I’ve used a fair amount of construction machinery and always wondered if there’s an optimal way/strategy for the placemt of amber warning lights.

Anyone know of like a handbook about lighting of machinery?

  • kamillsOP
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    2 days ago

    I’m thinking of the beacons. I’m from Europe, and all working machinery, working in public spaces has to have amber flashing beacon lights.

    Say I have a steam roller. Is if I mount 100 flashing beacons on it, It might make it hard to judge how my roller is moving to other people. Is there some general rules (not laws necessarily) about how many, placement, flashing patters and brightness?

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Ah i think you’d wanna search for human factors info on beacons. Ive got this book called human factors design handbook 2nd edition, and has chapters on lighting , visual displays, labels on controls, etc.

      One of the sections recommends for industrial illumination to refer to IES lighting handbook and the MIL-STD-1472 and NASA-STD-3000 but those are all for US.