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. Dan -- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors. On Oct 1, 2012, at 6:55 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
When I was a kid, I used a wrist-rocket. Definitely don't do that!
When I moved into my current house, there was one obnoxious street light a few yards over, that shone directly on my backyard observing spot. A few years later they re-did the streetlights and that one went away.
They didn't use full-cutoff fixtures for the replacements, but shorter poles and it was shifted several yards, which placed it behind a home. No more direct glare, for the past 18 years or so.
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 7:46 PM, <gazebo4sale@comcast.net> wrote:
Don't pass this on! I just installed and successfully tested a toggle switch on a street light that is obnoxious, illuminates everywhere but down and illuminates my observation area with a sick Halloween orange light. Score one for higher S/N ratio. It took $3.00 and under 4 minutes of time.
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