Hey Mike. Been a while since we chatted. Congrats on the new job and hope it's been pretty smooth for ya. I still have not been able to get into the Signal Tech field due in large part the limitations with IMSA certification offerings. The other side is there's not been any career opportunities in TX for my location since moving here last October. I wanted to again thank you for your time you worked with me getting my personal traffic light gear operational. For the most part everything functions like it should (aside from NEMA and MMU flash) and it's helped me grow my knowledge further in the 24 years as a collector/hobbyist.
@@trafficsignalstraining7673 I had looked but there was nothing online at the time. The next available in person for me is not until November. I'll probably have to go look again.
6:33 Those D8 controllers weighed a ton! Did you ever use the Crouse-Hines SP40 pretimed controllers? We were phasing them out when I started in the mid 1980s in Phoenix. I'd like to get my hands on a Winko-matic TC75 time base coordination. It would make a good time based relay contrtoller for lights and other stuff.
This shop is my goal! I’m in the works of trying to open a traffic signal division under my dads electrical company (I’m only 20) and have many doubters but oh well lol, I bought a bucket truck, and have been doing as much research as I can on everything signals, and design plans for signals. I’m still very novice. Next step is getting either sub contracting jobs or trying to get a town to hire me even though I have no experience in traffic lights, only resi and commercial electrical, and have my journeys-mans license, but they never taught us anything traffic signal related in class rip. Love ur videos thought watched basically all of them all the way through.
That device with the lamp and flasher is a flasher tester. To test a flasher you plug it in and verify the lamps alternately flash. There were also tester for load switches. Back in the day we repaired flashers and load switches. They were expensive $75-$100. Now they cost $15. Not worth time and effort to repair.
Thanks for the tour! Fascinating!
Learned a lot from you sir, thanks a lot
New boss comes in and orders it all in the trash.
Wow traffic signal controllers have come a very long ways since. I have 2 controllers in my collection a Econolite ASC/3-1000 and a Eagle EPAC300.
Best of luck to you. Great tour of the antiques.
Wish you the best. Thx for 12:52 vids very helpful.
Hey Mike. Been a while since we chatted. Congrats on the new job and hope it's been pretty smooth for ya. I still have not been able to get into the Signal Tech field due in large part the limitations with IMSA certification offerings. The other side is there's not been any career opportunities in TX for my location since moving here last October.
I wanted to again thank you for your time you worked with me getting my personal traffic light gear operational. For the most part everything functions like it should (aside from NEMA and MMU flash) and it's helped me grow my knowledge further in the 24 years as a collector/hobbyist.
Awesome, I'm glad your stuff has been available. You should have some online classes available for IMSA level I and II
@@trafficsignalstraining7673 I had looked but there was nothing online at the time. The next available in person for me is not until November. I'll probably have to go look again.
6:33 Those D8 controllers weighed a ton! Did you ever use the Crouse-Hines SP40 pretimed controllers? We were phasing them out when I started in the mid 1980s in Phoenix. I'd like to get my hands on a Winko-matic TC75 time base coordination. It would make a good time based relay contrtoller for lights and other stuff.
Maybe you could answer why can’t lights resume automatic operation after a power failure rather than flash red for hours?
They can, but it could be that it wasn’t configured correctly.
I saw a gridsmart box, miovision or bust lol
Believe it or not we have those too
This shop is my goal! I’m in the works of trying to open a traffic signal division under my dads electrical company (I’m only 20) and have many doubters but oh well lol, I bought a bucket truck, and have been doing as much research as I can on everything signals, and design plans for signals. I’m still very novice. Next step is getting either sub contracting jobs or trying to get a town to hire me even though I have no experience in traffic lights, only resi and commercial electrical, and have my journeys-mans license, but they never taught us anything traffic signal related in class rip.
Love ur videos thought watched basically all of them all the way through.
Could you give me advice on how you first started in traffic signals and how you got work? Also how you learned so much.
Thanks
Good luck with your company man. It's a great field of work to get in for sure.
That device with the lamp and flasher is a flasher tester. To test a flasher you plug it in and verify the lamps alternately flash. There were also tester for load switches. Back in the day we repaired flashers and load switches. They were expensive $75-$100. Now they cost $15. Not worth time and effort to repair.
See, I get to learn things. We used to have a load switch tester back in the day... but it's not worth the time considering a LS is $60 these days.