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Incandescent pedestrian signal
These are pretty much extinct nowadays, at least around here. LED's have taken over. This lone holdout is still in use on a sidestreet in Yonkers, NY.
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Incandescent pedestrian signal

These are pretty much extinct nowadays, at least around here. LED's have taken over. This lone holdout is still in use on a sidestreet in Yonkers, NY.

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Filename:3645NEG0002.jpg
Album name:RichD / Traffic Signals & Related
Keywords:Traffic_Lights
Lamp Type:Incandescent
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Date added:Dec 26, 2011
Dimensions:775 x 767 pixels
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joe_347V   [Dec 26, 2011 at 04:10 AM]
Nice find! Incandescent signals are getting harder to find here too, until around a year and a half ago there were still some left. And is that a wasp nest I see on it. Shocked
streetlight98   [Dec 26, 2011 at 03:41 PM]
Nice. There are LOTS of incandescent ped signals and still quite a few incandescent signals in the Blackstone Valley area or RI. RIDOT never converted many ped signals, but they did convert most of the traffic signals to LED. We have soem older LED versions of this with the words. I've noticed this style doesn't have the ' after the "n" in "DONT"
joe_347V   [Dec 26, 2011 at 05:38 PM]
Hmm never heard of a LED worded insert for a ped before, those ones you are talking might be fibre optic inserts, we used to have them back in the incandescent days.
streetlight98   [Dec 26, 2011 at 07:15 PM]
They take up one section..... They're definetly OLD too. Maybe 80's(???) retrofits?
joe_347V   [Dec 27, 2011 at 02:15 AM]
I'm pretty sure LED modules weren't out in 80s and was released during the 90s. Here's a fibre optic pedestrian insert. It uses two MR16 halogens and colour filters (one for don't walk and one for walk) to light the indication.
basilicon89   [Dec 27, 2011 at 02:15 AM]
99% sure what you saw was Fiber Optic. If there was a fade-out, then they used the low voltage halogen bulbs behind the fibers.

However... GE did develop an LED worded pedestrian signal in the late 1990s. They were tested and quickly pulled in favor of the federally mandated symbols.
joe_347V   [Dec 27, 2011 at 02:17 AM]
Here's a fibre optic ped in action, you can see the fade out that Nick is talking about.
streetlight98   [Dec 27, 2011 at 02:33 AM]
Most are still around, although none are lit. The lamps more than likely died. I don't know if there was a fade out, but the "diodes" are exposed and there is a black board that fills the rest of the space just like the fiber optic signal in the link, so most likely they are fiberoptic.

BTW, how come the worded ped signals aren't made anymore? I like those better. Also, we use fully lit LED lands here versus the outlined ones...
basilicon89   [Dec 27, 2011 at 02:41 AM]
what you call "diodes" on a fiber optic is actually the end of the fiber strands. Federal law requires all new pedestrian signals to be symbolic. Worded can be used till they are replaced. Outline symbol LEDs were pulled off the books as well.
M30   [Feb 28, 2012 at 04:22 PM]
Nice pedestrian signal. That is a 16" Marbelite model MPS-20. It was similar to the model LPS-20 in that both used the same pedestrian signal housing. Although the only difference between both was that this used colored lenses for the indications, while the LPS-20 used colorless indications. Of course, because of that, the LPS-20 required colored incandescent light bulbs. Very nice overall. Thanks for sharing the picture.

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