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January 23, 2012 - 1:27am
Whew! That was a bit embarrassing, good thing no one was around to see th- oh wait.
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Just the other day I did my combination for my locker 8 times before I realized my locker was 10 lockers down. *headdesk*
I thought our laundry light in our new house was sensor activated, turns out it's faulty wiring and totally coincidental that it comes on when I walk in the room.
Confirmation bias! Niiice....
On the top floor of our house we have a shower room with a sink in it. But in order to get hot water into it it has to be pumped up from the floor below, because the hot water is gravity-fed. But how do you start the pump? Couldn't find an affordable source of those taps (aka faucets if you don't speak the Queen's English) with a sensor at the back when we installed this, so instead developed a small electronic system which is activated by a push-switch over the sink.
And this fools just about everybody. Push a button to get hot water out of the sink? At one stage the switch had a label saying 'Push For Hot Water', but that just made things worse - they didn't open the tap first, and of course the pump times out after a few seconds if there's no flow. Somewhat perversely, the whole arrangement works better *without* the label - users attempt to open the tap first, then in desperation hit the button - and it works! Go figure...
Could be worse, what if the switch was on the outside of the door?
Er, the main isolator for the power shower is!
these sensor lights are pretty cool...unless they are linked up to fluorescent tubes which take 30 seconds to start up
The most annoying thing about motion detectors and lights is when the lights go out while you're in the bathroom.
absolutely. Wanna know something else annoying about motion sensors? While they normally won't pick up small things, like houseflies for example, they will pick up said small things if they land on the effing sensor.
Like when I was on Active Duty for the Army at Ft. Drum, New York. I was the armorer, which basically means my work day consisted of maintaining all the weapons and other equipment (personally responsible for about 2.4 million dollars in assorted gear).... Well there's a motion sensor in the arms room. This motion sensor is calibrated to ignore little things like house flies. I got woke up in the middle of the night by the officer in charge of the arms room and the MPs knocking on my barracks room door. The sensor had gone off and I needed to open up the door. So I do. And there's nothing there. Just like I knew there wouldn't be. Then the gorram fly has the nerve to buzz me. You better bet I hunted down that little fracker with a vengeance.
Yeah, some of our bathrooms have light sensors, some of them don't, it's really confusing! Although we're so strongly trained to turn out lights that even without the sensors we often end up in the dark :| (and it's REALLY dark in there)