Two PIRs for security light?

kwikbreaks

davester wrote: »

no this is like a security lamp with the PIR just has a solar panel as a powersource. I think it would be significantly brighter than the garden lights that are useless. I gave you the link so you can see what it looks like, can ask maplins or maybe homebase will have something similar or brighter.

I followed the link and that is why I enquired about the white stick......

maplin wrote:

Supplied with 3 x AA rechargeable batteries

Considering this guy has a garden long enough to need an additional PIR I somehow think that product may not quite cut the mustard.

They have another for £49.99 and that has a 6v 3.2AH battery which they say will power the light for 9 hours so that one must draw about 350ma producing just over 2watts. A standard floodlight is 500w and a mini floodlight is 150w. Even allowing for greater efficiency from the LEDs they really are not going to come anywhere close to something useful over the 10m or so which that garden must be to need 2 PIRs

davester

it was an idea that got around that regulation.

kwikbreaks

To be of any use it would have to work though and that suggestion won't. Checkout the post above from somebody who has one or at least something similar.

I'm afraid that the truth is that Maplin sell carp products sometimes. They are usually overpriced carp too unless on promotion.

davester

well other places than maplins just their site is easy to look for this type of carp

Fifer

I'm surprised no-one has cashed in on the Part P regulations aftermath by bringing out a 12V or 24V PIR security lighting kit based around 12V 50W GU10 or GU5.3 lamps (maybe 2 or 3 in a single housing). I presume Part P doesn't forbid householders from running 12/24V cables outside from a transformer with a 13A plugtop?

kwikbreaks

Some stuff from Maplins is fine especially if it is on promotion. You can normally get most of their products cheaper elsewhere though - they sell a lot of the same carp that you can get from HK sellers on ebay at elevated prices.

kwikbreaks

Fifer wrote: »

I'm surprised no-one has cashed in on the Part P regulations aftermath by bringing out a 12V or 24V PIR security lighting kit based around 12V 50W GU10 or GU5.3 lamps (maybe 2 or 3 in a single housing). I presume Part P doesn't forbid householders from running 12/24V cables outside from a transformer with a 13A plugtop?

I seriously doubt that these regulations are either well known or rigorously enforced. Most folks will be happily putting up their own security lights for sure - have you ever seen any warning notice on them in DIY shops saying they can only be installed by qualified electricians?

Fifer

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I seriously doubt that these regulations are either well known or rigorously enforced. Most folks will be happily putting up their own security lights for sure - have you ever seen any warning notice on them in DIY shops saying they can only be installed by qualified electricians?

No, but I don't live in an area where Part P applies.

kwikbreaks

I've no idea if I do or not but should I feel the need to add an additional PIR or security light I shall make absolutely certain that I fail to check.

Leopard

Altarf wrote: »

Sorry to spoil your conspiracy theory, but the MP who prompted the change wasn't a labour MP.

I'm not the one who sees it as a conspiracy.

"Conspirators", in Britain, are now deemed to be anyone who would question the way the country is being run.


I'm sure that when your grandchildren grow up (in abject poverty from having to pay back - with interest and with increasingly worthless money - the vast national debt arising from the fe¢kless financial policy that bankrupted Britain) and ask you why you voted for, and re-elected, and re-elected a Government that abolished all their civil liberties since the Magna Carta, sent their parents to wage an illegal and horrendously expensive war abroad, stole your pension and destroyed the value of Britain's currency, you will be proud to tell them that none of that mattered because the most important thing at the time was to introduce Part P of "The Regulations".


(PS. Whose idea was it to censor the word "f e c k less", for heaven's sake? Most of the people on this site couldn't spell it correctly anyway.)