The video shows the sticker on the lower left of the windshield, but the letter I got with the sticker states to put it near the rear view mirror. Which one is correct?
In Illinois they say to put it under the mirror, but I don’t want to put it there. It looks ugly. I think it would still work if I put it on the bottom right like u did.
The lower left corner of a windshield has to be the most difficult place to put a transponder. Any tips on how to get it in there straight the first time?
Is there an ideal "target" area on the windshield for the Switchable Transponder (ST)? I'm specifically thinking of vehicles with Dashcams, radar detectors, parking stickers and other hula dancers mounted upside down. In other words, can the ST be mounted anywhere on the windshield?
To be properly detected, we recommend placing the Switchable HOV Transponder on the middle of the inside of your windshield, directly below your rearview mirror. The video at 3:40 begins the installation instructions for this proper location. Thanks -Alexa
Like on many other vehicle, my windshield has a visor strip. Assuming the transponder requires light of sight to be recognized, would it be feasible to place it in that darker area or is the "visible" color-coded mode need to be visible by law enforcement?
Thanks Dan. If you have a specialized windshield or any windshield treatments, the ExpressToll Service Center can help you with windshield placement. Here is the contact information: www.expresstoll.com/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx. Thanks -Alexa
I installed my sticker but I'm not seeing any deductions from my account. Does anyone know how long it takes for transactions to be posted or is my sticker broken?
anyone know how the transponder stickers actually work? do they transmit a signal or are they only somehow read? how could they have a battery being that thin? or are they solar powered? the reason i ask is i don't want something that transmits, i hear such transponders can be read by other things, like traffic flow studies, etc. one guy in NY said his transponder was constantly being read throughout the city. i don't want to have this thing that is always transmitting in my car.
Fred Smith Hi, Fred...don't know if you ever got your answer to this, but the transponder sticker has no power source and is completely passive. It is only active in the very brief moment when you pass through the tolling area. A very brief radio wave hits your vehicle and the chip in the sticker replies back with its identification number.
hi kevin, thanks for your response. well, how does the sticker respond if it has no power? a friend told me the radio wave or electric field it passes through can actually create a current flow in the sticker's circuit, which gives it the power to respond. is this your understanding? that would mean those stickers are transmitting whenever they pass through a field that can cause that kind of condition. even if they aren't going through a toll. i heard there are things all over the place that try to read stickers and transponders. i don't think i want one of those stickers...
Fred, the transponder tags are RFID tags. It's the exact same principal as putting an identification chip in our dogs or cats so they can be identified when they are found. They use the same technology inside high-value items in stores to prevent theft. The tags themselves are unpowered and completely passive. They do not transmit anything at all. These respond to the handheld device at the veterinarian office or the security barriers at the front of the store. Think of an RFID tag more like a mirror. A mirror in a dark room does not "transmit" so to speak, but when you shine a flashlight on it, it begins to "transmit" the light. If you did not know about the flashlight you would think the mirror is the light source, but in essence the mirror only reflects the light it is given. You might think I'm splitting hairs if an RFID tag "transmits", but I'm really not....it only reflects the radio energy it's being given. I've been a ham radio operator for years, and while I'm not an RFID "expert," the same radio principals apply to RFID like the AM/FM radio and satellite receivers in our homes.
kevin, a mirror can bounce back light without power, but these tags cannot generate a signal without electricity. there has to be some way they are generating a current in order to create a signal. it's not as simple as a reflection as in light, they are triggered to send a signal. my concern is that they are transmitting all over town, as i drive around, in response to various requests that we pass through or by, and me and my kids are being exposed to RF. one guy online said he tested his transponder and couldn't believe how often it was being communicated with as he drove around the city. as i said, i think there is a tiny current being generated in the sticker circuit by the electric or magnetic field the car passes through. this current is enough to send a signal. so this is why i no longer want a transponder sticker in my car. i can't be sure it is only activating at those particular toll areas. it could be activating very often.
Hi Fred, actually I do not disagree with you. In my mirror analogy (and I think I really oversimplified things there) light is energy just as radio waves are energy, except they differ in actual wavelengths. RFID tags are like little radio receivers that takes the energy of the radio waves and responds with a numeric transmission, but in the absence of those radio waves the RFID is silent. What I can't tell you (hence, I'm not an RFID expert) is if they respond to all radio waves or only those of a certain frequency, which seems to be your concern. As a kid I built a small transistor radio that contained a couple of transistors, diodes, air coils and an earbud jack. No power source in the kit. When I put it together and listened in the earbud, I heard a couple of the stronger AM stations in the area (I lived in Los Angeles at the time). Thus I learned that the radio waves themselves caused enough modulation in my kit so I could hear the music in the earbud. So, was the kit transmitting? Not really in the sense of being an independent source of radio waves. It was merely responding to the 50,000 watt transmitter 10 miles down the road. So the long and short of all this is that I would be less concerned about the potential of energy coming from RFID tags, but more concerned about the other actual much stronger transmitters of energy waves all around us like the sun, microwaves, cell phones and televisions we shack up with everyday. Best wishes to you, sir.
Hi Melissa, thanks for reaching out. You do not need a sticker tag on the trailer itself; you only need a transponder on the truck pulling the trailer. Our system automatically attaches this existing transponder to the trailer. The sticker tag would go in the lower corner of the windshield on the driver's side.
The headlight on my motorcycle is curved with a pronounced ridge down the center. The instructions state that bending the sticker may disable it. I'm assuming you chose the headlight to prevent placing the transponder on a metal surface. I'm sure there are other riders like me who need an alternate mounting option and would help you with testing. the current one option instructions are completely inadequate.
Thank you for bringing up this concern, as you are right, the motorcycle sticker tag should not be placed on any metal surface, and it should not be bent or placed across a ridge. You are free to place the transponder on whatever side of the headlight you choose. If you have the option of orientating the tag closer towards the center of the front of the bike, this is what we recommend. Please feel free to contact our Service Center if you have any further questions: www.expresstoll.com/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx. Thank you -Alexa
All I want to know is do the tiny numbers on the sticker face me the driver or toward the outside? The sticker I have installed have the tiny numbers facing me otherwise I have to place it on the outside. Can someone please show me a picture of where the tiny numbers are supposed to face?
Good morning, yes you put the sticker on the inside of your windshield so the numbers will face you. You can see this around 1:33 in the video. Thanks for being an ExpressToll customer!
The switchable transponder location is ridiculous. Anyone with a rear view mirror that contains a light sensor, or rain sensor, or a lane assist in the rear view cluster is SOL. Forget the dashcam - that goes to the side anyway. But to instruct drivers to place the transponder in a location that obstructs vision is crazy.
We do have alternate mounting positions available for customers who have special windshield features and vehicle technologies. Just give us a call with your vehicle make, model, and year and we can provide you with custom transponder mounting instructions for your specific situation! Contact us: www.expresstoll.com/ContactUs
@@E470PHA Why do you respond to questions by asking people to "contact us", rather than provide the information requested, which could include an invitation that you be contacted if clarification needed? I expect that that approach would be more helpful and efficient.
Has anybody realized that most motorcycles have not had a single headlight in decades? How about giving instructions that are actually needed? Also, the switchable transponder is just hideous, congratulations for the awful design. Last note, normally green=free, red=pay, so why did you use red for the free HOV setting and red green for the pay option? Poor design.
Alessandro, thank you for the feedback. We recommend placing the motorcycle sticker tag towards the center of the front of the bike, and it cannot be placed on a metal surface. If you have two separate headlights, you are welcome to place the transponder on whatever headlight you choose. You can always log in to your ExpressToll account and check tolling activity to ensure your tag is being read properly as you drive through tolling points. Thank you as well for your feedback on the Switchable HOV Transponder. As this is a self-declarable transponder, a mechanism that allows the customer to switch between the TOLL and HOV modes had to be included, and the sticker design would not work for this purpose. The design was chosen so that the mode is detectable by tolling antennas and also visible to law enforcement. The red color of the HOV mode matches the red text that states "HOV - Only where accepted." The color is intended to prompt the customer to check whether they meet HOV criteria, meaning A) They meet the required number of passengers, which is currently the driver plus one, but on January 1, 2017, this will change to driver plus two, and B) That they are driving on a CDOT Express Lane that accepts HOV mode, which is currently accepted on all Express Lanes except for the I-70 Mountain Express Lane. The red color also alerts law enforcement that the customer is declaring that they meet HOV criteria. Thanks again for sharing your point of view. -Alexa
Place sticker on the inside of the windshield and on the driver's side. There I fixed your video and Colorado's instructions. Smh. It took me seconds. Still smh. Obviously, this was written and the instructions were written by people who were NOT car savvy. Thank you, have a good day.
Thank you for this video! I recently bought a switchable transponder but now I know where to place it correctly.
Glad to hear our video helped you, Erica! Thank you for sharing! -Alexa
The video shows the sticker on the lower left of the windshield, but the letter I got with the sticker states to put it near the rear view mirror. Which one is correct?
I want to put it in the lower part, it looks better.
3:41- how to install the switchable tag
In Illinois they say to put it under the mirror, but I don’t want to put it there. It looks ugly. I think it would still work if I put it on the bottom right like u did.
The lower left corner of a windshield has to be the most difficult place to put a transponder. Any tips on how to get it in there straight the first time?
I have TXTAG installed under my mirror, will this interfere with Switchable or other transponders?
Is there an ideal "target" area on the windshield for the Switchable Transponder (ST)? I'm specifically thinking of vehicles with Dashcams, radar detectors, parking stickers and other hula dancers mounted upside down. In other words, can the ST be mounted anywhere on the windshield?
To be properly detected, we recommend placing the Switchable HOV Transponder on the middle of the inside of your windshield, directly below your rearview mirror. The video at 3:40 begins the installation instructions for this proper location. Thanks -Alexa
Like on many other vehicle, my windshield has a visor strip. Assuming the transponder requires light of sight to be recognized, would it be feasible to place it in that darker area or is the "visible" color-coded mode need to be visible by law enforcement?
Thanks Dan. If you have a specialized windshield or any windshield treatments, the ExpressToll Service Center can help you with windshield placement. Here is the contact information: www.expresstoll.com/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx. Thanks -Alexa
Can I use a suction cup holder for the switchable transponder or do I have to use the tape side directly on the glass?
Good morning - to ensure the transponder is correctly read, you must install it directly on the glass as shown in the video.
I installed my sticker but I'm not seeing any deductions from my account. Does anyone know how long it takes for transactions to be posted or is my sticker broken?
I just put my transponder newly on top of my rear view mirror then tock it off lighty then put it on the left hand corner would it still work properly
Do I have to remove my TX tag transponder? It's below my rear view mirror
Good morning! No, you can leave your TX tag on your vehicle. Just make sure your ExpressToll transponder is placed at least a few inches away.
anyone know how the transponder stickers actually work? do they transmit a signal or are they only somehow read? how could they have a battery being that thin? or are they solar powered? the reason i ask is i don't want something that transmits, i hear such transponders can be read by other things, like traffic flow studies, etc. one guy in NY said his transponder was constantly being read throughout the city. i don't want to have this thing that is always transmitting in my car.
Fred Smith Hi, Fred...don't know if you ever got your answer to this, but the transponder sticker has no power source and is completely passive. It is only active in the very brief moment when you pass through the tolling area. A very brief radio wave hits your vehicle and the chip in the sticker replies back with its identification number.
hi kevin, thanks for your response. well, how does the sticker respond if it has no power? a friend told me the radio wave or electric field it passes through can actually create a current flow in the sticker's circuit, which gives it the power to respond. is this your understanding? that would mean those stickers are transmitting whenever they pass through a field that can cause that kind of condition. even if they aren't going through a toll. i heard there are things all over the place that try to read stickers and transponders. i don't think i want one of those stickers...
Fred, the transponder tags are RFID tags. It's the exact same principal as putting an identification chip in our dogs or cats so they can be identified when they are found. They use the same technology inside high-value items in stores to prevent theft. The tags themselves are unpowered and completely passive. They do not transmit anything at all. These respond to the handheld device at the veterinarian office or the security barriers at the front of the store. Think of an RFID tag more like a mirror. A mirror in a dark room does not "transmit" so to speak, but when you shine a flashlight on it, it begins to "transmit" the light. If you did not know about the flashlight you would think the mirror is the light source, but in essence the mirror only reflects the light it is given. You might think I'm splitting hairs if an RFID tag "transmits", but I'm really not....it only reflects the radio energy it's being given. I've been a ham radio operator for years, and while I'm not an RFID "expert," the same radio principals apply to RFID like the AM/FM radio and satellite receivers in our homes.
kevin, a mirror can bounce back light without power, but these tags cannot generate a signal without electricity. there has to be some way they are generating a current in order to create a signal. it's not as simple as a reflection as in light, they are triggered to send a signal. my concern is that they are transmitting all over town, as i drive around, in response to various requests that we pass through or by, and me and my kids are being exposed to RF. one guy online said he tested his transponder and couldn't believe how often it was being communicated with as he drove around the city.
as i said, i think there is a tiny current being generated in the sticker circuit by the electric or magnetic field the car passes through. this current is enough to send a signal. so this is why i no longer want a transponder sticker in my car. i can't be sure it is only activating at those particular toll areas. it could be activating very often.
Hi Fred, actually I do not disagree with you. In my mirror analogy (and I think I really oversimplified things there) light is energy just as radio waves are energy, except they differ in actual wavelengths. RFID tags are like little radio receivers that takes the energy of the radio waves and responds with a numeric transmission, but in the absence of those radio waves the RFID is silent. What I can't tell you (hence, I'm not an RFID expert) is if they respond to all radio waves or only those of a certain frequency, which seems to be your concern. As a kid I built a small transistor radio that contained a couple of transistors, diodes, air coils and an earbud jack. No power source in the kit. When I put it together and listened in the earbud, I heard a couple of the stronger AM stations in the area (I lived in Los Angeles at the time). Thus I learned that the radio waves themselves caused enough modulation in my kit so I could hear the music in the earbud. So, was the kit transmitting? Not really in the sense of being an independent source of radio waves. It was merely responding to the 50,000 watt transmitter 10 miles down the road. So the long and short of all this is that I would be less concerned about the potential of energy coming from RFID tags, but more concerned about the other actual much stronger transmitters of energy waves all around us like the sun, microwaves, cell phones and televisions we shack up with everyday. Best wishes to you, sir.
Where do I put the sticker tag for my commercial semi trailer?
Hi Melissa, thanks for reaching out. You do not need a sticker tag on the trailer itself; you only need a transponder on the truck pulling the trailer. Our system automatically attaches this existing transponder to the trailer. The sticker tag would go in the lower corner of the windshield on the driver's side.
The headlight on my motorcycle is curved with a pronounced ridge down the center. The instructions state that bending the sticker may disable it. I'm assuming you chose the headlight to prevent placing the transponder on a metal surface. I'm sure there are other riders like me who need an alternate mounting option and would help you with testing. the current one option instructions are completely inadequate.
Thank you for bringing up this concern, as you are right, the motorcycle sticker tag should not be placed on any metal surface, and it should not be bent or placed across a ridge. You are free to place the transponder on whatever side of the headlight you choose. If you have the option of orientating the tag closer towards the center of the front of the bike, this is what we recommend. Please feel free to contact our Service Center if you have any further questions: www.expresstoll.com/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx. Thank you -Alexa
All I want to know is do the tiny numbers on the sticker face me the driver or toward the outside? The sticker I have installed have the tiny numbers facing me otherwise I have to place it on the outside.
Can someone please show me a picture of where the tiny numbers are supposed to face?
Good morning, yes you put the sticker on the inside of your windshield so the numbers will face you. You can see this around 1:33 in the video. Thanks for being an ExpressToll customer!
Thanks for asking and the clarification!
It's now $18 yes?
The switchable transponder location is ridiculous. Anyone with a rear view mirror that contains a light sensor, or rain sensor, or a lane assist in the rear view cluster is SOL. Forget the dashcam - that goes to the side anyway. But to instruct drivers to place the transponder in a location that obstructs vision is crazy.
We do have alternate mounting positions available for customers who have special windshield features and vehicle technologies. Just give us a call with your vehicle make, model, and year and we can provide you with custom transponder mounting instructions for your specific situation! Contact us: www.expresstoll.com/ContactUs
@@E470PHA Can you please tell me where to mount the sticker on a fifth wheel camper? There is no mention in the video. Thank you.
@@E470PHA Why do you respond to questions by asking people to "contact us", rather than provide the information requested, which could include an invitation that you be contacted if clarification needed? I expect that that approach would be more helpful and efficient.
I’m installing mine in the lower right. If it doesn’t work I’ll get a new one.
@@crunchdatait’s a bot, it’s Alexa.
Has anybody realized that most motorcycles have not had a single headlight in decades? How about giving instructions that are actually needed?
Also, the switchable transponder is just hideous, congratulations for the awful design.
Last note, normally green=free, red=pay, so why did you use red for the free HOV setting and red green for the pay option? Poor design.
Alessandro, thank you for the feedback. We recommend placing the motorcycle sticker tag towards the center of the front of the bike, and it cannot be placed on a metal surface. If you have two separate headlights, you are welcome to place the transponder on whatever headlight you choose. You can always log in to your ExpressToll account and check tolling activity to ensure your tag is being read properly as you drive through tolling points.
Thank you as well for your feedback on the Switchable HOV Transponder. As this is a self-declarable transponder, a mechanism that allows the customer to switch between the TOLL and HOV modes had to be included, and the sticker design would not work for this purpose. The design was chosen so that the mode is detectable by tolling antennas and also visible to law enforcement. The red color of the HOV mode matches the red text that states "HOV - Only where accepted." The color is intended to prompt the customer to check whether they meet HOV criteria, meaning A) They meet the required number of passengers, which is currently the driver plus one, but on January 1, 2017, this will change to driver plus two, and B) That they are driving on a CDOT Express Lane that accepts HOV mode, which is currently accepted on all Express Lanes except for the I-70 Mountain Express Lane. The red color also alerts law enforcement that the customer is declaring that they meet HOV criteria. Thanks again for sharing your point of view. -Alexa
Place sticker on the inside of the windshield and on the driver's side. There I fixed your video and Colorado's instructions. Smh. It took me seconds. Still smh.
Obviously, this was written and the instructions were written by people who were NOT car savvy. Thank you, have a good day.
I read the Instructions but the tiny numbers face me is this correct.? A picture after installing would be helpful.
I’m installing mine bottom right. I don’t care what they say.