On Thu, 24 May 2012 02:53:05 +0000 (UTC)
(Edward A. Falk) wrote:

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Actually, simply waving my hand in front the the sensor was enough to get
it to trigger, but as soon as you stop waving, it goes transparent again.

Tried to think of some flickering light source I could use that I would
trust my vision to, and decided it wasn't a good idea.

Suspected as much, my idea/thought was too obvious...

I agree on not trusting it to stay dark. If you really have a
hankering to look at the sun and a few bucks to burn, look into getting
a filter that goes over the far end of a telescope. Something like I put
in a link to earlier in my response to Jon. For viewing the sun even a
moderate spotting scope would work fine with one of those filters. Just
being able to see sun-spots in real-time is interesting.

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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