Mysterious, invisible to the eye, flashing lights on rides.....

[MisterPenguin]

A better one to find is on the Gran Fiesta tour....For Example on this video...Go to 6:30 on this video to see the one at the exit area above the lamp....

If it's for 'video' purposes, it's doing so at 2.5 fps. Which is sufficient for their needs. If they have a lot of these and they're all recording, it saves space to go at that framerate.

 

[noodles]

My wife says this is how they interact with the chips Disney placed in our brains. She didn't get one.

 

[Chester&Hester Enthusiast]

My goodness, this thread is 14 years old. How on earth did this get bumped?

 

[BoarderPhreak]

My goodness, this thread is 14 years old. How on earth did this get bumped?

Zombie threads seem to be a growing trend around here of late...

 

[Chester&Hester Enthusiast]

Zombie threads seem to be a growing trend around here of late...

At least the last couple have been Classic WDW Magic, like Katiebug and The F&G Altercation. This one is just.... very random. I can't even figure out what the person would have been searching for to find this thread lol.

 

[ford91exploder]

Holy Thread Resurrection Batman, These are IR sensors to trigger effects and track vehicle positions,

For the technically inclined here are some from Allen Bradley

http://ab.rockwellautomation.com/Sensors-Switches/Photoelectric-Sensors

 

[larryz]

My wife says this is how they interact with the chips Disney placed in our brains. She didn't get one.

Good answer, but 14 years too late.

 

[Rlandrigan]

Those are Infrared lights, around 800-900nm, providing illumination to security camera and beam sensors. It's fun bringing an IR camera on rides and seeing what shows up

 

[Rlandrigan]

Ack! Thread necromancy!

 

[Tom P.]

Holy Thread Resurrection Batman, These are IR sensors to trigger effects and track vehicle positions,

For the technically inclined here are some from Allen Bradley

http://ab.rockwellautomation.com/Sensors-Switches/Photoelectric-Sensors

Wasn't Alan Bradley the name of Bruce Boxleitner's human character in Tron? I sense a conspiracy...

 

[Chester&Hester Enthusiast]

Holy Thread Resurrection Batman, These are IR sensors to trigger effects and track vehicle positions,

For the technically inclined here are some from Allen Bradley

http://ab.rockwellautomation.com/Sensors-Switches/Photoelectric-Sensors

A handful of the dark rides have CCTV cameras, so a few of them are part of the camera systems as well.

Fun trick for the uninitiated: use your phone's camera to record the front of your remote control while you push buttons. You'll see the same kind of thing.