Need Advice To Keep Me From Breaking My Butt

[MEXICOWANDERER]

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.

I would love to wire up a gaming size push-button switch to side of the night stand. Turn it into a 12 volt toggle latching circuit.

Tap into overhead 12 volt power line.

Wire in WIRELESS CONTROL switches to power the CREE 8 watt lights. The gaming button of course would toggle the chips on and off. Two chips, one in bedroom the 2nd in the bathroom.

Now before you get all excited this is also for a stick and brick dwelling. I'll use the Lifeline as a power supply.

No worries about running main 12 volt power, but I want the gaming button to be wireless control. I may move the bed or even bedroom.

Wireless switching of a 12 volt load simultaneous multiple locations is the goal.

I am also going to fit an adjustable 555 timer module in case I forget or the gaming button* gets accidentally switched. 20 minutes max.

*4" diameter. Momentary action.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Your replies encouraged a needle-in-a haystack-search.

On eBay I found a solo A & B transmitter with telescoping antenna. no ridiculous 12 volt tiny battery. 9-volt therefore a Lithium would last years. 1,000 meter range. Good for thick concrete interior walls.

Multiple coded 12-volt receivers with 10-amp rated relay. <2ma quiescent draw.

Program one receiver at a time. The rest disconnected from the circuit.

Paint with recommended glo-in-dark green paint to find A & B buttons in dark.

I tried pucks. They need a correct 12 volt TO220 voltage regulator for elimination of two dollar a pop down-here alkaline batteries.

Thanks Everyone. The system gets ripped out and moved with me.

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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Old fashioned Mexican houses are land mines. Glass smooth tile. Bathroom floors raised 10" for the toilet trap. Ramped up leaving the bathroom then a 10" step down. One good hand to hold a lantern the bad hand to hold or grab nothing.

Might as well just puck yourself Mex:

https://www.amazon.com/Battery-powered-Wireless-Cabinets-Counters-Cordless/dp/B018NJYT7Y/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1497720221&sr=8-7&keywords=puck+light

Remotes too:
https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Evolution-BRRC135-Wireless-Control/dp/B01JTA4QXI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8...

[TenOC]

I have LED nightlights in most of my rooms that come on automatically at night. With a power outage they get brighter and act as a flashlight.

[Naio]

You also could keep a pee jug by the bed. The garden would appeciate it, I speak from experience!

[Naio]

Do you have a cane, would that help with balance? Takes one more hand, I realise. But if you had light?

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Old fashioned Mexican houses are land mines. Glass smooth tile. Bathroom floors raised 10" for the toilet trap. Ramped up leaving the bathroom then a 10" step down. One good hand to hold a lantern the bad hand to hold or grab nothing.

[Naio]

Oh, I forgot. I also have a little hanging battery lantern on a hook by the bed. That is very handy. It's securely attached; I turn it on and off without unhooking it.

[Naio]

Lots of good ideas in this thread.

Me,I rely on my phone (flashlight app) and a cord that plugs SNUGLY into its charging socket. If I drop the phone I can gently pull it back up onto the bed by the cord. Here fishy, fishy...

One time I sat down on a rolling chair on a concrete floor. Too close to the front of edge of the seat, chair zipped out from under me, wham, I hit the concrete. Sat there laughing. My friend: 'Are you ok?! Why are you laughing?' Me: 'I broke my azz!' Just the coccyx.

[Horizon170]

O,Man, ya don't need flashlights to find your way around in the dark.
I just rely on my toes, they find all the obstacles and I just move around them until the toes find another obstacle. This way I don't waste electrical energy.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

My left hand and wrist reminds me not to be overly stupid or even cavalier. I got away with murder when I was young. It's backpay time I guess.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

A Mad Max search on eBay turned up wireless receivers with 10 amp relay. I sent a message asking if one transmitter can handle multiple receivers simultaneously. I will wire the transmitter to to the battery using a TO220 voltage reg. I hope it is possible. BTW I checked a half dozen battery operated motion detectors while in the store down south. Average .007 ampere quiescent draw. Not cool with small batteries. They have to "know" when to turn on. Thanks for the suggestion!

[Lwiddis]

Regarding the headline, which cheek? Or both cheeks?

[JaxDad]

I found a few different (adjustable sensitivity) motion activated LED lights, little ones, not much more than a cheap pocket-sized flashlight in brightness. They run on a pair of AA batteries. They also have a dusk to dawn only function.

In a setting like a bedroom they come on if you get up they come on, if you roll over they do not.

They were something like $5 each.

[wa8yxm]

All Electronics dot com

They have 10/20 amp 12 volt relays
and a 4 channel Radio remote Key Fob system (Both key fob and receiver) which can be set to either latching or momentary .. I plan to get that for this RV.

Now just don't loose your keys.