Food TV shows that you may not be watching but should be
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I bought a pretty powerful one to try and turn off our street light. Alas, I couldn't get it to work.
How powerful is pretty powerful?
This might be of some interest...or not.
AFFECTS OF LASERS
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If you or someone you know has a green laser gun sight try that. They're still in the consumer grade power range but the beam is much better focused.
Typical office presentation type laser pointer won't damage it. Can "blind" it only so long as you can hold it on the right spot.
They all operate at a specific/narrow frequency. Filter that out in post-production and you get the image back (of the person pointing the laser).
So need something that can actually damage, not just temporarily blind.
Street light sensor isn't a camera but you still need to inflict real damage so you don't have to hold the laser on it all night.
Best suggestion yet, since they haven't a clue where the sensor is, apparently.
Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski
Clam whisperer
Ours are on top with a clear plastic cap. When you light up the cap, it thinks its daylight. I'd guess yours are the same.I have - never straight at the sun, angled to North is best, West and east ok, depending. NExt up - photocells, how do they work?
I rarely do talk to text sonny!
Petunia
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Inside the Mind of Aaron Hernandez (approximation of the title)
Only three episodes. Wow, was that guy messed up. I almost wonder what direction his life would’ve taken if he hadn’t been hit on the head repeatedly or on the other hand, if he wasn’t a millionaire.
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Only three episodes. Wow, was that guy messed up. I almost wonder what direction his life would’ve taken if he hadn’t been hit on the head repeatedly or on the other hand, if he wasn’t a millionaire.
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They're on top but not pointed straight up. The cap is a cap, it isn't funneling the sunlight into the photocell - that would increase the amount of time it is Off. An most photocells are very fragile on their own since the are almost the same construction as a glass solar cell. They are angled to maximize what part of the day they are triggered by. Most have a delay so a bird (or a cloud) sitting on it doesn't trigger them instantly. You might have just needed to persist longer. But more likely you were not at a proper elevation to actually trigger it. *Have installed a few on commercial buildings in my day.
I assume you've shot a laser at clear plastic right? The whole thing lights up. That's how these lasers work to shut off the light. Check YouTube.
ermagod - just because that is what retards do on Youtube doesn't mean it applies to you or even means anything. If it's lighting up "the whole thing" than the strength of the light is being diffused in thousands of directions. And when you see light that means it is moving toward you. Because everything we see is reflected light or directed light. Our eyes don't go out and "see" things. So a big portion of the light is moving AWAY from the sensor. At that point.