[ale] OT: Light Management

[Pete Hardie]

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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