Fortunately no street lights where I grew up (in a suburb of San Diego), but many a neighbor probably needlessly replaced a porch light that had been partially unscrewed from time to time... :) /R ________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Light Pollution Terrorism in Sandy The only laser I had when I was a kid was an Edmund HeNe borrowed from school. And no photocells on streetlights in those days. But the wrist rocket was fun anyway. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
When I was living in Denver, I had a streetlight directly across from my house.
I discovered it had a large photocell on top of it to turn it on an off. A laser pointer duct tape to a camera tripod happened to be able to turn it off. Even had cops come through the neighborhood, and never suspect a thing (The laser pointer was hidden in the hedges). I always wondered if anyone called in a repair, there wasn't anything wrong with it, so the tech would be very confused.
A set of rechargeable AAs would get me through the night. No muss, no fuss.
I imagine they are the same design here, but I don't have one in the way of my house.
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