{"id":52,"date":"2026-03-25T06:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/?p=52"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:46:03","slug":"keep-the-lights-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/keep-the-lights-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the lights on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am still fascinated with electricity and all the things it can do.&nbsp; (Yes, I can still stare at a running 60KW generator in total awe for quite a while.)&nbsp; Having a home with toddlers in it pressured me into building redundant lighting in my homestead back in the 80&#8217;s.&nbsp; (The kids were not nearly as stressed if the lights managed to stay on during a storm.)&nbsp; I came up with two solutions.&nbsp; First I installed 12V &#8220;Grain of wheat&#8221; lamps in the ceilings of all the rooms and installed 12V powered wall lights over the fireplace. (Hey they were popular in the 80&#8217;s)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-1024x608.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-1536x911.png 1536w, https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-2048x1215.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(It became unnecessary to have a flashlight since every room in the house was always Illuminated.) &nbsp; The charger and deep cycle batteries were in the garage with a heavy gauge wire run to a closet DC distribution box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When &#8220;Puck&#8221; LED lights became popular in the 90&#8217;s I changed out the incandescent grain of wheat lamps out with LED ones.&nbsp; They are quite flat and about 3&#8243; in diameter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/notenoughwire.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ceiling-Light-DIODER.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1906\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They produced considerably more light and consumed much less power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/notenoughwire.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ceiling-Light-IR-1024x890.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1907\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third generation LED lights I installed had a motion sensor in them.&nbsp; Normally the motion sensor would illuminate the unit for a minute or two.&nbsp; I soldered a resistor across the switch so that the LED always glowed and would brighten considerably when the motion sensor was activated.&nbsp; I installed these modified units in the dark areas of the house.&nbsp; (Bathrooms with no windows and closets)&nbsp; Further I powered them with a separate 4.5VDC power supply+Battery replenished with a solar panel permanently installed on the roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still fascinated with electricity and all the things it can do.&nbsp; (Yes, I can still stare at a running 60KW generator in total awe for quite a while.)&nbsp; Having a home with toddlers in it pressured me into building redundant lighting in my homestead back in the 80&#8217;s.&nbsp; (The kids were not nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitsofknowlege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavogt.online\/newwebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}