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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 16 9:19 am Post subject: Solar light advice please?

Advice please!

I need to light a 7 x 5 shed for an hour or two after sunset each day. I don't need a set amount of light - I just need it to stay lighter in the hen house for a bit longer than it is outside, so the flipping guinea fowl will go in to the DARK SCARY TERRIFYING house they have been sleeping in every night for the last four months.

If necessary I can nag Arvo to run fifty yards of armored cable from the mains and put in a light on a timer. However, it would be better for our marriage if there was a little solar set up that would do the job.

I don't need a time switch or anything ... literally a little sensor that goes 'oh, it's getting dark, I'll come on' and then trickles off as the battery dies would do it. I've googled 'hen house solar lighting' and it looks like a posh system is two or three hundred quid, which is a load more than I wanted to spend, given they are not my guinea fowl and I am doing this for my mother.

Any suggestions?

chickenlady

Joined: 18 Aug 2013
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Location: Dorset

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 16 10:54 am Post subject:
Have you had a look at Amazon uk? They have cheap and cheerful lights for interior fitting for around �8. I should think that would be ok for your purposes i.e. a light that doesn't blind and goes out after an hour or two. Not much good for illuminating a large shed, or anything like that, but fine for the guinea fowl coop at bedtime.

dpack

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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 16 12:04 pm Post subject:
with remote control fitting a separate timer in the feed to the lamp should be fairly easy most of the timer ones seem to be 6 hrs on but would 6 hrs of fairy lights be a problem? a bit of searching might find one with an adjustable timer the chook shed ones are for fooling them into thinking it is spring ie lots of big leds and most are rather costly but they do have adjustable timers

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 16 4:43 pm Post subject:
Would those cheap fairly lights do if you got two or three sets? They do exactly that - come on at dusk and go out when they run out of juice. They are sooo cheap it's probably worth a try!

wellington womble

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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 16 4:47 pm Post subject:
Oh, something like this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01D4P77A8/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2B2YGOUDQSV9O

chez

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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 16 4:53 pm Post subject:
Thanks everyone, I will have a rootle round Wilkinson's tomorrow

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 16 5:46 pm Post subject:
https://www.selections.com/garden-shed-light-solar-by-gardman.html?gclid=COe67N7s2s8CFRdmGwodpQ0G5A

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 16 8:46 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Would those cheap fairly lights do if you got two or three sets? They do exactly that - come on at dusk and go out when they run out of juice. They are sooo cheap it's probably worth a try!

There are probably threads about this on mumsnet if you google 'glamping chickens' or something similar.

chez

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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 16 8:32 am Post subject:
Mumsnet terrifies me. They're the Illuminati.

Nick

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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 16 2:05 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

Mumsnet terrifies me. They're the Illuminati.

Chardonnay drenched, Nigel Slater worshipping, Waitrose shopping Kath Kidson wearing sanctimonious bitches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgKrdW38cg0&feature=youtu.be

dpack

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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 16 7:17 pm Post subject:
i shop from waitrose sometimes ( co-owned by the partners etc and price matched with tescos ) but not the other stuff ,i dont think i'm qualified for membership of mumsnet on most grounds.

sean
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 16 4:51 pm Post subject:
I only posted it to see if mentioning them still summoned Nick.

Nick

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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 16 5:24 pm Post subject:
Froth froth froth.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 16 5:30 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Froth froth froth.

Making one of your posh dinners again? Or am I getting confused with foam?

Nick

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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 16 5:34 pm Post subject:

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