Traffic automated turn arrows

[Orpheus]

Anybody have any experience with getting a ticket for running a light at a traffic-automated signal? The other night, on the way home from work, I waited through three full cycles of a traffic light without getting a green arrow, so I ran the light without knowing that there was a traffic camera at that intersection(until I saw the flash). Most of the lights around here have this problem, and usually a car will pull up beside me that triggers the signal, but the other night, on my way home from work, the roads were empty and I got tired of waiting. It seems that there is some sort of provision for this situation in most states, and I think I'll argue that the light was malfunctioning and I proceeded through the light under that assumption. If there was a living, breathing officer at the scene, I probably wouldn't have gotten a ticket at all, but since there was a camera, I'll probably have to take it to court and fight it. Any thoughts?