kodiakcanuck
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The campsite we where at was heavily treed and got dark very early, there was no star gazing because you couldn't see through the trees. Rather than annoy my neighbours with my very bright white light on the side of the trailer (which I plan to change to an amber light) I would like to give off just a little light for the kids. I can see how it could get annoying, but no more annoying than the christmas lights and rope lights that people put up.
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I use the jump wire, but I patched a 12 volt toggle switch in the line. I have the plug holder on my jack stand and then wire and switch slide in the bottom. I'm still looking for a 12 volt timer though so I don't have to go out and shut em down at night. I have the timer on my awning lights but they are 110 volt.
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funny you mention this as this past weekend we were camped in a state park and the Fifth wheeler on one side of us got into a little discussion with the pop upper next to him. the pop up didn't have a/c and they also used a tent along with it. the fifth wheeler had his lights going all night and the pop upper family was upset as it apparently was bright on them. the host had to come intervene and the fifth wheeler was asked nicely to not run them in this case. made me stop and think that any of our lights after sunset we will look around at neighbors . i know my wife and kids can't sleep with much light around, me it doesn't matter. noise, lights whatever- i'm gonna sleep. but nothing worse than a wife and kids the next day who didn't sleep much lol. that amber light shines pretty bright when it gets really dark and the fire has gone out I noticed. wife found some blue and some green rope lights that seem good for night use here at home but we will find out how they are in the wooded campground this weekend. also got a couple solar lights that aren't real bright to try out.
so we're going to assess the neighbors and just like the noise try to do our night time lights to consider all. our first trip out, we ended up by some people that had their outside speakers blaring and then they yelled their conversation over that until past quiet hours even but it wasn't much worse at night than during the day. thought the wife was going to throw in the towel on the brand new unit we had right then but whew they were gone the next day by the time we got back to the campsite from the lake
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surveyorjp
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PopBeavers wrote:K&R wrote:jocobe wrote:Great....trailer bling.......
Whats wrong with a little bling?
When star gazing in an otherwise pitch dark campground, any light makes it difficult to see through the telescope.
It is not a problem if you only run the lights between sunrise and sunset.
I have yet to visit a "pitch dark" campground. Star gazing is best done in an open field where one is completely alone. I don't expect everyone to have to trip over their picnic tables, awnings, lawn chairs, etc. in the dark just so I can see the big dipper.
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Chuck_S
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The Christmas lights and rope lights that people put up are highly annoying when it's time to sleep. "Tacky lights" is not a compliment. Kill the lights when you go to sleep. Porch lights are too. Don't get me started on outside speakers.  They rank right up there with dirt bikes, construction generators, and chainsaws -- day or night.
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surveyorjp wrote:PopBeavers wrote:K&R wrote:jocobe wrote:Great....trailer bling.......
Whats wrong with a little bling?
When star gazing in an otherwise pitch dark campground, any light makes it difficult to see through the telescope.
It is not a problem if you only run the lights between sunrise and sunset.
I have yet to visit a "pitch dark" campground. Star gazing is best done in an open field where one is completely alone. I don't expect everyone to have to trip over their picnic tables, awnings, lawn chairs, etc. in the dark just so I can see the big dipper.
Where I was camping this past weekend, in an NFS campground, the nearest electric power was 10 miles away. Any light was coming from batteries because after 10 PM there are no generators.
If I have my telescope with me, and there are young children around, then I will ask them if they are interested in looking at the planets. Most kids have never seen the rings of Saturn or the moons of Jupiter. I do not do serious stargazing. Just recreational. I don't need total darkness, but it sure helps if it is dark enough that I can not read a book.
I will leave one porch light on all night when we have guests staying in a tent with us, so they an come in to use our bathroom, or my blind brother in law is with us, so he can find the trailer in the dark if he gets up to walk around to stretch his back (He has some vision). Otherwise, at bedtime all lights are out.
I can see no reason to leave a bunch of lights on when I am sound asleep. If they serve no useful purpose to me, then they are just running down my batteries and annoying the neighbors.
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Chuck_S wrote:The Christmas lights and rope lights that people put up are highly annoying when it's time to sleep. "Tacky lights" is not a compliment. Kill the lights when you go to sleep. Porch lights are too. Don't get me started on outside speakers. They rank right up there with dirt bikes, construction generators, and chainsaws -- day or night.
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The only time you will hear my dirt bikes or ATVs is when we are riding out to the trails or back into camp. They meet all government sound restrictions. My dirt bikes are quieter than some diesels. Don't get me started about the noisy (some, but not all) idling diesels.
I'm with you on the chainsaws and contractor generators. Add some of the built-in MH generators that are nearly as loud as the contractor generators and certainly louder than my dirt bikes and ATVs. If I could make my dirt bikes as quiet as my Honda 2000 I would, but I do not know how to do that.
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Ahhh. The days of noisy diesels. This stupid 6.4L needs to get some lungs. Why buy a diesel if you can't hear it, right? Just kidding.
We camp alot of the time in a CG that many use the running lights for show. We have the CW globes, and at the rated 60 watt bulbs, you get a tan sitting under them. We switched to 25 watters, and still too bright. Last weekened our site faced the next trailer, so I immediately turned our lights off when they came out to their fire pit and only turned our son in the day for the kids. I need to find standard base bulbs with one LED in them now.
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I see the light police are out in full force.
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I have a friend that was on vacation. They were camping in a tent at the time. A motor home pulled into the site nest to him even though the sites had electricity the motor home people ran their generator all night long. The gen was facing their tent. They didn't sleep that night. The next night samething. In the middle of the night my friend went over to their generator and wired the choke closed. It was peaceful after that. When my friend was leaving a repairman showed up to work on the generator.
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