Surrey County Council Streetlighting

[Slyspark]

Right, so having just replaced Surrey's entire stock of streetlights (finished 2 yrs ago) The council now want to turn them off to save money. Given that replacements such as new 55w PL-L to replace 35w SOX and 140w Cosmo / 100w SON to replace 90w SOX were he norm, they now wonder why it's costing them more to run. F***ing idiots!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-36814322

[Danny]

I'd just go around with my column key and turn them all back on fucking goons

[Slyspark]

Not going to be that easy sadly. the system they installed is run on the 'Harvard Leafnuts' system. I guess that to turn them off at 11 and back on at 5, they'll just send a remote signal, so nothing I can do short of hacking it and I wouldn't have a clue how to do that anyway

[Danny]

Are they nema nodes or not

[Slyspark]

No, the node they use is internal to the lantern with a small antenna sticking through a 20mm hole in the top. I think you can buy something called a 'node sniffer' which the engineers use to locally turn one on after repair. That could be fun, go round switching them on when I wanted, but I bet it's a shit load of money!

[AngryHorse]

You can`t win anyway, they would just put it on your council tax!

[HIDLamp]

Move to Cumbria. The street lights come on at dusk, go off at dawn and do nothing else between.

[Slyspark]

And I'm guessing that it's also a bit quieter and a whe lot prettier there as well! My little town is fast turning into a suburb of London

[HIDLamp]

Just stay clear of Cleator Moor and you can't really go wrong.

[Slyspark]

Cleator Moor? Whats wrong with there then? Hmmm, thinking it's time to move, can't even have bedroom windows open at night as my road is now like a motorway. When I was little, you could play in the street, now it's hard to even cross it!