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  2. Emergency vehicle lighting - Wikipedia

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    Red and blue emergency lights on a fire engine in Canberra, Australia. Emergency vehicle lighting, also known as simply emergency lighting or emergency lights, is a type of vehicle lighting used to visually announce a vehicle's presence to other road users. A sub-type of emergency vehicle equipment, emergency vehicle lighting is generally used ...

  3. Light-emitting diode - Wikipedia

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    The flat bottom surfaces of the anvil and post embedded inside the epoxy act as anchors, to prevent the conductors from being forcefully pulled out via mechanical strain or vibration. A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron ...

  4. Aviation obstruction lighting - Wikipedia

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    Aviation obstruction lighting. Emley Moor transmitting station using a red warning beacon. Aviation obstruction lighting is used to enhance the visibility of structures or fixed obstacles which may conflict with the safe navigation of aircraft. Obstruction lighting is commonly installed on towers, buildings, and even fences located in areas ...

  5. Automotive lighting - Wikipedia

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    Automotive lighting. Appearance. For the company owned by Magneti Marelli, see AL-Automotive Lighting. Extensively redundant rear lighting on a Thai tour bus. A motor vehicle has lighting and signaling devices mounted to or integrated into its front, rear, sides, and, in some cases, top.

  6. Emergency vehicle equipment in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Electronic sirens have replaced two-tone horns on most emergency vehicles. Emergency vehicle equipment is used in the United Kingdom to indicate urgent journeys by an emergency service. This usage is colloquially known as "blues and twos", which refers to the blue lights and the two-tone siren once commonplace (although most sirens now have a ...

  7. Light characteristic - Wikipedia

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    A Morse code light is light in which appearances of light of two clearly different durations (dots and dashes) are grouped to represent a character or characters in the Morse Code. For example, "Mo(A)" is a light in which in each period light is shown for a short period (dot) followed by a long period (dash), the Morse Code for "A".

  8. Corona discharge - Wikipedia

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    Corona discharges represent a significant power loss for electric utilities. Corona discharge from a spoon attached to the high voltage terminal of a Tesla coil. A corona discharge is an electrical discharge caused by the ionization of a fluid such as air surrounding a conductor carrying a high voltage.

  9. Radar beacon - Wikipedia

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    When a racon receives a radar pulse, it responds with a signal on the same frequency which puts an image on the radar display. This takes the form of a short line of dots and dashes forming a Morse character radiating away from the location of the beacon on the normal plan position indicator radar display. The length of the line usually ...