subject: The Variety And Uses Of Car Strobe Lights [print this page] car strobe lights prove useful in many different ways. These are quite versatile and hence can be used in various ways in different situations. A high performance car strobe light is in the form of an LED module with 4 to 6, 4-watt, highly effective super bright LEDs flashing together and covered with a wide angle dome. You can also find car strobes making use of colored strobe tubes that can be used as individual light sources and also combined with each other when you need brighter or high intensity lighting. The strobe tubes can be obtained in many different colors and so can the LEDs used in the LED modules. This provides more variety when bright lighting is needed.
You can also mount car strobe lights through 1 or even 0.75 inch mounting holes made through composite headlights or even tail, turn or break lights in the rear end of the vehicle. In some cases, strobe light heads are mounted near the grille to complement the headlights. This is one of the most common uses of a car strobe light and it proves to be useful for emergency vehicles headed on rescue or critical missions especially on darker roads. The strobes are powerful enough to illuminate the road as well as to warn approaching vehicles of the speeding emergency vehicle especially during bad weather or foggy conditions. Strobes can provide narrow and intensely focused beams of lighting.
The variety offered by car strobe lights is at many different levels. For example, the car strobe light can offer bright lighting in solid colors. You can also have bright lighting flashing at high speeds for greater visibility. You can also combine multi-colored LED modules for even more effective flashing. The variety offered by strobes includes the beam angle which can be narrow and focused or diffused and wide for greater coverage. Some modern strobes have a design where the strobe tube or the LEDs are in the middle of a parabolic reflector that sends the light in all possible directions. Translucent domes diffuse the lighting creating a wider aura when it is extremely dark all around.
The utility of car strobe lights can be enhanced through the use of Fresnel inner and outer lenses and domes which collect the unidirectional lighting of the LEDs and focus them outward. Some advanced models also make use of light house optics so that the light from the car strobe light head travels far without much scattering or dispersion. Strobes also have a built in capability to flash at high rates. So, they can provide solid bright lighting and flashy lighting and their attention grabbing capabilities are further enhanced through gyratory features as well. Rotating strobe beacons are quite popularly used on medical emergency and fire emergency vehicles to warn all the motorists on the road of the impending danger. Bigger light bars utilize the power of strobes perfectly through staggered installation for better coverage. They also come with corner strobes whose lighting and flashing can be independently controlled.
