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low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
Can anyone suggest a better way or ready made supplier for this?
I'd like to light up my new house's drive when the car arrives/leaves. (It's easy to damage the tyres on the stone edging on the drive ). But since it's a long drive & to save time/expense I don't want to mess about with buried mains cable. It seems all I need is a PIR that supplies a switched mains feed to one of these low voltage drive lights sets you can buy that just plug into a 13A socket.. Then just run low voltage cables to the lights (about 4 of them) But I'm not so sure about getting the switched output - I can wire up a PIR from the lighting circuit, but then I presumably have to put the switched output into a fused 13A socket for the lights transformer? Something tells me there's a better way.....? Can you get low voltage PIRs - I thought of alarm systems but I 'd need it to stay on for a few minutes? My other alternative would be to use one of those radio controlled mains sockets and keep a transmiter in the car, but then I have to remember to switch it off when leaving, unless you can get one with a timer . Can anyone help with suggestions - thanks Keith Drive is flat, approx 3 cars by 2 cars size , and has stone edging that has sharp edges, arranged in a curve that's hard to judge at night. |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:53:28 +0000 (UTC), "keith"
wrote: Something tells me there's a better way.....? Can you get low voltage PIRs - I thought of alarm systems but I 'd need it to stay on for a few minutes? My other alternative would be to use one of those radio controlled mains sockets and keep a transmiter in the car, but then I have to remember to switch it off when leaving, unless you can get one with a timer . How about a set of those solar powered garden lights, currently available from about £10 a pair? Use them to mark drive edge. -- Niall |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
In article , Niall
writes On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:53:28 +0000 (UTC), "keith" wrote: Something tells me there's a better way.....? Can you get low voltage PIRs - I thought of alarm systems but I 'd need it to stay on for a few minutes? My other alternative would be to use one of those radio controlled mains sockets and keep a transmiter in the car, but then I have to remember to switch it off when leaving, unless you can get one with a timer . How about a set of those solar powered garden lights, currently available from about £10 a pair? Use them to mark drive edge. Waste of time, a glow worm gives out more light. The mains PIR is the simplest solution, wire it to a fused spur box and connect the low voltage lights to that. -- Tim Mitchell |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
In article ,
Niall wrote: How about a set of those solar powered garden lights, currently available from about £10 a pair? Use them to mark drive edge. You might as well use white painted sticks for all the use they are... -- *Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny? Dave Plowman London SW 12 RIP Acorn |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:42:50 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman
wrote: In article , Niall wrote: How about a set of those solar powered garden lights, currently available from about £10 a pair? Use them to mark drive edge. You might as well use white painted sticks for all the use they are... Funny, the ones I use for a similar application are quite effective. -- Niall |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
Thanks for the suggestions - I think the solar ones are probably out anyway
, as I don't want to light up the drive all night, just when reversing the car , so I think that's either radio or PIR controlled. |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
In article ,
ARWadsworth writes "keith" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions - I think the solar ones are probably out anyway , as I don't want to light up the drive all night, just when reversing the car , so I think that's either radio or PIR controlled. It is a pity you cannot get hold of the "high intensity cats eyes" that they are using in some parts of the country on trial runs. There are a couple of these that I know about and they have been running for a few years. It is possible to drive a car on an unlit road without headlights and the eyes look like an airport landing strip. Does anyone know more about these "cats eyes" and how they work. http://optics.org/articles/news/8/4/3/1 -- Tim Mitchell |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
"Tim Mitchell" wrote in message ... In article , ARWadsworth writes "keith" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions - I think the solar ones are probably out anyway , as I don't want to light up the drive all night, just when reversing the car , so I think that's either radio or PIR controlled. It is a pity you cannot get hold of the "high intensity cats eyes" that they are using in some parts of the country on trial runs. There are a couple of these that I know about and they have been running for a few years. It is possible to drive a car on an unlit road without headlights and the eyes look like an airport landing strip. Does anyone know more about these "cats eyes" and how they work. http://optics.org/articles/news/8/4/3/1 Thanks. Adam |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
In article ,
ARWadsworth writes "Tim Mitchell" wrote in message ... In article , ARWadsworth writes "keith" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions - I think the solar ones are probably out anyway , as I don't want to light up the drive all night, just when reversing the car , so I think that's either radio or PIR controlled. It is a pity you cannot get hold of the "high intensity cats eyes" that they are using in some parts of the country on trial runs. There are a couple of these that I know about and they have been running for a few years. It is possible to drive a car on an unlit road without headlights and the eyes look like an airport landing strip. Does anyone know more about these "cats eyes" and how they work. http://optics.org/articles/news/8/4/3/1 Thanks. Do you know where there are any of these LED cats eyes? I have never seen any in "real life" on the road. -- Tim Mitchell |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
"Tim Mitchell" wrote in message ... In article , ARWadsworth writes "Tim Mitchell" wrote in message ... In article , ARWadsworth writes "keith" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions - I think the solar ones are probably out anyway , as I don't want to light up the drive all night, just when reversing the car , so I think that's either radio or PIR controlled. It is a pity you cannot get hold of the "high intensity cats eyes" that they are using in some parts of the country on trial runs. There are a couple of these that I know about and they have been running for a few years. It is possible to drive a car on an unlit road without headlights and the eyes look like an airport landing strip. Does anyone know more about these "cats eyes" and how they work. http://optics.org/articles/news/8/4/3/1 Thanks. Do you know where there are any of these LED cats eyes? I have never seen any in "real life" on the road. -- Tim Mitchell On the A61 between Barnsley and Wakefield at Woolley. And I saw some recently on the A638 near Upton, but I cannot remember the precise location. Adam |
low voltage PIR controlled lights for drive - where?
ARWadsworth wrote:
"Tim Mitchell" wrote in message Do you know where there are any of these LED cats eyes? I have never seen any in "real life" on the road. -- Tim Mitchell On the A61 between Barnsley and Wakefield at Woolley. And I saw some recently on the A638 near Upton, but I cannot remember the precise location. Rochdale-Blackburn at Norden. Rochdale-"Tim Bobbin Brew" - between Milnrow and Hollingworth Lake. Steve |
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