Street lighting for many rural communities is a very painful issue. As a rule, rural administrations simply do not have the means to ensure normal street lighting. Nevertheless, there is a way out even of this difficult situation.
You will need
- LED light sources.
Instruction manual
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Find out why your village administration cannot provide good street lighting. Most likely, the answer will be traditional - there is no money. Typically, administrations in sparsely populated areas find it difficult to find funds even for the most urgent needs, in these circumstances, few leaders dare to spend already scarce money on full street lighting. The result of this approach is well known to rural residents - on most streets at night, at best, one or two street lamps are lit.
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Find out what lighting sources are used in your village. As a rule, they are gas discharge lamps - powerful, but not too economical. Such a lamp has been working for only a few years, and taking into account the consumed electricity, it becomes simply golden.
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Invite the administration to switch to the use of modern high-performance street lamps. The most demanded today in this area are LED light sources. They are very economical and unpretentious, the guaranteed service life of the LED flashlight reaches 10 years. They can be used with a wide variation in supply voltage, which is especially important for rural settlements. LED light sources can operate in a wide temperature range, sealed enclosures eliminate the need for maintenance.
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If the administration refers to the high cost of such lamps, explain that if you add the cost of the LED light source to the cost of electricity consumed over 10 years and compare it with the same indicators of ordinary street lamps, then it is the LED lamps that are the cheapest. Such lanterns are simply beneficial for rural settlements, since they allow achieving very large savings.
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You can even do without the cost of electricity if you buy LED lights with a rechargeable battery and a solar battery. Of course, they cost much more, but after installing such a flashlight you can forget about it for 10 years at all - during the day it will be charged, and when it gets dark it will turn on automatically.
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If the village administration really does not have the opportunity to purchase new lights, try to organize a fundraising among the residents of your village for the purchase of LED lighting sources. Unfortunately, in the current situation, the old slogan “Saving the drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves” is still valid.
