On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:03:30 +0100, Baron wrote:

PCPaul wrote:

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:13:20 +1000, Daniel wrote:

- commercial switches apart from the mass market '500W xenon floodlight
with PIR' are a silly price. Commercial weatherproof delay switches are
absolutely ridiculous.

£10 in Focus !

For a PIR floodlight, yes. But for a weatherproof delay switch? You must
be looking at different shelves to me - more like £25 for a pneumatic
switch and another £20 for the outdoor kit for it...


- (and finally a major reason), it seems like a nice project to do to
start getting into mains/analogue circuitry...

A good enough reason. :-)

I thought you'd understand ;-)