<div><br></div>Something like this:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.555-timer-circuits.com/led-dimmer.html">http://www.555-timer-circuits.com/led-dimmer.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>? If I'm reading it right I could find what brightness to put the LED at and put it near the sensor.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Pete Hardie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Get a 555, and a few LEDs, and search for a simple circuit. The 555<br>
will let you run the LEDs at partial power, so longer battery life.<br>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Robert L. Harris<br>
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><br>
> So, I'm now in a new office building. The internal florescent lights are<br>
> pretty bloody bright. It seems though that there is a sensor in them that<br>
> if the sun is out and bright, they dim. I'm thinking I need some small<br>
> devices I can make from RadioShack I can throw up in them to force them to<br>
> Dim. The closest thing I can find online is the anoyatron which isn't quite<br>
> what I have in mind, I want these to just dim the lights around me.<br>
><br>
> Any thoughts or anyone who can tell me how to put together something that'll<br>
> run off a 9v battery for quite some time?<br>
><br>
> Robert<br>
><br>
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