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SpookyDan
   
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|  | | | I was wondering about motion lights... The security flood lights that come on at night if you walk near them...
I know that during the day these lights turn themself off while the sun is shinning. With that in mind...
Anyone ever tried shinning a high powered infra-red (IR) flashlight on one of these lights at night to see if it de-activates it? I figured since its not visible to us humans but is to most electronics it might work... And might be useful info for someone trying to get past some of these lights.
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| | | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 1 on 12/12/2005 9:35 PM >
|  | | | I will try this out with my new photon IR light tonight with my home motion sensing lights.
Interesting concept though.
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| | | | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 2 on 12/12/2005 11:42 PM >
| | | | Hmmm, it may work on them if they turn off because of the light...but I think they a lot of them are just set to turn on and off at certain times. Really good idea though. Tell me how it works out.
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SpookyDan
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| | | | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 3 on 12/12/2005 11:51 PM >
| | | | Posted by Logan
Hmmm, it may work on them if they turn off because of the light...but I think they a lot of them are just set to turn on and off at certain times. Really good idea though. Tell me how it works out.
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Yea... This post isnt about lights on timers. Its about "motion lights" as the title clearly reads
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| | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 4 on 12/13/2005 3:16 AM >
| | | | Posted by SpookyDan
Yea... This post isnt about lights on timers. Its about "motion lights" as the title clearly reads
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Dan - some motion lights are on timers. The timer tells the light when to switch on its motion sensor, so as to avoid lighting up during daylight hours.
Those that don't use this method are typically going to be housing a photovoltaic cell to meter daylight; they will turn on when ambient lighting is low enough. In this case, you would need an extremely powerful infrared flashlight to generate enough currant to override the motion sensor. A little one, like those on most IR monoculars and the like, wouldn't do it.
Hope this helps.
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SpookyDan
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| | | | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 5 on 12/13/2005 3:40 AM >
| | | | Posted by Leviathan
Dan - some motion lights are on timers. The timer tells the light when to switch on its motion sensor, so as to avoid lighting up during daylight hours.
Those that don't use this method are typically going to be housing a photovoltaic cell to meter daylight; they will turn on when ambient lighting is low enough. In this case, you would need an extremely powerful infrared flashlight to generate enough currant to override the motion sensor. A little one, like those on most IR monoculars and the like, wouldn't do it.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the info... Im not actually looking to defeat one of these lights. I can do it by crawling slowly ;) Just thought the idea might be useful to someone else
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| | | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 6 on 12/13/2005 5:31 AM >
| | | | I've pointed lazers to the motion detector/ turn on lights and they light up.
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SpookyDan
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| | | | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 7 on 12/13/2005 12:37 PM >
| | | | Posted by Monkey Boy
I've pointed lazers to the motion detector/ turn on lights and they light up.
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IR light and "laser" are very different....
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| | | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 8 on 12/13/2005 7:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by SpookyDan
IR light and "laser" are very different....
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Besides the point, it lights them up. I've done this with those that you put outside your house to see if someone is aproaching, those are easy to set off with lazers from very far
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Pleiades
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| | Re: Motion Sensor Lights
<Reply # 9 on 12/13/2005 10:14 PM >
| | | | Sometimes we go out on the boat and get up close to navigational beacons and shine a 2 million candle power spotlight on them it defiantly gets the light to turn off. The same light also triggers passive infrared motion sensors quite easily.
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<Reply # 10 on 12/14/2005 3:21 AM >
| | | | Just walk really slow and they won't go on. Thats the method I use at school when I want to sit in studio in the dark (I have to walk all the way across the room to my table), and the method I use when I don't want to get blinded by the ones on my house when I stumble home drunk.
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