J & J Sales and STC improve traffic safety in San Marcos, CA

TEMPE AZ 02/26/2007 - Solar Traffic Controls (STC) has furnished 19 "wireless" traffic controls systems to the City of San Marcos, CA. STC's southern California distributor, J & J Sales, worked with the city to provide the equipment which included SpeedCheck radar speed signs from Information Display Corp. with solar-powered systems from STC. Other configurations were dual 12-inch school flashers and combinations of school flashers and radar speed display systems. These were fielded primarily for school zone safety projects throughout the city.

All systems are designed to operate up to 4 hours per day. Some radar signs will run continuously. All scheduled operations are controlled using the STC-01 time clock which allows up to six on/off activations per day; 16 holiday skip periods; and 12 alternate schedule periods. School flashers feature dual 12-inch amber DC flashing beacons to alert motorists to reduced speed limits when flashing. The lamps have an optical output of 1100 candela on center: one of the brightest on the market thus making them more visible in a range of weather conditions especially bright sunlight.

The city also purchased a STC-01 Desktop Programmer package with additional memory chips. The Desktop Programmer allows city personnel to enter the school program into the desktop unit and upload it to the memory chips. Various school schedules may be loaded into different memory chips, taken to the field and downloaded to the field clocks. Field personnel do not have to take a computing device or related cables to download schedules into the clocks nor stand in front of each field clock to enter the program using a keypad.

Installation of the systems was completed by Select Electric under the supervision of a J & J technical staff member. Funding for the project was through a state grant. The city has reported a positive response from the public and is placing follow-on order for more systems.

About Solar Traffic Controls, LLC
Solar Traffic Controls (STC) designs and manufactures solar-powered traffic control systems for city, state and federal DOTs. Its primary products are solar-powered flashing beacon systems used for school zones and 24-hour applications. What sets STC's systems apart from its competitors: technical merit. For more information, please visit www.solar-traffic-controls.com