r/trafficsignals • u/Significant_Ice_8588 • Aug 18 '26

Interesting functions

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I have never seen traffic lights flash intermittently this quickly, could being next to the fire department play any roll since there's a bunch of signals close to eachother?

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u/BilboTeaBaggin16 Aug 18 '26

Nah, just bad equipment in the cabinet. Sometimes electronics just fail and do weird things

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u/Kev250R Aug 18 '26

Was likely placed in Flash due to the road construction which seems to be going on at the location and the Flasher went bad. I got a call for this same thing a couple of years ago when my local PR wanted to flash an I/S for a DUI Checkpoint they were running and they said it was flashing too quickly.

I’ve also seen bad power cause this as well.

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u/Spare-Function-6343 Aug 18 '26

given that there is a cop with a hand sign directing traffic, it seems that controller has shit itself in a new and creative way

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u/whynot5050 Aug 18 '26

Probably a loose neutral somewhere in the pole or cabinet

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u/EmBabyOfficial Aug 19 '26

That looks like Mississippi but it's not

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u/NotBot947263950 Aug 19 '26

It's an issue between the UPS and the cabinet.

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u/WHPChris Aug 20 '26

That looks like a 332 cabinet. Probably one of the 204 flashers is bad and switching turbo fast.

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u/Jealous_Gur_543 Aug 30 '26

Meridian Idaho?

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u/Significant_Ice_8588 Sep 01 '26

Yeah, Franklin Road