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Speed Camera 'flash'
MoneySavingUser
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in Motoring
do all cameras flash when they catch you speeding? will you always see it? or are there some that you won't know you have been caught until you get the letter?
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Some of the digital camera's (Truvelo?) have an infra-red flash, you wouldn't see this.
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a good game is to sometimes use the flash on an old camera to scare people who run fast through our village
havent done it for 2 years
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Truvelo cameras aren't type approved for use in the UK with infra-red.Strider590 wrote: »Some of the digital camera's (Truvelo?) have an infra-red flash, you wouldn't see this
Over here they are fitted with a magenta filter which gives off a violet tinged flash when set off and this flash is very noticeable as it is in the face of the oncoming driver.
http://www.wmsafetycameras.co.uk/cameras_work.php?cameramovie=FixedTruvelo
Truvelo, Gatso, HADECS, Monitron, Peek and the Red Speed cameras all flash. SPECS average-speed setups don't flash, nor do van and tripod based laser detection, like the LTI 20:20.I am a mortgage broker. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.0 -
Thanks for your responses0
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Kingstreet is correct about front facing Truvelos and their nearly invisible magenta flash.
The rear facing ones, e.g. gatso, redspeed and monitron, have a visible white flash.
SPECS average speed cameras use infra red (or sometimes a permanent white floodlight stood in the middle of the roadworks) and so have no visible flash.
So basically, rear facing ones flash and front facing ones don't.0
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