Just an update after some comments on the lights in arch 2.
The lights are split into banks of three
1 front woodshop… from table saw to entrance door,
2 rear woodshop … workbenches and Cnc to doors to metalwork.
3 metalwork area
These are turned on with three sensors and turned off after 5 minutes of inactivity to save money.
After getting reports that they were not working I found that items from the old woodshop had been placed in the view of the sensors.
Two wooden cupboards had been piled up in front of the spindle moulders and the metal work sensor was completely obscured.( Where the waste wood is stored)
I have moved these and placed the metalwork sensor into another position.
I will be looking at getting another 3 -4 sensors one for the snug, one for the lathe area and one for the pottery room and possibly one for inside the Cnc enclosure so the entire arch 2 lights are totally automatic and energy saving.
If any lights are not working as you like, please give feedback and I will sort it.
The big cnc doesn’t need sensors for the lights. It could actually be a safety issue if installed as they can go off while the machine is working and people would tend to go close to it waving their hands to turn them back on. With the door coming in the issue won’t solve ( they will go off anyway if the sensor is installed).
As part of the induction, the members will be instructed to switch them off when finish using the cnc.
I also think it’s an issue in the wood lathe area… Example… The lights always go off when I’m in the woodshop, even if I move around a bit ( i think i mentioned a couple of times), so if you imagine standing still while working on the woodlathe and suddenly everything goes dark…
I’ll leave this to the @woodlathetechs obviously.
Hey, just to give an idea - now this kind of things exists: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204253093903?var=504820865525
It is not PIR but 24GHz radar instead. This sensor is detecting micromotion, and doesn’t really care whether you move or lie sleeping on the floor (as long as you’re breathing).
I agree, I would think of the lights are kind a part of the machine, not general lighting, users will turn it all off after use, but there is no point in making it motion sensitive…
It does, I kept an eye on the tecnology for a while, it uses radar technology and it can basically sense breathing and heardbeat and it’s tuned on this frequency, it’s very sensitive but it can be tuned.
The real question is, how is it going to deal with the trains? is it going to switch the lighs on every time a train cross the arch?
Could this be connected to the big tools so if all the hard wired tools are on, no movement wont shut the lights off? How hard is this to wire up? @joeatkin2
No i was serious… Think about that… Over automation will bring “laziness” ( please allow me the word) and risks… “I don’t need to think about switching off the machine… It will automatically go off when i leave…”
What I’m saying is that maybe the system it’s not perfect, but that doesn’t mean can’t be fixed and doesn’t have to be scrapped because it need works, that’s not how innovation works in general and neither engineering.
