Need Advice To Keep Me From Breaking My Butt
Or arm, leg, hip. whatever... Power outages. Had one last night. Reached for flashlight in pitch black, knocked it off the night stand and it rolled under the bed. Old-age. Uncoordinated-city. ...
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Well I -really really- do not want to do an involuntary reveille at 0255 just because the power failed. It happens too often. My BiPAP is UPS with the Lifeline. I have a gooseneck 120 vac lamp with a weighted base and pushbutton. Pushy pushy still pitch black I want to braille my fingers onto a toggle button. Yes I "could" convert the lamp to 12 volts but the bathroom means a trip through the bedroom, through a short hall, through the kitchen, through the laundry room...
A pair of those 8 watt Cree chips would give me enough light to navigate. The dis-intelligent structure builder placed the kitchen switch on the far side of the kitchen, and of course the bedroom light is placed over the foot of the bed with the switch by the front door.
Emergency lighting is great. But for down here it would mean perhaps 200 cycles per year. But thanks for the suggestion.
I DO HAVE a 12 volt reading light next to the recliner. A sudden power loss would have me toggle the bedroom light, then return to switch off the reading light. The kitchen light (8 watts 120 volts) stays on until I go to bed. I switch on the bedroom 12 volt reading light (intense!) then return and switch off the kitchen (120vac) light.
This all sounds amusing. But old age plus a cornucopia of cardiac medications causes not-so-amusing vertigo when the lights go out.
A pair of those 8 watt Cree chips would give me enough light to navigate. The dis-intelligent structure builder placed the kitchen switch on the far side of the kitchen, and of course the bedroom light is placed over the foot of the bed with the switch by the front door.
Emergency lighting is great. But for down here it would mean perhaps 200 cycles per year. But thanks for the suggestion.
I DO HAVE a 12 volt reading light next to the recliner. A sudden power loss would have me toggle the bedroom light, then return to switch off the reading light. The kitchen light (8 watts 120 volts) stays on until I go to bed. I switch on the bedroom 12 volt reading light (intense!) then return and switch off the kitchen (120vac) light.
This all sounds amusing. But old age plus a cornucopia of cardiac medications causes not-so-amusing vertigo when the lights go out.
