What Is an LED Sequential Flare?
An LED sequential flare is a flashing light that’s designed to warn and guide vehicles through your worksite. The big difference with our Pi-Lit LED Sequential Flares is the sequential technology. Each flare has radio technology that links them together and allows them to create active visual guidance rather than just being a simple static light that often gets lost in the sea of orange.
What Situations Are LED Sequential Flares Designed For?
These flares are designed to provide early warning and guidance to vehicles on a road approaching either a temporary traffic management worksite such as stop goes or lane tapers or for emergency response vehicles who are first on a scene and need to set up some form of early traffic management and warning for motorists.
When these LED flares are placed underneath road cones, the entire cone lights up, making it a lot clearer and more visible to drivers compared to relying on headlights to illuminate the road cones. This gives drivers a lot more advanced warning and time to slow down before they reach the worksite.
What Comes in the Box?
One pack contains 10 flares and comes with a magnetic carry case. The entire case acts as the charging unit. And then we have two types of chargers, a wall plug charger and a vehicle charger that you can plug into your 12V power adapter.
How Do LED Sequential Flares Work?
Turning them on
As you pull each flare off the magnetic carry case, it turns on automatically, so there’s no need to manually activate or power on the flares. You’ll notice a green button light up for about 5 seconds, which means it’s turning on, and then it will start to flash. As you pull each flare from the carry case, it will activate, then automatically find the next flare in the pattern and start the sequential flashing effect.
As you pull each flare off, you need to wait until the lights have started flashing before you pull the next flare. This ensures that the sequential pattern joins up in the correct order.
Button controls
On each flare, there are two buttons: a round one and a square one. The round button controls the type of flash pattern, and the square button controls whether the light flashes out the top or the side of the flare.
Flashing orientation
By default, the flares will flash out of the sides.
Clicking the square button on any flare will cause the LEDs to flash from the top of the flare. This is a setting you want to use if you are placing them underneath road cones.
A second click of the square button will put them in gravity-operated mode. This means that if the flare is tilted, the flashing orientation will change depending on the direction it’s placed. This is a useful setting for first-response vehicles at a worksite because the magnets on the flare allow you to magnetise it to your tailgate or tow ball and illuminate your vehicle for approaching motorists.
Flash patterns
Pressing the round button on any one flare changes the flash pattern type. There are four different flash patterns to choose from:
- Fade off (default)
- Fast flash mode
- All flares flash simultaneously
- Constant light (no flash)
Turning them off
To turn off the flares, select any flare in the set and hold down the round button for 3-5 seconds; this will power down the entire set. You can then simply attach them back onto the magnetic carry case, and you’re good to go.
Range
When the LED flares are deployed on-site, you can get up to 15 meters of range between each flare.
Runtime
You’ll get around 20 hours of continuous runtime, depending on the flash pattern you use.
Charging
Charging works via contact points on the underside of the flare. So when they’re placed back on the carry case, they’ll magnetise on, and once the case is plugged in to power, they’ll be able to charge up.
To check the battery status of the flares, simply hold the square button down for three seconds, and a green light will flash. Five flashes indicate a full charge, and one flash indicates a low battery. Each set takes around five to six hours to fully charge from flat.
FAQs
How many flares will I need for my site?
This ten-pack set is typically enough for a usual site setup because with the ten to fifteen meter range between each flare, this allows you to cover up to 100 meters of lighting in a site.
Are there different pack sizes available?
The most common pack size is this 10-pack. However, for smaller emergency crews or fire and police, we also have a 6 or a 4 pack available. If you do need to create longer illumination, you can purchase two sets, which will automatically synchronise via radio frequency.
Can I link multiple sets of flares together, or operate two sets on the same site independently?
With the radio frequency, if you purchase two sets and set them out all at once, they will automatically synchronise. So you can link as many sets of flares together as you want to. However, if you are operating (for example) a stop-go site for temporary traffic management, and you want to have one set of flares guiding vehicles from one end, and likewise from the other end, we can supply you with two sets that have a different radio frequency programming so that they can operate independently rather than joining up.
What colours are available?
Orange is typically used for temporary traffic management, and we also have red, blue, or yellow available on indent order.
If you have any further questions about this system, then feel free to contact our team. We’re always here to assist.
