[ale] OT: Light Management

[robert.l.harris at gmail.com (Robert L. Harris)]

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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