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A Brief Overview of Flashing Led Warning Lights

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Owning a company that provides private security to homes, companies or warehouses is a good business as it’s in direct service to the community. A lot of people associate private security companies to a bunch of bald, muscular guys dressed in black, standing in front of the door of a club or a restaurant maintaining the order and security of the waiting line.

Well, newsflash: it’s not quite like that. While that is only a part of the wide palette of services a private security company offers, there are other things they do as well. Among them are responses to criminal activities in objects they monitor, which often require the use of special technology in order for the action to be successful. Presenting in this post: flashing warning lights.

Flashing lights are used in many industries. However, it’s important to mention that the use of specific lights, such as the flashing led warning lights, is regulated by law in many countries. This means that although everyone can buy them, not everyone can use them. Therefore, it’s important to be properly informed about the specific regulations of using these lights before you buy any.

Among the subjects who are by law allowed to use (and required if I may say) warning lights are police cars, ambulances and official firefighting units. As you know, these vehicles have an advantage by law in traffic due to the fact that they’re to attend to a life-threatening situation. However, these aren’t the only subjects that can use these lights. As I said, in some countries, the law extends to other industries, such as private security companies, farmers’ transportation equipment as well as to certain types of warehouses that work with a rather dangerous and expensive load. They all are allowed to equip their vehicles with this type of lights as long as they don’t use them on the road.

In this particular case, we’re talking about companies that offer private security. They’re also allowed to have warning lights due to the sensitivity of their job, which often coincides with the one of the police. Think private security for parking lots, for malls, for private recreational properties, amusement parks and similar types of properties – all of these are entitled to private security and the company has the right to equip its units with warning lights. This implies that among others, private security companies make a rather large part of the consumer’s market for flashing led warning lights. I’ll explain to you in a few simple steps how to buy and use these specific lights.

Check the regulations for usage

It’s important to understand that flashing lights aren’t meant to be used as decoration or to add uniqueness to your vehicles or properties. Their use is regulated especially when it comes to using them on vehicles on the road. Even if you want to use them for protection of your property, you still need to check the regulations, as they’ll provide information on what colour should you choose and how strong should the sound be.

Choose the type of the light bulb

When you buy flashing lights, make sure you get those with the right light bulbs. You’ll be getting these to serve you for quite some time, so make sure they last. LED light bulbs are definitely more efficient, as they can provide more hours of work than incandescent bulbs.

Choose the colour of the bulb correctly

When it comes to flashing warning lights, there are regulations regarding which colour can be used by who and for what purpose. Red, green and yellow colours on warning lights are common and familiar to most of us, but there are also other colours in use: white and purple, to be exact. All of them are to be used in special occasions by special vehicles. For example, white lights are generally used by construction companies, whereas purple lights in some countries (although rarely nowadays) are used by funeral procession vehicles.