[Shop-talk] Solar driveway runway lights?

RandE rande90 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 10:04:17 MDT 2020


Maybe reflective tape or paint.  Make a stripe down the edge of the drive.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:46 AM Jim Franklin <jamesf at groupwbench.org>
wrote:

> To be visible as one is walking up the driveway, they'd need a light
> source behind me. The ones I've seen in the street have reflectors front
> and back, to reflect headlights. I could probably come up with an elaborate
> multi-reflector contraption for using the garage lights to illuminate the
> backside of the unit, but at that point it's not worth it. I need about 20
> units.
>
> jim
>
> On Sep 17, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Darrell Walker <darrellw360 at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
> What about the reflector dots they use on the street?
>
> On Sep 17, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Jim Franklin <jamesf at groupwbench.org> wrote:
>
> I did the lollipop snowplow reflectors and they kept twisting in the wind
> so I'd need to go correct them every once in a while, plus they looked
> hokey. But, they worked. A reflector post, like on roadsides, on a 4x4, now
> you have me thinking. One issue that comes to mind is, people walking up
> the driveway could trip on them, especially when the garage carriage lights
> are relatively bright compared to everything else in their field of view
> and would blind them to ground based obstacles.
>
> Maybe I need some kind of top reflector as well. Hmm.
>
>
>
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