Has any one heard of a green light trigger for motorcycles?

I saw one on ebay and I was curious if any one has used these things.

 

I have heard of such a trigger, but I have not used one. I read somewhere that flipping your headlight from low to high will usually trigger the sensor. Apparently the voltage change is enough to do it. Of course, not having my bike yet, I can't personally validate that claim!

 

Are you talking about the type that Fire Trucks, et al have ?

Most lights are operated by a Signal Loop in the pavement.

For this type ,You just need more Metal mass.


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i know most of them where i live have all been changed to time operated.

 

>Are you talking about the type that Fire Trucks, et al have
>?
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>Most lights are operated by a Signal Loop in the pavement.
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>For this type ,You just need more Metal mass.
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>Dennis
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In the US, a lot of stop lights have what looks like a little camera up on the pole. It's not a camera, but a light sensor. It senses the repeating pattern of a strobe light like it what is on emergency vehicles. You can cause them to change from red to green by flashing your highbeams as you aproach. Although this is starting to be common knowledge among truck drivers, there is very little said about it from an official standpoint.

 

This system is called the opticom system.

Chirs

 

Hmmm... I wonder if one of those orange construction/tow truck strobes would set it off...

 

I found a link with a PDF file about the system. Interesting reading for those who drive an Emergency Vehicle or those who want to, me!!

[link:www.wattco.net/infopdf/opti2.pdf|Here is the pdf]

 

Havent had much of a problem here in AZ, but I did in WA...
The trigger set up I saw, mounted to the bottom tubes on the frame...sorta/kinda like a magnetic setup(?)...

The one I saw seem kinda expensive if I remember correctly...I jus figured it was just another gimmick to rip off the consumer...

Ive used the higbeam trick/sometimes it works sometimes I jus get lucky...
Ive also tried slowing down and weaving back/forth across my lane just prior to stopping, again sometimes it works sometimes it dont...price ya pay when riding a bike.

 

thanks for all of the replys.

The one I saw on ebay was a supposed magnet that was supposedly make the light trigger. When I looked at it the bid was only 5 bucks.

I think that I'll give the headlight trick a whirl, I know it works, as I've done it with my pickup, guess I never thought to try it with my motorcycle.

Thanks again!

 

The opticom on emergency vehicles is triggered by a strobe. How this works is off of fps(flashes per second). Not all opticoms are set to the same setting(kinda like garage door openers). The trigger is indeed the camera looking device(or sometimes a clear reflector looking thingy depending on model/age of system.) The newer opticom strobes are built into the lightbar, on older models it was a seperate strobe light in a grey box. So flashing your lights will occasionally work by luck. But traffic lights also have a couple different types of triggers for non emergency vehicles which I believe is what the trigger for the motorcycle was designed for. Some are strictly on a timer but others have a sensor under the pavement. If it has these you will usually see a grid type system in front of the stop line. These sense mass/a vehicle over them, and start a count down to change light color that way. So if you stop straddling one of the lines in the pavement or better yet over one of the lines parallel to the direction you are going it should work on a motorcycle to start the timer for changing the lights.
P.S. the grid is not obvious it will look like the pavement was cut and patched. The opticom info is correct, job experience. As for the info on the pedestrian vehicle trigger I asked a friend of mine in public works and believe the info to be accurate. But I don't know if a magnet type device will do any better then just trying to stop over one of the lines.
T. Roberts
UFD Local 1147

 

Get a really long stick and when you stop, poke the pedestrian crosswalk button. Or else you could do what I do and run the friggin' light after a couple of minutes.
Also, I have found with the pavement sensors, if you stop for a few seconds over it, then move forward a foot or two, it makes the light change. I have problems with these systems in my Saturn cuz the stupid thing only weighs 150 lbs soaking wet and full of gas.
BDV

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 02-Jan-03 AT 06:24 AM (EST)]>P.S. the grid is not obvious it will look like the pavement
>was cut and patched.

I drove for Domino's pizza while in college and discovered that if you pull up to a red light in a left turn lane, and the intersection is equipped with a left turn arrow, if you stop three car spaces back you will activate the left turn arrow even if you are the only person there. They are set up so that if there are less than 3 cars the light does not give early preference to people turning left- you would simply have to advance on the general green and wait for traffic to clear before going forth. If there are three cars or more the light activates and lets those turning left go first. It is pressure on the third section of the grid that activates the light.

Every now and then I'll see someone who knows the trick. It might be cheating but it always works!

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2003 F-350 V10

 

>In the US, a lot of stop lights have what looks like a
>little camera up on the pole. It's not a camera, but a light
>sensor. It senses the repeating pattern of a strobe light
>like it what is on emergency vehicles. You can cause them to
>change from red to green by flashing your highbeams as you
>aproach. Although this is starting to be common knowledge
>among truck drivers, there is very little said about it from
>an official standpoint.


For anybody interested i found this site on the web a couple days ago, i'm not endorsing the product, but wouldn't mind having one!


http://www.plans-kits.com/kits/

 

Kit #2 is a good way to get yourself killed or your legs broken.

>For anybody interested i found this site on the web a couple
>days ago, i'm not endorsing the product, but wouldn't mind
>having one!
>
>
>http://www.plans-kits.com/kits/
>
>
>
>

When on two wheels-
FXSTC
Mesa- AZ

2003 F-350 V10