SignalTraffic Forums

2070 wrote:How many wires are going to the "Controller" and is that a 12 or 18 pin plug/connector?

2070 wrote:The reset switch may have to do if the 2 Lights are on together??

2070 wrote:How many wires are going to the "Controller" and is that a 12 pin plug/connector?

Magnetboy wrote:

I know the 2 Wires are for the flashing out puts. I am just curious what thw 2 extra Wires are for.....

The reset switch may have to do if the 2 Lights are on together??

Magnetboy wrote:

I will have to look more closely at the controller when I get home. Additionally, I can't see the photos while I am here at work. The government computers block photo/file sharing websites so anything I can say about the controller right now would be solely by memory. Before I get too far into this, I am going to check the simple things, loose wires/connections, replace the fuse, etc., etc. I don't want to overlook something stupid simple.

Unless I bring it up on my cell phone...

BigTbird1974 wrote:THANKS for posting these pics MB!!

How interesting to compare your controller to Jerry's! They're so similar but yet different in many little details -- I'd certainly guess yours is the "newer" of the two.

BigTbird1974 wrote:I agree, BTW, that the controller should cycle the lights whether or not the timeswitch motor runs -- the timeswitch just serves to kick the panel into night-flash mode. (probably via a relay inside at the other end of those two blue wires hooked to the Y1 and R2 connections?) The physical on/off lever on the timeswitch should still switch it anyway.

BigTbird1974 wrote:I've never seen what's inside one of those (though I would love to...?) but by listening to Jerry's in his video, there are obviously a few relays in there somewhere, probably controlled by some rather simple electronics in addition to the 'run' and 'reset' switches -- it shouldn't be difficult to figure out!

Can't wait to hear (and see, I hope!) more as you get it up and running!

I'll see what I can do.

jab8356 wrote:

2070 wrote:The reset switch may have to do if the 2 Lights are on together??

I find it hard to believe that a controller like this would be approved for street use without some type of conflict monitor.

jab8356 wrote:Ah, I get it. I wish I could figure out a way to make it display conflicting greens to see what would happen!

Magnetboy wrote:

2070 wrote:I am just curious what thw 2 extra Wires are for.....

The reset switch may have to do if the 2 Lights are on together??

jab8356 wrote:I find it hard to believe that a controller like this would be approved for street use without some type of conflict monitor.

BigTbird1974 wrote:
I wonder if Phil's onto something here...maybe those two extra wires and the 'reset' button are part of some rudimentary circuit that kicks it into 'flash' in the event of two indications together...? (perhaps including the function of whatever relay "clicks" with the main street?? I've been curious why it does that then, too...)

Or in other words, a crude form of "conflict monitor"??

BigTbird1974 wrote:

jab8356 wrote:Ah, I get it. I wish I could figure out a way to make it display conflicting greens to see what would happen!

Two words: CLIP LEAD

jab8356 wrote:

2070 wrote:I am just curious what thw 2 extra Wires are for.....

The reset switch may have to do if the 2 Lights are on together??

This has been bugging me, so tonight I yanked the "Lights To Go" style controller out of my Singer 4 way and hooked it back up to my Teeco 500 and while it was cycling, I touched a wire to both green outputs...CLICK...FLASH! It does have some sort of conflict monitor that puts the signal into flash if conflicting greens are detected.

jab8356 wrote:This has been bugging me, so tonight I yanked the "Lights To Go" style controller out of my Singer 4 way and hooked it back up to my Teeco 500 and while it was cycling, I touched a wire to both green outputs...CLICK...FLASH! It does have some sort of conflict monitor that puts the signal into flash if conflicting greens are detected.

and yours, Jerry, is the presumably older model, without those extra green and blue wires appearing on its terminal block...??

Spoiler:

OH, how I SO LOVE "obsolete technology"...I want one of these things, too!!!!

jab8356 wrote:I find it hard to believe that a controller like this would be approved for street use without some type of conflict monitor.