What does this black box do ?

[threespires]

This has just been put on the lamp post outside my home, anybody got any idea what it might be?

[eybic]

Looks like one of those things that tells you what speed you're doing or flashes a sad face when you go over the limit.

[TheEnd]

It's a lunchbox, used to hold sandwiches and an apple in inclement weather.

[barker22]

perhaps it is one of those traffic measuring boxes, soon to have the strips added across the road.
It could be fixed higher up to stop the local youths smashing it up?

[FurtiveFreddy]

It's a Pelicase

[minky monkey]

There was something similar around here a while back. It had air quality measuring kit in it. Could be along those lines.

[shep1001]

The box is just a heavy duty case I have one identical to it. Its whats inside it that will be interesting. Is there a little spy hole with a camera pointing at your bedroom window?

[Snowboy]

FurtiveFreddy said:

It's a Pelicase

What's a Pelicase for?
Carrying Pelis of course.

[Tyre Tread]

A bomb!

[anonymous-user]

It looks like a battery pack for a demountable vehicle activated sign - you know, the 20/30/40 mph roundels that flash at you if you approach too quickly.



Eta typical photos of the box here: http://www.westcotec.co.uk/static/products7e.html

Got a street view link to it? Might give more of a clue.

Edited by OpulentBob on Thursday 6th February 17:44

[Dave Hedgehog]

OpulentBob said:

It looks like a battery pack for a demountable vehicle activated sign - you know, the 20/30/40 mph roundels that flash at you if you approach too quickly.

the ones that display your speed stop working once you go 50mph over the limit >.<

[Greendubber]

...again...pelicase.

Its not a battery or anything like that...its a case thats stuck on the pole. As to whats in it....who knows.

[Snowboy]

Greendubber said:

...again...pelicase.

Its not a battery or anything like that...its a case thats stuck on the pole. As to whats in it....who knows.

Maybe there's a battery in it.

[anonymous-user]

I didn't mean the unit was a battery - it's the secure weatherproof casing that battery packs go in to for VAS units, among other things.

It'll have been put up by the highways dept, or someone working on their behalf.

[threespires]

OpulentBob said:

I didn't mean the unit was a battery - it's the secure weatherproof casing that battery packs go in to for VAS units, among other things.

It'll have been put up by the highways dept, or someone working on their behalf.

Seems a logical answer, thanks.
VAS = vehicle average speed ?

[jmorgan]

Nick it then wait see who turns up looking for it.

[bullitinhead]

Its a traffic counter( for serveys), its an alternative to the pressure cables in the road, ushually used on higher speed roads


Bullit

[Basic]

threespires said:

VAS = vehicle average speed ?

Vehicle Activated Sign

[threespires]

Basic said:

Vehicle Activated Sign

Thanks..

[Motorrad]

Shin up, smash the fker off and give us some internal pictures.

Otherwise accept this is part of monitoring your life by the powers that be.

ACCEPT!