How to choose the led tape light for automatic gate barriers and access control arms?

In order to improve the visibility in darkness and reduce the possible fatal vehicles crashing, people prefer to use led strip lightings on automatic gate barriers & drop arms and garage doors,like a lot of turnstiles illuminated by colored led tape lights for conspicuity & safety consideration.

But how to choose an ideal lighting part for access controls and parking gate barriers? Be sure the led lights in high quality, or it will be not a single quality matter of led lights ONLY, but the whole access control equipment set, which is always at a cost of several thousands dollars.

As a professional led strip light and linear light manufacturer,here we would like to give some suggestions as below:

1) led source should be in anti-ram inside structure, as boom barriers are more possibly impacted by accidents. People can choose SMD3528 led source as the red and green colored alarms and signals backlight, and RGB SMD5050 for more innovation design aim.If you prefer to longer lengths and save the cost of power supply, you can choose smd3528 led tape light. The leds from Copin are always packaged by golden wires and copper holder,which ensures the ductility in life and better heat dissipation raw materials.Certainly, some people like orange and amber led light for traffic signal lamps, we can OEM  amber and yellow color led strip light for you!

2) surface protection be another important consideration for led strip lights in safety gate barriers and access control .It’s well known that barrier gates are always outdoor,so the electric parts like the led tape lights have to be waterproof. There are three different waterproof surface dealings for people’s option,like IP65 led tape light, IP67 led light strip,IP68 led tape lights. All of them are workable for parking gate barriers and safety operators,and top brands in safety & security industrial field always choose IP68 (silicon gel + injection process) and they always try to provide perfect product for the market:

3)adhesive on backside,sometimes is disregarded by people, as it’s put inside the alum profile exactly.Actually the adhesive is not only for sticking and fixing, but also being as an intermediary for heat-dissipation. If the led light strips can not distribute heats on time, the lifespan will be effected a lot, especially in summer when the outer temperature is very high.
Copin’s led strips are being with special 3M VHB adhesive on backside, like 3M8805,5608,8810 ect,which is more sticking for metal surface and quickly heat radiation in applications.

4)connecting cables, especially for flexible or folding and flexible gate operator barriers,whether long or short, you have to consider the high load dynamic system,even it’s mechanical equipment. We reconmmend chloroprene rubber cables and high flexibility TRV/PUR wires as the priors.

Hope you choose the right light for your branded parking gate barriers and pedestrian  access controls system.

Please do not hesitate to contact us : sales@copinled.com or Send us Inquiry for further details and prices.