Jim Bouse [Brazos WiFi] <j...@brazoswifi.com<mailto:j...@brazoswifi.com>> wrote: I agree. I brought this up at a fire department meeting and they acted as if I had proposed removing all lights. I was just pointing out that at some point, it becomes dangerous to bystanders. Jim Bouse Owner - Brazos WiFi 979-985-5912 http://www.brazoswifi.com -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 6:06 PM To: Animal Farm <af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Emergency Vehicle LEDs Am I the only one who thinks that the new LED's that all the emergency vehicles have now are dangerous? I was about 1/2 mile behind an ambulance and the flashing LED's were so bright in front of me that I could barely make out the traffic light I was stopped at. And why does the ambulance need to have approximately 200,000 LED Fixtures on it? I get it, I see you, I can't not see you, now I can't see anything else. They saw an open piece of sheet metal and were like, 'We could put another strobe there' It's even worse when there are multiple vehicles together at an accident scene. I understand having them bright during the day, but they are just blinding at night. It's like they need to have a day/night mode. 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