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It is starting all over again!!!
The new LED External Floodlights are attracting new people to having
external lighting. Unfortunately they seem to get fitted by people who think that the centre of the beam should point to the boundary of the property - which leads to 50% of the light spilling over as annoyance light. As they are cheap to run - many seem to be on for longer than the Halogen PIR ones where I think preople were a bit cautious about running times. |
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On 14/12/16 17:24, DerbyBorn wrote:
The new LED External Floodlights are attracting new people to having external lighting. Unfortunately they seem to get fitted by people who think that the centre of the beam should point to the boundary of the property - which leads to 50% of the light spilling over as annoyance light. As they are cheap to run - many seem to be on for longer than the Halogen PIR ones where I think preople were a bit cautious about running times. And they dont respond to air rifles as well either. |
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"DerbyBorn" wrote in message .236... The new LED External Floodlights are attracting new people to having external lighting. Unfortunately they seem to get fitted by people who think that the centre of the beam should point to the boundary of the property - which leads to 50% of the light spilling over as annoyance light. As they are cheap to run - many seem to be on for longer than the Halogen PIR ones where I think preople were a bit cautious about running times. the two I got were very cheap o run they stopped working after about a day .....i |
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"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in
: "DerbyBorn" wrote in message .236... The new LED External Floodlights are attracting new people to having external lighting. Unfortunately they seem to get fitted by people who think that the centre of the beam should point to the boundary of the property - which leads to 50% of the light spilling over as annoyance light. As they are cheap to run - many seem to be on for longer than the Halogen PIR ones where I think preople were a bit cautious about running times. the two I got were very cheap o run they stopped working after about a day ....i Did they get shot? |
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DerbyBorn wrote:
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in : "DerbyBorn" wrote in message .236... The new LED External Floodlights are attracting new people to having external lighting. Unfortunately they seem to get fitted by people who think that the centre of the beam should point to the boundary of the property - which leads to 50% of the light spilling over as annoyance light. As they are cheap to run - many seem to be on for longer than the Halogen PIR ones where I think preople were a bit cautious about running times. the two I got were very cheap o run they stopped working after about a day ....i Did they get shot? No, they were given light duties. |
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On 14/12/2016 15:24, DerbyBorn wrote:
The new LED External Floodlights are attracting new people to having external lighting. Unfortunately they seem to get fitted by people who think that the centre of the beam should point to the boundary of the property - which leads to 50% of the light spilling over as annoyance light. As they are cheap to run - many seem to be on for longer than the Halogen PIR ones where I think preople were a bit cautious about running times. You never see moths flying around LED lights like you used to see with good old fashioned tungsten lamps. -- Adam |
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On Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:08:24 UTC, ARW wrote:
On 14/12/2016 15:24, DerbyBorn wrote: The new LED External Floodlights are attracting new people to having external lighting. Unfortunately they seem to get fitted by people who think that the centre of the beam should point to the boundary of the property - which leads to 50% of the light spilling over as annoyance light. As they are cheap to run - many seem to be on for longer than the Halogen PIR ones where I think preople were a bit cautious about running times. You never see moths flying around LED lights like you used to see with good old fashioned tungsten lamps. I've noticed that and the old sodium street lights. I've wonder whether the moths and gnats are attracted to IR/heat rathe rthan light. Maybe I should try with an IR remote see if I can attract moths, hopefully I won't get charged with grooming. Ah so theres' my 2 packs of Haribo sweets :-) |
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Yes one thing I've noticed since winter nights drew in that in my capacity
of the local blindy, and since so many idiots, I mean residents have drives across footways with no delineator at their boundaries and a light designed to show their vehicle based on a pir, that as I wander down the road and veer into their garden space due to the lack of a little step to guide me, all the lights down the road come on one after the other and in some cases windows get tapped in some vague anticipation that this will actually do anything to aid my guidance at all. Grin. Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please! "DerbyBorn" wrote in message .236... The new LED External Floodlights are attracting new people to having external lighting. Unfortunately they seem to get fitted by people who think that the centre of the beam should point to the boundary of the property - which leads to 50% of the light spilling over as annoyance light. As they are cheap to run - many seem to be on for longer than the Halogen PIR ones where I think preople were a bit cautious about running times. |
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