About the Project

The project's idea is to present an alternative power supply for traffic lights. Currently, traffic lights use incandescent lamps that consume between 50 and 100 Watts each one, but most of the, are being  replaced per LED lamps. Reduction of consumption is about 70% with use of LED lamps.

We will use a solar panel to power our lights, so we can reduce consumption. Unfortunately you can't make a percentage relationship about the new consumption, because the weather conditions interfere in the results.Obviously, the implementation of the process is a high investment, but over time with minimized consumption values, so, it is a profitable investment.

Beyond of the alternative power supply, a common power supply is needed. The idea in the project is that the lights can be as powered by the solar panel. For this, we will make electronic circuit, to be used at night and on cloudy days.

Our model will be arranged with LEDs, CI counters, resistors, capacitors, solar plate and other components. It's not a trust relationship with the real scene, as the logic adopted at traffic lights is different from ours, because they are powered by AC power supply.

In our project, there are just two student. Mateus Prado 002201300631; Thiago Mardegam 002201201415