The problem with dual amber lights is that they thwart one of the biggest features of American-style side marker lights: being able to determine the front and rear of the car from the side in the dark. Why would you want the same color at both ends? Is there a legal requirement that the side indicators must be on the outside line of the car, I thought about mounting a round orange LED to the hole on the nose cone (where the old headlight bracket is attached), I do not see any criteria defining that it must be on the outer line of the car (i.e. the front wing). This is a fairly concise explanation of why side marker lights exist: to make the car visible from the side at night, give an idea of the length of the car, and convey the direction in which the car is moving through the colors of the lights. The side of the car is the largest part of the car! Why wouldn`t you want to provide him with night vision? What is the benefit of making page markups illegal? Did they hurt people in any way? Harm the common good? This is madness. By the way, the SAE J592 standard for side marker lights seems to have an issue date of 1937, which is absolutely shocking to me, and even more shocking, the document describes the color of the front markers as yellow: The purpose of side-marker lamps is to make a vehicle visible from the side to drivers of other vehicles, at night or at other times, when visibility is limited, including dawn and dusk [SL, pp. 5-13]. Advance warning of lights has the potential to allow the driver to avoid a collision if approaching at an angle at night. The purpose of placing the lights as close as possible to the extremities of the vehicle is to determine its length. The purpose of making the front light yellow and the rear light red is to indicate the direction of travel of the vehicle. For example, NHTSA described side-marker lamps in its July 1983 technical report, An Evaluation of Side Marker Lamps for Cars, Trucks and Buses: To meet photometric requirements, the light from the light sources must be collected and directed, diverted, and distributed. Several optical components are used for this purpose.
What`s most striking to the general public, however, is that European standards require safer and more proven yellow rear turn signals, while America remains one of three backward countries that still allow the red taillight or brake light to simply flash and pretend to be a turn signal. Yes, Mother Friends, it`s time to talk about side marker lights, so wherever you are, whatever you do, drop it and announce loud and clear to everyone around you that you are about to read about side marker lights, so you need complete silence and everyone had better leave you alone. In the United States, side lighting became mandatory for the 1968 model year, initially requiring a single bulb, either clear or yellow at the front and rear. Until recently, many companies did not develop category 6 side amplifiers due to the cost of homologation (homologation). A recent revision of the law allowing Class 5 lights in certain circumstances means there is more choice, with side markers also playing a dual role as side repeaters. May God bless America, land of amber and red. At least on the sides. The requirement for different braking signals can be met either by a larger signal area, by an increase in brightness, or by the addition of an increased flashing frequency. Depending on the deceleration, the brake lamp is activated in three stages: the greater the deceleration, the more the LEDs light up. In the event of a sudden stop, part of the red brake light flashes as an additional warning function. And in this dream of lighting standards, America`s contribution should be our fantastic work on side-marker lights. I guess it`s possible that some of you reading this are not familiar with marker lights, a condition that puts me off but can be easily resolved.
I don`t care if your child burns; Someone else will take care of it, because right now you need to focus on SAE J592 and the combination of reflectors and bulbs that form side marker lights. At that time, there were some fun experiences of side markers, such as the beautiful firebird-shaped taillight of the Pontiac Firebird: both types of lighting (5 and 6) have a high light output and a directional light beam specially designed for this purpose, unlike side marker lights. A good summary of European standards for side-marker lamps can be found in a 1999 document entitled European Side-markers Effect on Traffic Safety: . So all those yellow branding cars seem to be legal after all. I have to research the 1937 play. From a technical point of view, luminaires of categories 5 and 6 are luminaires with side repeaters (direction indicators) approved according to ECE Regulation 6. Category 6 is the brighter of the two lamps, as defined below; Frankly, the European approach to side-marker lamps makes no sense. You`ll need a turn signal in the middle of the car, but that`s it for side lighting. It is generally not understood that the installation of direction indicators (illumination of side repeaters) is limited to category 6 side amplifiers. However, this is not the case and you can use a category 5 lighting plan approved under UNECE Regulation 6. You can add Category 5 side repeaters by Cat.
6 You should prefer. For vehicles over 9 m in length (categories M2, N3, N2 & N3*), you can use a maximum of 3 Cat. 5 lamps or 1 additional Cat 6. This is illustrated in the figure below, but not mandatory, although many fleet operators have adopted this type of equipment to improve road safety and reduce motor vehicle collisions. Combined markers and indicators in 12/24v. Available in a range of connectors and cable lengths. What`s that? Yellow? Aside from a few Fiats from the 70s, I can`t think of a car that has yellow side marker lights, and with the Fiat 124s that seem to have them, I always assumed they were faded or badly plastic. But all the other side marks were still orange, which is orange, not yellow. So as long as you can see that the front turn signal flashes when you`re standing a meter away from the rear bumper (or probably where it would be), turn signals are considered versatile. I think you can probably specify the form of the standard indicators, but in any case, the tester didn`t mention it during my TECH check.
Many TUV testers don`t seem to worry about them, I`ve heard that if you rotate the turn signal gimbals slightly outwards, it makes them visible from the 1m point of the rear wheel. I considered putting some on the side of the car (under the rear hood lock), but I never made it. From a technical control point of view, I wouldn`t mind, but sometimes I think it could be good from a safety point of view – the more likely it is that other cars will see what I`m doing, the better, but now I barely use mine on the road, I expect it to stay far down the list of improvements. After 1991, Europe would have side markers if you really wanted them, but they all had to be orange, like the Mustang I saw recently in Munich: Reading Jonathan`s link, it seems that the side indicator needs an approved marking with the number 5: Exterior lights – whether mounted at the front, side or rear of the vehicle – inform other road users of their signals and are therefore responsible for road safety in the Significantly. Until 1993, European legislation for the installation of passenger car lighting was based on Directive 76/756/EEC, which dates from 1976 and prohibited the use of side marker lamps, as introduced in the United States in 1937 with SAE J592e. In 1991, the Directive was renewed with Directive 91/663/EEC, in which vehicles with a length of less than 6 metres could have side markings according to the European vision: orange at the front and rear. The rear side markings may be red when integrated into the taillights.
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