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Stolen garden lights... bluehorshoe_68 11-13-2006
Posted by on November 13, 2006, 7:27 pm
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I've recently tried to put in solar lights in our front garden beds
(they are quite cheap fortunately!)...the ones that you simply poke
into the ground. But soon after some of the lights were stolen, which
we actually got back as a kind neighbour found them in his front yard.
But over the weekend 5 entire lights were stolen, and this time I don't
think they are coming back. Anyone else had this problem, and more
importantly, does anyone have any ideas how to stop this?! Had ideas of
chaining them together underground, or perhaps trying to lay them in a
concrete block underground. Personally I'd probably wire up the metal
casing to the 240V supply, but my wife is stopping me.. :) Thanks for
any ideas.

BH


Posted by Leftred on November 13, 2006, 8:24 pm
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>
> I've recently tried to put in solar lights in our front garden beds
> (they are quite cheap fortunately!)...the ones that you simply poke
> into the ground. But soon after some of the lights were stolen, which
> we actually got back as a kind neighbour found them in his front yard.
> But over the weekend 5 entire lights were stolen, and this time I don't
> think they are coming back. Anyone else had this problem, and more
> importantly, does anyone have any ideas how to stop this?! Had ideas of
> chaining them together underground, or perhaps trying to lay them in a
> concrete block underground. Personally I'd probably wire up the metal
> casing to the 240V supply, but my wife is stopping me.. :) Thanks for
> any ideas.
>
> BH

Why bother? They are virtually useless as lights anyway. If you must have
lights in your garden, buy a 12volt system.



Posted by Rod Out Back on November 13, 2006, 9:12 pm
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On 13 Nov 2006 16:27:53 -0800, bluehorshoe_68@yahoo.com wrote:

>
>I've recently tried to put in solar lights in our front garden beds
>(they are quite cheap fortunately!)...the ones that you simply poke
>into the ground. But soon after some of the lights were stolen, which
>we actually got back as a kind neighbour found them in his front yard.
>But over the weekend 5 entire lights were stolen, and this time I don't
>think they are coming back. Anyone else had this problem, and more
>importantly, does anyone have any ideas how to stop this?! Had ideas of
>chaining them together underground, or perhaps trying to lay them in a
>concrete block underground. Personally I'd probably wire up the metal
>casing to the 240V supply, but my wife is stopping me.. :) Thanks for
>any ideas.
>
>BH

Cheap electric fence unit with some hot-tape run around so they have to lean
over it to nick the lights? That'll spook them up. A zap will most likely
remove the incentive to nick garden lights...


Cheers,

Rod.....Out Back

Posted by Dave -Turner on November 15, 2006, 8:43 am
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Thieves are stupid (if they weren't they'd have a job) ... try superglueing
a padlock to each light as a visual deterent. The idiots will see the
padlock, assume it has been protected and proceed elsewhere. In a way it's
such a stupid idea, but then people who steal $10 garden lights are pretty
stupid in their own rights.




Posted by John Savage on November 16, 2006, 1:12 am
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bluehorshoe_68@yahoo.com writes:
>I've recently tried to put in solar lights in our front garden beds
>(they are quite cheap fortunately!)...the ones that you simply poke
>into the ground. But soon after some of the lights were stolen, which

I'm surprised that theft hasn't been the fate of most of these simple
lights. Even were you to fix them into concrete, their top simply press
fits onto the support spike so you'd probably be left with just a row of
decapitated plastic supports if they are the sort I'm thinking of.

Maybe you could concrete some short lengths of galvanised pipe of the
right diameter into the ground and then fit the lamp's optic assembly onto
the pipe as an alternative mount? Thwart theft of the lamp assembly by
liberal use of epoxy resin to bond the assembly to the pipe and to also
bond all of the lamp pieces together. This will mean you probably will not
be able to access the NiCd battery should it ever need replacing, but these
probably have a MTBF of a couple of years anyway.

If this sounds like too much trouble, just fit one with GPS and wireless
internet and set it to email you its coordinates hourly. :-)
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

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