Highly Visible Lights

[djw2k3]

We have the need for several outdoor heavy duty lights that preferably need to be:

- Distguishable off or on from 100m away, during daylight.
- Visible from 360 degrees
- Ability to flash or remain solid.
- Green or Red colour
- not a rotating beacon (as the need to for it to appear 'solid')

Anyone have any ideas? Have exhausted electrical catalogues for something suitable.

Thanks in advance

djw

 

[knobhead]

Just as a suggestion, can you find a company that supplies lighting equipment to airfields and aviation in general?

I'm sure they'll have something like that.

Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.

 

[Illuminator]

Try looking for a "bollard light" on the internet. They are usually placed in the ground, but you could mount it on a pole if necessary.

http://www.hydrel.com

can manufacture a custom fixture for you, but I would try to find a standard product first.

 

[IRstuff]

360° in azimuth? and elevation?

One possibility might be to use super-bright LED's such as those found in traffic lights, coupled with a convex parabolic mirror, such as the ones below, but used in reverse:

http://www.metropole360.com/technology_camera.cfm

http://www.cycloview.tv/360 One VR - User Review.htm

http://www.cycloview.tv/360 One VR - User Review.htm

TTFN

 

[djw2k3]

Thanks all, will do some hunting.

IRstuff, good question. Basically the lights general shape is to be the top half of a sphere.

djw

 

[MintJulep]

The lights used on tall smoke stacks and towers seem to match all of your criteria.

I don't know who makes them but it shouldn't be too hard to find out.

 

[Slowzuki]

Also try companies who supply ship (boat) lights as those are the colours they use.
Ken