Decent Motion Sensing Lights? 82
Above asks: "At my previous house I purchased a number of motion sensor lights to replace the standard flood lights. I simply went to the nearest Home Depot and bought a mid range model, and they worked great. Since then I've moved, and in the new house I did the same, and got some Heath-Zenith units from Home Depot. They were junk (came on all the time for no reason). I adjusted two different units to no end, they simply didn't work. Since that was basically all Home Depot carried, I went to Lowes, and got a Regent Lighting unit. It was better, but not by much. I want my back yard to be relatively sensitive, triggered by the dogs when we let them out, but the front yard to be insensitive, triggered only by a car or the close approach of a person. Where can I get a good quality, motion sensor flood light? What are the secrets to aiming and adjusting them so they work right?"
Re:Simple. (Score:3, Insightful)
It looks like they have useful stuff, but their web site is really annoying.
X10 (as a company) Sucks (Score:5, Insightful)
I won't support them. And I urge others to do the same.
Not interested in the discussion? Don't comment. (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe you could live without them (Score:5, Insightful)
One of my neighbors has a burglar alarm which he only sets when he goes on vacation. It has internal motion sensors that are triggered if a passing wind rattles one of his windows. This means we are treated to a 120db external siren on almost a daily basis.
Blackouts are an inconvenience, but we used to make them fun by lighting a fire in the fireplace, cooking over a camp stove, and lighthing candles and lanterns and maybe reading stories to the kids. But a couple of years a go a vogue went around the neighborhood for buying gasoline powered emergency generators. Since noise from these things apparently isn't regulated, lamplight reading is out because the neighborhood sounds like a motor speedway.
I'm all for collecting geeky stuff, but it's one thing to have an attic electronics lab, it's another to deny a neighbor the right to be in his back yard in the dark. There's a growing and unhealthy obsession with extending and expanding our personal space, whether it's building houses as close to the property line as allowed, shining lights into neighbors' yards and windows, or driving an absurdly large SUV.
The Stoic philosophers reasoned this way about happiness: if happiness is having all your wnats satisfied, the surest way to happiness is to self-regulate your wants. Epictetus once told the story of placing an iron lamp on the outside of his house; he heard an odd noise outside his door he went out to find that a thief had stolen the lamp. "Tommorow, my friend," said Epictetus, "you will find a clay lamp; a man can only lose what he has."
MOD PARENT UP (Score:3, Insightful)
motion light (Score:3, Insightful)