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The street lights are on

  • 14-05-2012 9:32pm
    #1
    ShoulderChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭


    Why?

    [ok more to the point why now? do they have a set time? does this change if so how often, are they clever enough to time them for x mins before sunset based on a live climate feed? if so do they adjust for very cloudy nights or do they have a set of times like dec/jan/feb turn them on at 6 and then go up an hour for the next three months, or is it a little man somewhere in a cage like the movie Hugo who decides?]


Comments

  • #2
    Pacing Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    Sensors activate the light when it gets dark. No great mystery here.


  • #3
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    You think too much...


  • #4
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    sometimes a sensor, sometimes a homunculus.

    Cushy number.


  • #5
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    I hate when the street lights are pink, almost time to come inside.


  • #6
    harvester of sorrow
    Registered Users Posts: 832 ✭✭✭harvester of sorrow


    Photocell........simples.


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  • #7
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,232 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    My dad said that sometimes bird **** can block the sensors on lights resulting in them being activated during the day. I have no idea if that is true but I've always wondered.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #8
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    The ESB took all street light privileges away round these parts :(

    The orange glow is now a distant memory.


  • #9
    ShoulderChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    Pageant Messiah wrote: »
    Sensors activate the light when it gets dark. No great mystery here.

    ah that is fab!

    I will sleep sound tonight.


  • #10
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    I don't think they have sensors I think they are timed


  • #11
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    opinion guy wrote: »
    I don't think they have sensors I think they are timed

    He'll have to put a hood over one as an experiment to see.


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  • #12
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,883 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    They have sensors that's why they don't all come on at the exact same time.


  • #13
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    You must have paid your €100 property tax. The lights where I am are not on (we haven't paid yet) :p


  • #14
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    I think we should change them all to blue.


  • #15
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    The local bishop turns these on. He knows quite a bit about street lights, has a wee setup in his house with ould PLC's and on his computer he can see a map of where all the street lights are, which ones are faulty and everything.

    If he has to he can set a timer but bishops are discouraged from doing this. There is a switch under the stairs usually in his house that turns on the street lights for the area he serves. When he gets up he switches it off again. There are also switches for individual towns but those aren't used much.

    So it is most of the time on the Bishop's whim when the lights go on.


  • #16
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,140 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    The ESB took all street light privileges away round these parts :(

    The orange glow is now a distant memory.

    Did one of your neighbours have his house wired up to one of them?


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