All the radio-controlled Vectras in south Cleveleys were dayburning the other day. I take it there had been a fault with the branch node? It looked really strange to see them all lit-up in bright sunshine!

One of the radio-controlled Vectras has dayburned ever since it was installed, it must have a faulty antenna.

There is a 'Pigeon' fited to a WRTL Arc in Brockholes although non of the lanterns along the A616 has any radio nodes fitted to them just the exisitng photocells.

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They'll be starting a trial. Normally the 'Pigeon' always gets fitted first

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I think the 'Pigeon' has been there for a good 8 months now even though I only just noticed, Jenny (my former gf) told me about an odd looking photocell in her village of Brockholes but she couldn't remember where.

My only guess is that if the trials are a success maybe Calderdale may start RCS trials.

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A handful of lanterns in Brockholes now have nodes fitted along side the photocells so i'd imagine that the photocells are being kept for backup in case the RCS fails.

In Lockwood quite a few have been fitted mainly on a few of the Libra's. None of the Alpha 8's / WRTL's MRL6' have them fitted unless their for replacement.

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Normally, the ballasts will operate full-time (ie "dayburning") if a radio control node is not connected at all - hence why my QSM with an intelligent ballasts works. So, I'm not totally sure how a photocell would work in conjunction with that: because if the cell is wired in to control the supply TO the ballast, then the ballast will be dead during daylight hours, and so data from the lantern can't be supplied to the system... and I would have also thought that every night the system would have to re-callibrate itself.

Maybe the photocells are there temporarily until the RCS is fully set up, and then the cells will be wired out, or something...

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One is dayburning and that's the 'Pigeon' fitted lantern, a WRTL Arc. What i think what has happened is that KMC has disconnected the Nema socket and forgetting to enable the RCS node in activation, Ooops.

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Just another update and Calderdale have started using RFS in Sowerby Bridge.

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If they're using the Zodion system then at least the council don't exactly have to go very far for new equipment!

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I think that's the reason with the trial in Sowerby Bridge.

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