<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">What annoys me is young punks who like to vandalise other people's property for no reason. I had these solor lamps braketed to my fence and today I found that young punks outside last night broke them off and smashed them up. That annoys me more than anything it isn't has if little tiny solar lights are so bright that they are going to get a headache.</font>

[ 06-15-2004, 01:43 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

Solution: Shotgun w/ Rocksalt

Replace them, and wait in the shadows for them.

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">I was actually trying to think of something were if they touched the lights they would be stuck on until emergency services come to remove them. I can't think of anything that doesn't dry however.</font>

[ 06-15-2004, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

[img]smile.gif[/img] Yeah, I installed some lawn lights (plastic) and every year they get all brittle from the sun, and crumble. I saw some of those cool Solar lawn lights made of metal that look nice, but cost a lot.. Needs no wires! But at $12 a PIECE, thats too much, but it would last forever.

That sucks I hate that when stuff happens. I hope the lights did not cost to much to replace. Thats if you are going to replace them.

Had a similar thing happen with Xmas lights some time ago. We just stopped putting up the lights. I also had an expensive sculpture stolen from my house. Thought about a 220 line (hot side to object) and a wire mesh on the ground. Fry the SOBs. *sigh* can't really do that.

I was wondering how hard it would be to attach a capacitor to the frame of each lamp, but I'm not sure how much juice a solar panel could generate with one. The trick is to not ground the frame of the light, but to make sure the chickenwire on the grass IS grounded.

I know what you mean! We had some reflectors on the corner of our lot to keep people from driving over the lawn and kids would pull them up and smash them all the time. I actually saw one dragging my reflector on the way to school. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

We ended up putting in fence posts (pressure treated 4x4 posts dug four feet into the clay soil!) and attaching reflector disks to them.

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">The fence is like a fortress at the back near the driveway so I could put them up much higher (11') on that side. But they were at a height of about 6' because they just give off barley enough light to see and any higher will take away there usefulness.</font>

[ 06-15-2004, 04:36 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

ive never had this problem rly im just posting to change my avatar [img]smile.gif[/img]