Strobe help....

So when driving uphill at 40 mph in a 70 mph section of interstate your lights will strobe instead of blink? Ooookaaaayyyy

 

One could assume so

 

Well, to clarify, I am only assuming #4 as I will accept #1 & #2 as facts provided by you...

As to #3, that's up to you I guess, I am just picturing a sparkling Christmas Tree as it climbs long steep hills... LOL ... Which isn't your case use per statements #1 & #2 above.

As to #5 & #6, one can again assume that I was not responding to those two as they were added after my response.

Cheers

 

I assumed it was gonna be for the flashy space look till i did a lil more reading....Saw a guy in mississauga back in 2006 in a chromed out kw..Radio blareing thinkin he didnt stink..As night fell he hit his colored strobes..#### truck had enough lights on it flickerin that i thought an alien landed....He was the kinda super trucker that walked around with the cowboy boots,chain drive wallet,super trucker hat ect on with a wad of cash he flashed..

OP..If its for a safety issue,have at it buddy,lots of sleepy truckers and 4 wheelers out there that are not payin attention....

 

I spent 30 years in emergency vehicles, mostly in Alaska. When vehicular strobes started to become popular (1970s), it seemed every fire & police chief with funds to burn started retrofitting fire, EMS, and police vehicles with strobes in lieu of the tried-and-true slower flashers. Our collision rates, as in other jurisdictions, began to climb. Civilian drivers often reported that, while being aware of *something* nearby making confusingly brief bursts of light, the "on" cycles of the strobes were too brief to allow drivers to locate the source of the multicolored bursts of light. I was the EMS chief at the time in Fairbanks. I recalled a talk by an opthamologist at an EMS symposium just after our strobe transition. His research indicated similar fIndings to our empirical data: strobes, while great at attracting attention in peripheral vision, extinguished so quickly that most drivers thought, "WTF was that flash?"
His suggestion was that any vehicles displaying strobes ALSO have a mix of steady and slowly flashing lamps high enough to be seen and visible from all sides. The strobes would the grab drivers' attention, and they'd look and see the slower red lamps and figure out how to get out of the way.
Incidentally, at the time blue flashing lights in Alaska were reserved for the exclusive use of firefighters' and EMTs' private vehicles to request the right-of-way whilst responding to emergency calls.
By the way, the same eye doc who published the strobe problem study also identified blue lights as the most detrimental color to drivers' night vision. These days when I approach a police scene on a highway, especially in jurisdictions that don't mandate substantially lower emergency light power levels (used to be a "night" setting for light bars), it's not uncommon to have my eyes "numbed" by the extremely bright lamps, especially when some adrenalin-fueled rookie also parks with his/her/its headlights still on wigwag or, just as commonly, parked opposing traffic with the high beams on. <sigh>
But back to the OP: if you gotta run strobes because you perceive your vehicle as an extraordinary hazard, please consider using just one or two strobes in addition to whatever other warning devices you display. After all, no sense making your turn signals get lost in the "Close Encounters" mother ship livery it could easily become.

73; I'm back to the CB section.

 

I know that from time immemorial, California has required a steady burning red lamp to the front and a flashing amber to rear. Five years of my EMS career were spent in Los Angeles County, so I got used to that apparent anachronism. ☺