[ale] OT: Light Management

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 11:35:59 EDT 2012


Looks like just the thing!


Pete Hardie
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Robert L. Harris
<robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Something like this:
>
> http://www.555-timer-circuits.com/led-dimmer.html
>
> ?  If I'm reading it right I could find what brightness to put the LED at
> and put it near the sensor.
>
> Robert
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Get a 555, and a few LEDs, and search for a simple circuit.  The 555
>> will let you run the LEDs at partial power, so longer battery life.
>>
>>
>> Pete Hardie
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Robert L. Harris
>> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > So, I'm now in a new office building.  The internal florescent lights
>> > are
>> > pretty bloody bright.  It seems though that there is a sensor in them
>> > that
>> > if the sun is out and bright, they dim.  I'm thinking I need some small
>> > devices I can make from RadioShack I can throw up in them to force them
>> > to
>> > Dim.  The closest thing I can find online is the anoyatron which isn't
>> > quite
>> > what I have in mind, I want these to just dim the lights around me.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts or anyone who can tell me how to put together something
>> > that'll
>> > run off a 9v battery for quite some time?
>> >
>> > Robert
>> >
>> >
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