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Expensive Electricity Bill
On 2005-12-29, wrote:
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There is 6 outside 500 watt lights, PIR activated, of these 4 are
trigerred maybe 6 times each per day (a guesstimate), theyre timed to
operate for just a couple of mins each.
6 floodlights! OK, putting aside your issue about excessive leccy bills
do you _really_ need this much security lighting?
As it turns out, govt. stats http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/statistics46.htm
show that only 27% of burglaries occur during the evening; when a person
is likely to notice their security floodlights (but see later).
I realise that people think it makes their houses safer, but
unless you investigate each incident, you may find that all
the floodlights do is illuminate your vulnerable areas
and help any bad people break in, rather than putting them off.
Sadly, no-one has any information on buglaries that didn't happen (deterrence)
Take a look at this website, it's got some useful stuff
Pete
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