In comparison to
the standard lights for security, solar lighting is simple to install. All one
would need to do is to attach the light to a wall or on a roof edge, making
sure that the position of the light is high enough above the ground so that is
cannot be reached by vandals or thieves, making sure also that its position is
exactly where you might want to detect the kind of movement that may be deemed
as intrusive and would be where a prowler would be lurking.
You may also want
to position a security light that is solar powered in the vicinity of any
ground floor windows as these are the areas most favored by opportunist thieves
when attempting to break into a premises or cause damage to the property.
Solar powered
security lighting does have one issue that may be regarded as not within its
favour; when positioning solar lighting it should always face in a direction
where the sun shines longest. Usually this means positioning the solar panel so
that it faces south. This is obviously going to be problematic if your
reception entrance or the windows you want to keep a security light beamed on,
are facing in the wrong direction for solar powered security lighting.
One of the more
common places where solar lighting is being positioned is in the sheds located
in people's back gardens. Shed thieving has become a very common target for
night prowlers and robbers who need to make a quick buck out of something that
might have value within your shed.
Houses have become
more and more secure in recent years with the introduction of double glazed
windows and doors and burglaries are being deterred by a resolute public,
making a break in to any home far more difficult than it was 30 or 40 years
ago. It is for this reason that sheds have become a common target for thieves
as breaking into here means nobody is likely to be at home (unless someone has
been sent out of the house and into the shed for night), there can often be
items of value in there and few people are likely to hear you as you are not
actually entering the home or the property itself.
Some of the more
common items that are targeted by thieves in sheds are lawnmowers, power tools,
and expensive sets of shears, tool sets, socket sets, drills and drill parts.
Often the shed is a place where kids may park their bicycles in at night. All
of these items are sold on by thieves and used to turn into cold hard cash. All
the time a thief is operating inside your shed, he or she does so under the
cover of darkness; that is of course unless you get a solar powered security
light positioned right outside the shed.
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