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12" CGE Pedestrian Signal
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Here's a nice old CGE pedestrian signal, that's in need of some fixing up. I've already straightened up the bottom visor but I'll post another pic of it when I'm finished fixing it up. Here's a picture of how it would look mounted up on a pole. Note that CGE later sold off their signals division, which is why the one in Niall's pic is labelled Fortran.
Here is it again after I've somewhat straightened up the bottom visor and cleaned up the signal. I also touched up the walk lens and re terminated the socket leads too. The visors still needs some more work and a new coat of paint inside, not sure if I'm going to paint it.
CGE (and their Fortran successors) pedestrian signals was also a common sight in the GTA. They started to dwindle with the advent of LED as Markham replaced all the old pedestrian signals with single section LEDs ones in the mid 2000s. Other cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton still have some of these CGE peds in use. They have all been retrofitted to LED though. Toronto chose to replace the top section with a LED hand/man insert and the bottom with a countdown insert while Mississauga and Brampton only replaced the top section with a LED hand/man insert and disabled the bottom section.
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![12" CGE Pedestrian Signal
Here's a nice old CGE pedestrian signal, that's in need of some fixing up. I've already straightened up the bottom visor but I'll post another pic of it when I'm finished fixing it up. [url=http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-6226] Here's [/url] a picture of how it would look mounted up on a pole. Note that CGE later sold off their signals division, which is why the one in Niall's pic is labelled Fortran.
Here is it again after I've somewhat straightened up the bottom visor and cleaned up the signal. I also touched up the walk lens and re terminated the socket leads too. The visors still needs some more work and a new coat of paint inside, not sure if I'm going to paint it.
[url=http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss50/joseph_125ON/My%20Collection/ec7b56b6.jpg][img]http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss50/joseph_125ON/Meta/3d69f6c6.jpg[/img][/url]
CGE (and their Fortran successors) pedestrian signals was also a common sight in the GTA. They started to dwindle with the advent of LED as Markham replaced all the old pedestrian signals with single section LEDs ones in the mid 2000s. Other cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton still have some of these CGE peds in use. They have all been retrofitted to LED though. Toronto chose to replace the top section with a LED hand/man insert and the bottom with a countdown insert while Mississauga and Brampton only replaced the top section with a LED hand/man insert and disabled the bottom section.
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12\" CGE Pedestrian Signal
Here's a nice old CGE pedestrian signal, that's in need of some fixing up. I've already straightened up the bottom visor but I'll post another pic of it when I'm finished fixing it up. [url=http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-6226] Here's [/url] a picture of how it would look mounted up on a pole. Note that CGE later sold off their signals division, which is why the one in Niall's pic is labelled Fortran.
Here is it again after I've somewhat straightened up the bottom visor and cleaned up the signal. I also touched up the walk lens and re terminated the socket leads too. The visors still needs some more work and a new coat of paint inside, not sure if I'm going to paint it.
[url=http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss50/joseph_125ON/My%20Collection/ec7b56b6.jpg][img]http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss50/joseph_125ON/Meta/3d69f6c6.jpg[/img][/url]
CGE (and their Fortran successors) pedestrian signals was also a common sight in the GTA. They started to dwindle with the advent of LED as Markham replaced all the old pedestrian signals with single section LEDs ones in the mid 2000s. Other cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton still have some of these CGE peds in use. They have all been retrofitted to LED though. Toronto chose to replace the top section with a LED hand/man insert and the bottom with a countdown insert while Mississauga and Brampton only replaced the top section with a LED hand/man insert and disabled the bottom section.
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To count only in flashing dont walk (not in walk), leave the blue wire from the countdown disconnected.
The electronics for counting are within the countdown fixture...there is no additional wiring needed at the cabinet.
The DIP switches allowed for everything to be wired then you just select what functions you wanted. Whether counting was to occur during walk or just in flashing dont walk was one feature.
Other features included flashing the numbers in sync with the flashing hand, stopping counting at 1 (4...3...2...1...dark) leaving "0" lit all the time. There were also test functions, lighting 88 steady, and on some models, lighting each segment one at a time and scrolling at 1 second intervals.