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Has anyone installed one of these red light changers
http://www.bikerhiway.com/red-light-changer-p-2.html

or something like it. I picked up one of these for the light near my house. I always have to run it becuase it will not change if i'm there by myself.

I was wondering if I should install it on the bottom tip of the fairing or a little further back on some metal part.

thanks
steve

from what i hear they do nothing.

I installed this one and I can say from personal experience - IT WORKS

you have to bring the bike to the stop bar, and sometimes over it, but it works. depends where the road crew buried the trigger loops

What part of the bike did you put yours, the fairing or metal part behind fairing?

thanks

Embedded wire loops in the pavement change the traffic light. By changing inductance in the wire.
The light changer would probably work better the closer it is to the road surface. It is just a magnet, as the article states.

You could change the light by placing a steel rod along the wire loop. Of course, not practical while you are riding a motorcycle

on the fairing just behine the front of the lower lip so that it is as far forward as possible to trip the light

sorry, I forgot to paste the website: http://www.greenlightstuff.com/trigger.html

Well, finally got a chance to prove/dis-prove the item. It works great. There's a light I go through everyday to work, before today, i've always had to wait forever or until a car pulled up behind me (I would usually run the red) to day I didn't even get to come to a complete stop before it changed, as soon as I crossed the buried wires the light change.

No more getting stuck at red lights and running them.

steve

cool, good to know!

Isnt this to do with the fact its a magnet or something (Rare earth magnet?)

yup, here's the description they give,

The RLC-40 Red Light Changer is a specially designed device which uses an extremely strong, patented Neodymium-Boron-Iron magnet to make a motorcycle visible to the traffic-sensor loops imbedded in the pavement at most traffic light intersections. These wire loops act like metal detectors and are designed to sense the metallic mass in an approaching vehicle, and to signal the traffic light to change from red to green, after a short delay. Unfortunately, most motorcycles don't have enough metal to set off the sensors, so the light doesn't "see" the motorcycle waiting at the red light. Mounted at the bottom of the motorcycle, the RLC-40, sends out a strong magnetic flux field, causing the sensor to "see" the motorcycle as a large steel vehicle, inducing a signal in the pavement sensor loops, thereby triggering the traffic light to turn green.

Got one, IT Works, but there is a sweet spot in the lane.

i did the exact same thing for about half the price with a real earth magnet, get em at most of the hardware stores here in the US and they are between $8 and $10 dollars, and yes they do work, and not only for traffic lights, the automatic gate opener on the gate at my dads ranch never worked for me until i got the magnet put in place. The benefit to the real earth magnet is that not only are they cheaper than a normal magnet they are much stronger so you only need a very small magnet to do the same job as a larger standard magnet.....smaller size means less weight.

NorCalHunter