BobL43
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LOL, what a nice way to design a "blinker"They probably had the dusk/dawn photo sensor pointing toward the lights.
That will hose any type of lighting system.
LOL, what a nice way to design a "blinker"They probably had the dusk/dawn photo sensor pointing toward the lights.
That will hose any type of lighting system.
Interesting to know that the new streetlight bulbs in our area, ALL failed! Every single one! Yeah, they actually took out the old ones, though they functioned perfectly and were much brighter.
So they gave us a 1-800 number to call to have them replaced. They were supposed to be 'better', but they turn off and on all night long. And buzz and crackle, and make odd sounds.
And then they dont come on at all if they dont get replaced.
The company has replaced almost all of them in our area thanks to our calls. And they work, but the new ones are dim. But at least they dont cycle on and off all night long.
Another EPA goof. What did this cost? Who is responsible for this one?
But isnt that really old technology? It sure used to work just fine with the old lights many years ago. They always came on at dusk and shut off in the morning without fail.
The police I've talked with in several states complain about people's motion sensors being improperly set. They get spotlighted when they are doing a lights-out slow roll through neighborhoods, either looking for someone, or looking for something out of the ordinary.
LOL, what a nice way to design a "blinker"
capecod12;329452 Interesting to know that the new streetlight bulbs in our area said:Wow. This took me waaaaay back! In the late 60's I was a kid living on a USAF base in England, and I had a paper route that had me working before the sun came up. Dad was not the boss of the base, but he was also near the top of command (neither base commander nor wing commander, but just below in an admin level) and at a cocktail party that the folks put on I buttoned a Captain about the street lights on base going off before the sun came up. He got it changed. Dang. Had not thought about that for a few decades.......
I thought it was illegal to drive after dark with your lights off, Or are they above the law ?
The Lawmen should have been on foot.
No, they do this on residential streets as a sort of covert approach. They have some discretion as to these sorts of things. Obviously it is not something you do on a busy street, but at 2am you can I've seen them do this when pulling up after I made a call about some vandals down the street. They can roll about 10-15 mph and cover a whole neighborhood several times faster than someone on foot.
On foot they would still have to drive across town, then get out run around, and come back to the car. And if they do it on foot they will most likely need back up (and a lot of those cruising are single patrol.) So on foot would likely cut the number of calls they can cover to about 1/3 as many. But, hey, if a community had an infinite amount of money to spend on police protection...
I thought it was illegal to drive after dark with your lights off, Or are they above the law ?
The Lawmen should have been on foot.
I thought it was illegal to drive after dark with your lights off, Or are they above the law ?
The Lawmen should have been on foot.
One night I was on my way home from my girlfriends house at 3am and there is a very dark stretch of BLVD and I was going a bit fast. I think it was 65 in a 45 at 3am on a Monday morning. No one was out except for me and the cops. I had about a 5 mile drive from her house to my house.
So this is a 3 lane street with the center lane not really being used for anything at the present time.....one day it will probably be a turn lane as business develops. This cop was sitting with no lights on and I was bumping down the street toward him and as I said it was very very dark and then BOOM the a'hole cop turns on every light on the car and blinded me and I kinda swerved.....
So this cop starts with the 50 questions.....Where ya been,where ya goin,where does she live,what street..you been drinking,etc etc. I only answered that I was going home and had not been drinking. The questions he asked that I did not want to answer I simply stated...."I respectfully exercise my right not to answer". He wrote the ticket for speeding and sent me on my way.
45 days later I went to court and he didn't show up so it was thrown out.....I think he was called to duty in the middle east. Hope he's ok.........I would have won the case anyway because I found out that it was against the police dept policy to be blackedout in the middle of a road taking radar. Too risky....drunks have a tendency to run their A^^'s over.
I talked to a rep at Intermatic recently about photo controls. There is a difference between brands, as has been discussed here. Less expensive photocontrols are not true "off". They are electronic swicthes, which have some leakage, and that is what drives fluorescents and LED's crazy. Most of Intermatics models contain an actual physical off/on switch and are fully tested to support fluorescent lamps of all types.
This Program has a doubler glitch.
Heres a LED bulb for $8.99.... try one and report back
http://www.1000bulbs.com/?utm_sourc...rm=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=_Bing_PPC_Brand
Also, here is the ONLY timer left on the market at a good price thats NOT digital crap. Made in germany: http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/3380/ELEC-GM40.html
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