Fire Station upgrade package for Chicago suburb
TEMPE, AZ - 06/06/2012 - STC has furnished a full replacement control
package to Bloomingdale, IL to replace an old Right-Of-Way (ROW) hybrid fire
station signal which was no longer functional.
The village of Bloomingdale had a fire station that was set back some
distance from the nearby arterial. As the truck drove down the driveway
towards the arterial, the system would activate optically and turn on the
signals. For years the system did not work and there seemed to be no way to
fix it since ROW went out of business in 2002.
STC was called in to provide a similar system, one that would work with a
GTT Opticom detector package. STC furnished a solar-powered master unit and
a solar-powered slave unit placed at the end of the fire station driveway
with indications facing the traffic on the arterial. The design is based on
the hybrid systems STC has furnished to the City of Tucson over the last 10
years and is approved for use in the MUTCD.
The master unit consists of a suitably-sized solar power system on a mast
arm pole. The master also includes an Opticom 721 detector assembly with a
euro-style card rack and 752 phase selector card (E series for 24VDC
operation). Since the solar power system is a nominal 12VDC, a DC-DC
converter was included to run the Opticom equipment. Once triggered, the
control logic for the master would run through the timing cycles for the
lamp sequence and radio across the street to the slave unit to run the LED
lamps in a like manner. The control logic includes an LCD screen so the user
can easily adjust the run time values for each interval.
The slave included a solar power system as well, and was linked to the
master via license-free radio. Both the master and slave were configured
with high efficiency red and amber DC LED lamps also from STC. The equipment
was furnished to STC's Midwest distributor Traffic Control Corporation and
the work was done by Meade Electric.
Celebrating our 11th year designing and manufacturing solar-powered traffic
control systems. For more information on STC's products and services, please
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