E-Z Pass Sensors

 

I saw an old thread about traffic light sensors and I wanted to get
some feedback on this as well, since it's similar.

I run into problems on the highway sometimes getting my Speedmaster to
set off the sensors in the toll booths and I got cited w/ a photograph
for running the toll, despite the fact that the picture shows me
holding the e-z pass tag in my hand as I coast through. Awesome.

The sensors are the same as on the street, in that they respond to
pressure, but here's the one caviat: You are charged *per axle* in
tolls, so the sensor has to go off at least twice before it will
activate the EM signal to your RFID transponder. It's very rare when I
can even get these things to go off once, and stopping on them doesn't
help because, as I said, you have to get it to go off twice.

Anyone have similar problems? My bike weighs about 700 lbs with me on
it.

 

sirrix wrote:

EZ Pass does not run on pressure

--
-Fred W

 



Yes it does. It's a common misnomer that the transponder in your car
is actually *transmitting*. It does not do that. It is an RFID card,
similar to a mobil speedpass or one of those pay-quick things on a
Visa card. It can only send information out when it is engaged by an
electro magnetic field. (Hence your transponder has no batteries in
it...)

The E-Z Pass tolls are not constantly sending out the field, otherwise
people would routinely get charged twice and there would be no way to
tell if someone just ran through the toll w/o paying unless you think
that people check every second of toll booth video footage. Also,
without sensors, 18-wheelers could get away with paying a
substantially smaller toll if they just borrowed a friend's tag from a
sedan.

Pressure sensors activate the EM field which activate your
transponder.

If you're going to post erroneous information, please put in more than
one sentence just saying "does not, no backsies." Info would help.

That being said - can anyone give advice w/ their personal experiences
w/ these toll systems?

 

sirrix wrote:


I've got an E-Zpass mounted on the inside of the windshield of my
R1100RT, and it works fine. I use it for the NY Thruway.

--
   -bts
   -Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

 

Beauregard T. Shagnasty replied to hisself:


..continuing ... and it worked as expected Friday morning as I headed
west on the Thruway while heading out to a BMW rally in NW Pennsylvania.
I slow to about 10 mph as I approach the E-ZPass lane, and the
blinkinlights say "Thank You."  I don't have to hold the transponder up
in the air.

The charge, with 50% motorcycle discount, already appears on my
statement at the E-ZPass web site.

For New Yorkers:  http://e-zpassny.com/

--
   -bts
   -Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck