Night light tool station Product code: 94943
Night light tool station Product code: 94943
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Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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If you have kids these are ideal for a bedroom or hallway, just enough light to see by if someone has to get up in middle of night without putting on main lights. If I remember they are 3 watts

Good value at £3.98, we have three of them still as good as new 5 years later, recommended.

I am not a toolstation employee just a happy customer!

Mars

10,089 posts

243 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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I'm just looking for something along these lines. Are they on all the time or triggered by movement? I would prefer the former as it's properly dark where I live. Just a very low glow on the landing would suit.

PositronicRay

28,958 posts

212 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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I thought this would be a good thing, except at night it's mostly number 1s

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toilet-Activated-ZSZT-Cha...

Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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Mars said:
I'm just looking for something along these lines. Are they on all the time or triggered by movement? I would prefer the former as it's properly dark where I live. Just a very low glow on the landing would suit.
They are light sensitive and switch on when it is dark, movement not required. It is only 3 watts so not a big drain on power

un1eash

667 posts

169 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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You can get motion sensor versions that still switch on/off when it's day/night.

Mercdriver

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62 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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If you have them at top of stairs you really need them on during darkness, too dangerous to wait for them to switch on while you step near the stairs in the dark.

Depends on your location I suppose

Pip1968

1,393 posts

233 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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Mercdriver said:
If you have kids these are ideal for a bedroom or hallway, just enough light to see by if someone has to get up in middle of night without putting on main lights. If I remember they are 3 watts

Good value at £3.98, we have three of them still as good as new 5 years later, recommended.

I am not a toolstation employee just a happy customer!
WTF !!! A bloomin pooh light. What next? Loominous tape running from the bedroom to the pan.

What's wrong with just getting them to sit down like a girl. No chance of missing the pan.

To be honest with you I wonder how it will all end. Energy prices are increasing along with populations but at the same time everything is being electrified - toothbrushes to closing the boot on your car. How can it go on when more and more people are getting increased access to electrification (I am thinking Third World). Even electric cars, look at how much they weigh that has to be more energy compared to a lightweight motor vehicle.

Pip
Ps yes I know 3 Watts but ....



Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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You have missed the point, it is about getting around in the dark in safety, not necessarily going to toilet.

I do not sleep very well and frequently get up in the middle of the night and read a book so I do not disturb SHMBO


However thank you for your contribution!



Edited by Mercdriver on Sunday 31st July 18:42

Pip1968

1,393 posts

233 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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Possibly yes but your eyes become accustomed to darkness after 30 minutes and unless your wife is constntly moving the furniture you soon learn where the obstacles are. I have managed to get to the toilet and other areas of the house safely for many years without the lights on.

Frequently on jobs coming in late at night or leaving early in the morning I do not have a problem working in darkness. I have also been in the bush and jungle without a 'safety' light. It is very rarely pitch black anyway. I think it was a military commander who had all his men train at night to be comfortable working in darkness. Anyway for kids maybe but for a grown man - ?? Darkness should be your friend not your enemy.

Each to their own.

Pip
Ps there is always the torch invented in the 1890s - and now with LED bulbs !!!
Pps Loominous slippers anyone??

Andeh1

7,593 posts

235 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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Some people never left 1968...

un1eash

667 posts

169 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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We use ours on the landing for the kids to go toilet at night, their 3 and 5.

Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Sunday 31st July 2022
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Frequently on jobs coming in late at night or leaving early in the morning I do not have a problem working in darkness. I have also been in the bush and jungle without a 'safety' light. It is very rarely pitch black anyway. I think it was a military commander who had all his men train at night to be comfortable working in darkness. Anyway for kids maybe but for a grown man - ?? Darkness should be your friend not your enemy.


Sorry no military training and at 75 I need to be careful moving about in the dark.


Anyway I posted this in the hope it might help others… I am out