History

In 1992, a friend of Bill Andreas purchased five surplus traffic lights. These lights were removed from service and had wires still hanging out of them. Bill wanted to hang one in his basement pool room, but he also wanted it to light up and work like it should. Extensive searching yielded nothing in the way of practical solutions—there were no off-the-shelf solutions.

He needed a simple, reliable, compact, and low-cost design. That’s where we came in. Our first generation units were built in 1992 and installed in the five lights. They exceeded all expectations. By the mid 1990s, many older incandescent signals were being replaced with LEDs, and there were many signal heads on the surplus market. Most people wanted their traffic light to work like it would on the street. Word spread, and we received inquiries from across the US and Canada. Word also spread among collectors, and soon we were supplying hundreds per year.

Into the 2000s and beyond, Lights To Go continues to supply LED traffic lights and controls all over North America and many other parts of the world. We still work with the man-cave crowd all the way up to Fortune 500 companies, the Federal Government, and even Hollywood movie studios. We’ve partnered with many companies who spec out our HP200 lights for their own products and applications. It is not uncommon for electrical contractors nationwide to install our lights and controls in many different applications. Whether you are a hobbyist, a small city in need of some traffic lights, or you have a manufacturing or industrial application, Lights To Go can help!