Residential Security Lighting, Where to Put It and Where Not To|Does Security Lighting Work? Here Is What Matters|Rethinking Security Lighting for Homes and Businesses
The floodlight instinct Almost everybody starts with a floodlight. The instinct makes sense and does not hold up. One bright light produces hard edges, and everything past the beam is harder to see than before.Put all of that together and it looks different from a floodlight on a bracket. It is several modest sources rather than one strong one, aimed at the places that need it. It costs no more than the floodlight approach in most cases, and it works. The principle worth r
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The floodlight instinct Almost everybody starts with a floodlight. The instinct makes sense and does not hold up. One bright light produces hard edges, and everything past the beam is harder to see than before.Put all of that together and it looks different from a floodlight on a bracket. It is several modest sources rather than one strong one, aimed at the places that need it. It costs no more than the floodlight approach in most cases, and it works. The principle worth r
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