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["William R Wood" <w.wood@xxxxxxx>]

Motion sensors are not necessarily much help because many users set the 
sensitivity and duration controls way too high.  My idiot neighbors have 
bright unshielded porch lights and shielded flood lights on motion sensors 
but the sensitivity is set so high that birds flying by trigger the lights 
(slight exaggeration but not much) and the duration setting is also maxed 
out so that the lights stay on at least 30 min every time they are 
triggered.  But since the sensitivity is set so high, the lights are always 
re-triggered (joggers, walkers, cars driving by, etc) before they shut off, 
so the lights are on continusly all night, every night, with rare exception. 
If the lights are off by some chance, I set them off myself if I put out the 
trash at the end of my driveway or pick up the newspaper early in the 
morning.

Also full cutoff light fixtures are virtually impossible to find and not 
that much help.  The light bulbs used by most security lights are so bright 
that the glare and reflected light from the beam hitting the house and 
ground are as bright as normal light fixtures.  Our nightime view is 
completely destroyed by the neighbors shielded flood lights and it is 
impossible to use my telescope or camera in the front yard due solely to the 
bright reflected light.

Light tresspass is like second hand smoke was 20 years ago.  Smokers were 
assumed to have the absolute right to smoke just as light users are now 
assumed to have the right to blast light at their neighbors.  Non smokers 
made a lot of noise and things changed.

Regards

Bill Wood


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Jones" <Telescoper@xxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 8:01 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Light Trespass Story in Republic


I didn't see one mention of motion sensors. That should be the Judge's 
ruling.
A few of those and a full-cutoff light fixture would save a ton of legal
fees...

Jack


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