Outside Floodlights

[DerbyBorn]

Now that LED Exterior Floodlights are replacing the old Halogen ones it is interesting to see that idiot installers are fitting them to shine into the houses opposite! New builds seem to get them within a few days of moving in.

Don't they realise that 50% of the light will be wasted? There will be a dark area under the light, neighbours will be annoyed, visitors dazzled?

I thing the design could be improved to make it more logical to point them downwards.

I just fitted one from Screwfix and it is angled such tha the "cut-off" of the beam is just below the top of my end fence.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Is that not common sense, which seems to be severally lacking in many today?

We have suffered 20 years, with one idiot a quarter mile away. Their light, on a PIR, shines out horizontally to illuminate their tiny back garden. We get it shining directly into our kitchen. The only relief, when the lamp blows.

[Huge]

You're welcome to borrow my air rifle.

[The Natural Philosopher]

. =22 air rifle?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Huge has brought this to us :

Thanks, but far too far away for an air rifle.

[PeterC]

'Lanterns', lamp holder at top, R63, ~9W, 6,500K, ~670lm 120deg. lamp, height about 3m. Illuminates everything I need it to. Actually visible from 30m away and at same level but not a all dazzling. Dead easy to use a partial shroud if I need to limit its throw.

If I needed a more conventional floodlight it would soon have some additional shades on it - also high enough to have it shinibng downwards.

[Davidm]

And the floodlight with the pir attached below the light can't be tilted down far enough, unless you cobble together some sort of spacer to mount the thing away from the wall. Who designs this stuff!! I bought one a year ago and couldn't use it - have now removed the pir, mounted the light on a wooden base and just use it as a worklight indoors.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Davidm submitted this idea :

Would they work mounted upside down, PIR uppermost?

[Huge]

You could, like, walk, you know? :o)

[ARW]

Wankers?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I bought a pair from Lidl some time ago. Included PIRs. And as such could be swivelled down by much if mounted on an ordinary wall. Luckily I didn't need the PIRs. Removing them allowed them to be set so they lighted what was underneath them. Which is what you'd expect they were made for. Other than that, they've been fine. Were very good value for the power then - about half TLC price.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Actually, no I could not - It would involve scaling a very new and sharp railway fence, crossing a wide swath of railway property, an high speed line in an embankment, followed by a second rail fence finally a

6 foot garden fence.

[Jeff Layman]

No doubt they would /work/, but would they be as weatherproof that way up? Also, where is the light sensor photocell situated? That might get confused if it was upside down.

[dennis]

There isn't much point in a flood light with the PIR attached. You want the PIR near head height and the lamp near the eaves of a house.

[Tim Watts]

after you pinged it with a pebble from you catapult?

[charles]

The ones I have fitted have the PIR on separate arm and separately adjustable.

[LSR]

Same here. Tempting to get some highly reflective sheet material and shape it to focus the reflection at their bedroom windows.

[Nick Odell]

The lamp blows? Have you been inviting your Canadian friends around again?

Nick

[damduck-egg]

Same problem I have with a light aircraft that is always doing training circuits over here, Rev like blazes then drift down , rev like blazes then rift down for hours.

Anyone got an ack ack gun in a shed, ebay don't do firearms.

Perhaps a really powerful drone towing a banner with Fuck Off on it up alongside would be a less lethal option.

G.Harman

[Davidm]

I'd thought of doing something like that, but can the light from the floodlight interfere with the PIR?