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As a side mini-rant, the Starbucks I used to go to had energy-saving motion sensitive light switches in the bathrooms. Walk in, lights turn on, after some idle
by tonyarkles 10y ago
As a side mini-rant, the Starbucks I used to go to had energy-saving motion sensitive light switches in the bathrooms. Walk in, lights turn on, after some idle period they shut back off.
Except the timer interval was way too short. If I'm taking a long shit, sure, I can deal with a slight inconvenience of having to wave my arm to get more light... But if I'm standing there and peeing, and the lights turn off, that's a pretty serious bug!
- Klathmon 10y agoAnd that's the exact reason why I hate current solutions for this kind of thing. When I was younger, we had a motion sensing light switch in my bedroom (because I was a little shit that never turned my lights off). It used to infuriate me because if I rolled over too much at night, the light would go on. If we messed with it to the point that it didn't happen any more, it would turn off when i'm just sitting there reading or something. Something that could determine where you are not by motion but by the fact that you are a large bag of water would be much more accurate and could basically stop the "lights randomly going off at the worst time" issues.
- cat199 10y agoThis is why for the toilet case they are coupled with auto flushers that fire too easily when you lean forward or backwards slightly - it keeps the user standing up suddenly to avoid the splash at intervals small enough to keep the lights on. Apparently they couldn't figure out an equivalent invention for the standing-urination case, especially since hand sink sensors don't even trigger when you wave your hands entirely over them several times and so most certainly couldn't be used here in the case of the less endowed gentleman...