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Security: A Novel Idea
I just
finished reading a book I picked up a couple weeks ago at the bookstore. It’s by my favorite author and she did not
let me down. It’s a romance novel, so it’s
rather formulaic, but the story itself is what I liked. Three guys and their mom have decided to
rehab an old inn/hotel. I’m not going to
run through the whole plot, but towards the end another guy the woman at the
center of the story has been trying to politely say “no, I don’t want to date
you” starts taking things a little too far.
The main male character takes it upon himself to deck out her home with
some of the latest security products on the market. Including flood/security lights.
The only
problem I can see with these lights is they aren’t that effective unless you’re
1) home and 2) awake. Otherwise, you
wouldn’t see them pop on, and unless you live in the small town this story
takes place in, your neighbors won’t be monitoring your house for that creep
who’s been harassing you. Which is why
the guy was able to break into her house on Halloween and wait until she got
home.
Having done
this blog for a while now, I also wondered if the bulbs were LED. Philips has some pretty good LED flood lights
that bathe the area being monitored. The
AmbientLED ™ 90W Replacement Outdoor and Security PAR38 LED bulb is 80% more efficient,
using just 18W of power, when it’s tracking every move around the area where it
is set up.
Although
security lights are meant to pop on and off in response to movement, this product
available in “warm white” goes on without flicker. Of course, like all LED products, the bulbs
have a 25,000 hour life span, at least.
Which is? Yup: 25 times longer
than an incandescent bulb and 2.5 times longer than a fluorescent bulb. It’s circular shape fits most existing
security systems and the curved lens helps the bulb stick out a little further
and cast its light that much further.
http://www.agreensupply.com/philips-ambientled-tm-90w-replacement-outdoor-and-security-par38-led-light-bulb-warm-white/
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