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Posted by Pierre Levesque on December 10, 2007, 3:33 pm
Actually I should have written that I'm looking at getting just the sensors
to be hard wired to existing lights.
I figure that 30-40 foot detection max would do the trick
IOW, here's an example:
Car or person comes up the driveway to the house. The view at the top of
the drive is a freestanding garage. When the car/person gets about 20-30 or
40 feet from the garage, the existing light above the garage door lights up
for 20 seconds to 5 minutes or more... whatever, I assume this is
adjustable...
The intent would be to connect the sensor somewhere between the switch and
fixture...
I ask because there also appears to be a ton of transmitters/receiver
systems out here that could detect at a gate or something but I think that
would be overkill for this particular application unless someone has
experience with why something like that (or something else) has value
> "Pierre Levesque"> wrote
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm about to spec some Outdoor Motion Sensor Lights for a residential
>> client. Any personal experience with hints as to which ones work best,
>> which offer the most features or how to maximize their use, etc?
>>
>> They are to be used mostly for convenience to light areas as people walk
>> by but f course, they will also provide secutiry.
>>
>> From what 've seen, there are dozens of cordless types but these are to
>> be hard-wired.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> PL
>
> I'll be watching the responses cause I'm sort of interested too.
> I've had some in the past, I think they were either Reliant of Malibu and
> I wasn't too thrilled with them.
> I've looked at some others too and it looks to me where the weak link in
> the chain is in the sensor calibration itself.
> We currently have some on our front walk, but I don't know the brand, and
> ever since the time changed they have been very finicky.
> I looked at some wireless setups awhile back but they are kinda pricey, at
> least 3 times as much money.
> What are you looking for, the individual double flood fixtures or the
> strings with one sensor?
> If you want them to come on when people walk by and then go off right
> after we may be talking about 2 different things.
> The place I did for the BoSox player had that in his mile long driveway
> and the cost was on the moon.
> The lights came on when the car was 50' in front of it and went off when
> it was 50' away and ants were always getting into the sensors and messing
> them up.
>
>
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