Posts Tagged ‘solar sign lights’

LED Lights on Solar Signs Grab Attention from Distracted Drivers

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Solar sign lights are three or four flashing LED light that surround a word or phrase on a tin street or traffic sign.  The lights are meant to help grab the attention of distracted drivers so that they would heed the warnings of the signs.

 

There is a solar powered stop sign, solar powered directional signs, solar powered work ahead signs, solar powered school zone signs, solar powered railroad crossing signs, solar powered deer crossing signs, solar powered watch for possible falling rock signs, solar powered deaf children at play signs and all types of solar powered industrial signs for machine shops or power plants.

 

Solar powered signs save lives because they help distracted drivers who are not paying attention draw their attention to solar powered signs with the flashing LED lights on the tin signs that are better than the ordinary sign with no flashing lights.  Additionally, these solar powered LED flashing lights do not require any batteries, which eventually end up in landfills, or long electrical cords which drain the city’s resources.  The solar powered traffic signs only require sunlight but also work on cloudy days because the sun’s ultraviolet rays travel through the clouds.  These environmentally conscious solar powered signs are cost-effective to cities and towns that choose to use them on their streets and to the highway departments who also use solar paneled signs.

 

The LED flashing lights help distracted drivers by drawing their attention to the flashing lights on the traffic signs so the drivers may regard and obey what the sign has to “say”.  For example, there has been a large campaign about slowing down in work zones along the highways because several highway workers have been injured or even killed by speeding drivers.  With the flashing LED lights surrounding a bright orange or neon yellow ‘slow, workers ahead’ sign, the accident rate drops dramatically.  People can’t help but notice the flashing LED lights on the solar signs and this is exactly what the highway department, cities and towns across America want.

 

There are also solar sign for industrial plants and machine shops in bright neon yellow which warn of overhead wires or other cautions such as hard hat areas.  These flashing LED solar powered signs remind workers to beware and be careful while they’re working in what could be a dangerous situation.

 

No matter where a solar powered sign with its flashing LED lights is placed, it is certain to attract the attention of drivers, pedestrians or workers so that they remain safe and help to maintain the safety of those around them.  From schoolyards where school buses are often found to highway work zones, solar power street signs could save lives.

Construction Zones save Energy, Lives with Solar Sign Lights

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Construction zones and highway works zones could benefit from solar powered signs because they not only save energy, they save lives.  Solar powered signs use the sun’s energy to generate three or four flashing yellow or red LED lights to draw attention to a sign in the hopes that a driver will heed the warning on the sign.

 

Solar powered signs such as solar powered stop signs, solar powered safety signs, solar powered warning signs and solar powered lights require no electrical outlets or long extension cords because they are powered by the sun’s ultraviolet rays, which is a free and renewable energy.  Every solar powered sign, no matter what it says, uses the sun’s power to generate a battery that helps four LED lights flash on and off which grabs the attention of drivers or pedestrians in order to keep them safe.

 

Many communities are switching their regular tin stop signs to solar stop signs because they are more cost-effective and help to save lives.  Solar stop signs use the sun’s energy to generate power to four red LED lights that flash on and off to make the stop sign more noticeable to those drivers who may be distracted.  The majority of smaller communities and small towns have maybe one main street that runs through town with several stop signs along its route and everybody knows where each stop sign is. However, if they are distracted, they could drive right past them without even thinking and into another car and possibly cause a fatal accident.  The solar powered stop signs are designed to help stop cars at an intersection where a stop is appropriate and needed.  The flashing LED lights are hard to ignore and can save lives.

 

Solar sign lights could be used at construction sites and highway works zones when nighttime work is required.  Even though the sun is not out, these solar sign lights will run for 12 consecutive hours on the power they gained during the day even on an overcast or cloudy day.  There is never a need for any type of electrical cord or outlet because the solar panels take care of generating the battery that makes the LED lights flash around whatever word or words the sign happens to have printed on it.  This is what makes solar signs so unique; the fact that they do not need anything but the sun’s warm rays in order to help save lives with their flashing LED lights and save energy by using solar panels.

Safety Signs Help Economically Strapped Cities with Budgets; Lower Fatality Rates

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

In these economic hard times many municipalities, cities, towns and states are looking to save money along their highways and roadways in addition to saving the lives of the many thousands of distracted drivers that are on the rise due to cell phone use which has now been banned in several cities and states.

 

One of the better solutions to come along for the cities and towns to combat their economic hard times, in addition to helping save lives, is the LED safety signs.  The LED safety signs are solar powered through the sun’s energy and therefore do not cost the community anything to run on a daily basis and maintenance is very low and limited on these durable signs.  The signs come in a variety of traffic appropriate signs including solar powered stop signs, solar powered railroad crossing signs, solar powered pedestrian crossing signs, solar powered deer crossing signs, solar powered emergency exits and entrances signs, solar powered warning signs and solar powered directional signs.

 

The solar sign lights are LED powered which are brighter lights and last longer than fluorescent lights and can be generated through the sun’s power therefore saving electricity.  The idea behind solar sign flashing lights is that they draw the attention of a driver, who might be distracted through something in the car such as changing the radio station or talking to a passenger or lost in their own thoughts, back to the reality of driving.  The flashing lights catch the driver’s attention and hopefully that will heed the warnings of the traffic signs with the flashing LED lights on them.  For example, if there is a traffic sign that says ‘slow children at play’ with four bright LED lights flashing, one in each corner of the sign, this would be hard to miss even by a driver who is not paying attention because the flashing bright lights are designed to capture a drivers attention.

 

Solar powered safety signs have many applications and can be used in construction work zones where people and heavy equipment need to walk and drive on the same path.  The flashing LED lights on the safety signs alert the heavy equipment drivers to oncoming traffic or pedestrian crossings to help avoid accidents and fatalities because the driver is placed so high up on the machinery that they often times cannot see the ground in front of them.

Construction Zones, Hospital Zones, School Zones; Solar Traffic Signs Work In All Zones

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Solar powered stop signs are used in many different areas around the country in order to help alert drivers to the stop sign they might have otherwise missed because of natural distractions (like ones thoughts) within the car or outside of the car (like rubbernecking to see an accident).

 

In addition to solar powered stop signs with the flashing LED lights, there are many different styles of solar traffic signs available to construction companies, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals and emergency rooms facilities, fire departments and cities and towns.  These solar powered traffic signs use the sun’s power to generate flashing LED lights which helped to attract a driver’s attention to the traffic sign so they will adhere to what the sign designates they do.  For example, a solar powered speed limit sign installed near a school will help drivers realize they are entering a school zone and to begin slowing down to the designated speed limit because they have seen the flashing LED lights that highlight the speed limit on the sign.

 

LED solar sign lights that are placed on solar traffic signs help alert motorists to many different hazards along their path.  Large construction vehicles entering and exiting the highway could have a solar powered traffic sign placed near the road to notify drivers of this impending action.

 

Many accidents in construction zones are down because of solar powered traffic signs and work areas where pedestrians and large heavy construction equipment share the roadway.  A driver of large heavy construction equipment may not be able to see a person on the road; however they will be able to see the solar sign panel and the flashing LED lights as they come up to a crosswalk in their work area.  These solar powered traffic signs will help to prevent many accidents.

 

Hospital zones where emergency vehicles are racing in and out of traffic can be helped with solar powered traffic signs and solar powered stop signs.  Accidents involving emergency vehicles and other motorists can be avoided by using solar powered stop signs to alert drivers of an impending stop where they might not have otherwise seen the stop sign and continued through it into an accident.

 

At three o’clock on any given weekday there are thousands of children leaving schools all across the country and waiting school buses and parents in cars ready to pick them up.  Accidents can be avoided with solar powered traffic signs such as solar powered speed limit signs, solar powered yield signs and solar powered stop signs.

 

Whether it’s a construction zone, school zone or hospital zone, solar powered safety signs and traffic signs can help to save many lives.

Solar Powered Traffic Signs Save Lives; School Zones, Hospital Zones

Monday, February 16th, 2009

There are many different styles of solar traffic signs that can help alert motorists to potential dangers on the road they are traveling.  Solar powered traffic signs include slow speed signs, yield signs, pedestrian crossing signs, and deer crossing signs, traffic light ahead in addition to solar powered stop signs.  These solar powered signs make a difference in the number of traffic accidents in and around where they have been stalled.

 

Solar powered stop signs can have a dramatic impact for motorists and pedestrians near work zones, hospital zones and school zones where drivers are often times distracted and tend to speed without realizing what they are doing or plow through stop signs without seeing them.  Solar powered stop signs placed anywhere pedestrians and motorists coexist can help reduce the number of accidents by helping to alert a driver to what a posted sign is “telling” them.

 

Solar powered traffic signs use three or four flashing LED lights in order to attract a driver’s attention to the sign so that they will slow down, stop, yield or beware of dangers such as power lines, railroad crossings or emergency vehicles entering and exiting the highway.  These LED solar sign lights last much longer than regular light bulbs; therefore replacing them is not an issue. They are powered by the sun’s energy so there is no need to run an electrical cord or extension cord from an electrical outline to the sign.

 

Solar powered traffic signs that alert drivers to oncoming traffic in school zones have been used in and around many different college locations where there tends to be more pedestrians then cars.  Other school zones have also had much success with solar powered traffic signs and solar powered stop signs.  Often times when a parent is dropping off or picking up their student there are hundreds of children walking around, in addition to large buses, making distractions inevitable.  With solar powered traffic signs, people are more alert to their surroundings and more lives are saved.

 

Solar powered traffic signs near fire engine houses or hospital zones help insure drivers who cannot hear the sirens (perhaps the music is too loud) but will see the flashing lights of a stop sign or a bright yellow fire engine sign and heed its warning. 

 

Large colorful signs posted near hospital zones and school zones are often times not enough to save lives, but a solar powered traffic sign with the flashing red or orange LED lights have been proven to save more lives than a traditional sign.

Solar Powered Stop Signs save Lives with LED Lights

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Everyone knows that the rule of four way stop etiquette is that the first person to a stop sign is the first person who gets to leave the stop sign.  However, more and more motorists are prone to ignore stop signs completely because they are too distracted with something going on in the car such as children or dogs or perhaps a cell phone call; one’s own thoughts are often a distraction to drivers causing them not to pay attention and speed through stop signs that were put there for a purpose, the safety of all drivers and pedestrians in the general area.

 

With solar powered stop signs, more distracted drivers will be alerted to stop where they are supposed to because of the four flashing LED lights that surround the words ‘stop’ on each of these solar powered signs.  Solar powered signs are good for the environment because they use the sun’s energy to generate enough power for 12 continuous hours of flashing solar sign lights.

 

Besides solar powered stop signs, there are other solar traffic signs available for cities and towns, schools, construction sites, highway work zones or anywhere there are pedestrians and cars sharing a roadway.  Other solar traffic signs include yield signs, speed limit signs, and railroad crossing signs, school bus stop ahead signs, heavy equipment crossing signs, farm equipment crossing signs, hospitals and school zone signs, slow signs, pedestrian crossing signs or deer crossing signs, each equipped with a solar panel on top and flashing LED lights surrounding the words or picture on the sign.

 

Recent research has shown that many drivers are distracted with simple things like eating, cell phone calls, reading directions, talking with a passenger (or several), “rubbernecking” in order to see an accident or other traffic problems or fiddling with the radio or CD player.  Solar powered stop signs cannot help people from being distracted, it’s a natural occurrence that will happen again and again no matter how vigilant a person is. However, the solar powered stop signs can help motorists become more alert to what their surroundings are trying to tell them with flashing LED lights.

 

Solar powered stop signs save lives by getting people’s attention with the flashing LED lights that a stop is needed in order to safely proceed to your destination.

All Weather Solar Traffic Signs, Stop Signs Perfect for School Grounds

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Many drivers take stop signs for granted, sometimes barely seeing them day after day on their same route to work, home or school.  A solar powered stop sign is designed with four flashing LED lights in order to make the stop sign more visible to motorists.  Solar powered signs work in all types of weather and can be seen through rain, snow, fog or hazardous weather conditions.  Solar powered safety signs include directional signs, stop signs, yield signs, speed warning signs, construction signs, danger sign, and railroad crossing sign, pedestrian crossing sign and emergency vehicle signs.

 

Solar traffic signs use the sun’s energy in order to generate enough power to light the LED lights for up to 12 continuous hours so there is no need to run a dangerous electrical cord to the traffic sign.  The sun’s energy saves thousands of dollars a year in energy costs and helps to save lives.

 

Solar powered traffic signs used near a school can indicate to a distracted driver that children are at play, pedestrians are crossing, school buses are stopping or to reduce their speed.  The flashing LED lights help to alert drivers as to what is going on around them and help them become better drivers.  Drivers are easily distracted, and driving takes a lot of concentration because there is so much to think about and do while driving.  Many people let their thoughts wonder and forget to pay attention to the road; that is why solar powered traffic signs can be a lifesaver to both pedestrians and motorists.

 

Solar sign lights that use the sun’s energy can be placed anywhere outdoors, even under the shade of trees, and are still able to alert drivers with the flashing LED lights.  Flashing LED lights are usually read or orange and set on the four corners surrounding whatever the sign says, or instance the words ‘slow down’, or in the corners of an actual metal sign.  

 

Children at play signs are usually difficult to see or are ignored by motorists who were driving too fast or may be distracted.  A motorist is more likely to see a ‘children at play sign’ when it has flashing solar powered LED lights on it than a regular, non-flashing sign.  The same can be said for all regular traffic signs, they are just not as visible or attention grabbing at the solar powered flashing LED light signs.