Briggs 2.0 wrote:A few posts up I mentioned how pleased I was with the RAC beacon I bought to add to my winter car kit. Here's the video of the RAC beacon next to a standard 6v beacon like you see on top of traffic cones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W26cjtRFL1E
That's rather bright
Saw these a while ago
http://www.emergencyequipmentshop.co.uk ... afety-lamp
Was tempted by blue as everyone seems to respond to blue lights and if on a person or the ground from what I've read is legal as its just a torch rather than trying to impersonate a emergency service vehicle
I did get verbally abused about 2 years ago I pulled off a main road into a village which had a narrow D shaped road off the main a road to sort a offside puncture
I had stopped triangle behind amber led light bar on the roof hazards on yellow highvis jacket and trousers on
Idiot came belting round the bend and anchored up window down I was f ing stupid etc ect my lights were blinding in short he was traveling too fast and crapped himself when he saw the lights and yellow clad bloke fixing his car .....
The diplomatic reasoning didn't work he got note and more vocal to the point I decided to pick up the long knuckle bar and matched his verbal onslaught at which point he screached off
Just be aware people manage to hit these..
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If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine