Orion Warning Triangle Kit - 3 Emergency Reflectors

Video Transcript for Orion 3 Emergency Warning Triangle Kit Review

Hi everyone, it's Evangeline here at etrailer.com and today we are looking at our Orion Triangle Warning Kit here at etrailer. We have three different triangles here, so we have the Peterson and the Orion and the Erickson Triangle Warning Kits. We have all three of them together, you can see they looks very similar. Let's take a look at how they reflect. As I point my lights at them, you can see how they reflect off a bright white light from an oncoming car. Now the Peterson and the Orion are very similar.

So when I want to compare them, I compare these two with the Erickson. I personally like the Erickson a little bit more because when you shine a light on it, its reflectiveness or reflective surface has a little bit more visibility as well as its lighter color. These warning triangles are a great option especially if you have a large bus, RV or commercial vehicle that requires to have these on your vehicle. Now if you have a smaller car like I do, I also like to have these in my trunk, just so it makes me feel a little extra safe when I'm on the side of the road trying to fix my car or I broke down. It comes out of your case just like this and it's really easy to use and fit up.

So what I do is I bring this forward and then I lift my two and up and latch them together here at the top. And just like that, you ready to go. The base or support is pre-weighted and it's ready to stand winds up to 40 miles per hour. Well, it does though its job and it's great for emergency situations. It is made of plastic, so please be careful as you put it together especially for the plastic tabs 'cause they can break off if not handled properly.

These warning triangles come inside this nice case, you can see it's nice and sturdy, it has the sticker on top talking about what's inside. And when you open it up, you can see that it has instructions for how to set them up around your vehicle as well as how to set up the triangles themselves. Now there's two different ways to set these up depending on what situation you are in, let's take a look at that. On a two-lane road, what you need to do is put the first triangle 10 feet away facing the traffic, then you put the second triangle 100 feet in front of your vehicle and then the third triangle 100 feet behind your vehicle. The second way to do this is when you pull over on a one-way or a divided highway, is to put them 10 feet away, 100 feet away and then 200 feet away from the rear of your vehicle and facing the approaching traffic.

My final thoughts about these is I like how these triangles work to bring awareness or to show oncoming traffic that you are there by the side of the road. Now if you do need some extra source of light, I highly recommend picking up another emergency roadside kit which comes with flares or flashers so that these aren't the only source of awareness or light or reflection on the road showing that you are there. And that was a look here at the Orion Triangle Warning Kit here at etrailer.com..