powbongo
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Check thiis out at Lidl on sale at the moment bought one last night for a dark storage area on the boat, just the thing!http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/www_lidl_uk/hs.xsl/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=565
Led light with batteries and motion detector on sale Lidl
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8cm range?Worse than useless.
prv
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I don't think it's meant to be used like a motion-detecting garden light or whatever. It's to detect when the cupboard door is opened, a no-installation-required alternative for those too inept to fit an old-fashioned cupboard door switch. For that, you want short range so that it doesn't flash on and off as you move around near it.
Pete
[70521]
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Not sure a motion detector is a good design feature on a moving boat.
Rivers & creeks
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Perfect for the galley cupboards - thanks for the heads up.
Conachair
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Cheers for that, hope they have some locally. Sounds so much easier than maplins micro switches and led strip, which is the route I've been slowly going with lockers so far.
TSB240
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+1 Reckon ideal for the heads also .....
Motion detector Ummmm need to think about that....
prv
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At 8cm's range you'd have to actually get in the cupboard with it
No, you stay out of range of the motion detector, that's the point of the 8cm. You mount it within 8cm of the cupboard door, so that it detects it being opened.
Pete
OceanSprint
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Most motion detectors use infrared - will this really detect a door moving ?
Bilgediver
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+1 Reckon ideal for the heads also .....
Motion detector Ummmm need to think about that....
Maybe has anti skid surface????
fergie_mac66
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Ripster
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For a fiver, its worth a try - thanks for info
VicS
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Looks like a good idea
May be possible to mount it so that it does not come on when the door is opened but does as soon as you reach into the cupboard.
For an outdoor or outbuilding solar powered LED flood light this one from Maplin might be of interest
http://www.maplin.co.uk/led-solar-floodlight-with-pir-385017 ..... Pretty sure I have seen similar at either Lidl or Aldi
May be possible to mount it so that it does not come on when the door is opened but does as soon as you reach into the cupboard.
For an outdoor or outbuilding solar powered LED flood light this one from Maplin might be of interest
Conachair
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Exactly what happens. Just bought a couple and fitted, comes with plastic clips & double sided. And batts. Mounted vertically inside the locker next to the door the light comes on when stick your hand in, sensor not great but it works and well worth 6 squid.
I should have got some more Mr Muscle while I was there, with some light on the subject the inside of those galley lockers could benefit from a bit of a wipe down....
Not Maplins again .......
VicS
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'fraid so.. They have my email address so I get all the bumph on special offers sent by e mail ... (Likewise Aldi and Lidl)