traffic lights meltring
Those new LED taffic lights that we are seeing lateley are melting in the latest heat wave. Mexico news daily had a photo of one that looks like something out of a Dali painting.
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You are missing the point. Raw brightness isn't the goal with street lighting. For a small focused spot, LED can put out blinding light with very few watts but you will have a hard time seeing anything just outside that pool of light.
Yes, you need enough but more important is too limit variations. This isn't just about directly blinding a driver by shining the light into their eyes but looking at a well lit area and then a poorly lit area, you will have a much harder time seeing in the poorly lit area.
If you are just talking about an isolated crosswalk with no other lighting in the area, what you did should work fine but that is not a typical application for street lighting.
Yes, you need enough but more important is too limit variations. This isn't just about directly blinding a driver by shining the light into their eyes but looking at a well lit area and then a poorly lit area, you will have a much harder time seeing in the poorly lit area.
If you are just talking about an isolated crosswalk with no other lighting in the area, what you did should work fine but that is not a typical application for street lighting.
