Morat20 t1_j570wy8 wrote
Reply to comment by AStartIsBorn in The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off by AStartIsBorn
Auto-on makes sense for lights. If there's a failure, it's nicer if you can see what you're working on.
And doubly so for a building that likely has plenty of fully indoor rooms, with poor to nonexistent natural lighting, so if the system breaks and it defaults to off you have a bunch of people in the dark trying to get out.
Like any of the school theaters or band rooms in my HS back in the day would have been pitch-black nightmares. Of course people have phones now which help, but you really don't want to depend on whomever is suddenly in a pitch-black room having their phone on them.
biggsteve81 t1_j58bzq8 wrote
Even more serious, imagine if the bathroom lights all switched completely off.
Mend1cant t1_j58meqs wrote
Been there before. Motion sensor was set way too short on the shutoff. Couldn’t get an angle from the stall.
AStartIsBorn OP t1_j5769il wrote
You make an excellent point. However, maybe the lights shouldn't be set to full-blast as the default mode. For instance, emergency lights (at least ones that I have encountered), don't offer as much light as normal lights, but enough to make things comfortably visible.
Morat20 t1_j57nfqi wrote
Right but in this case default isn't "we don't have power" (emergency lights are battery powered for that reason) it's "The control system is totally not working, our software is borked, what's our failure state".
I mean if it's going to be a few days to get fixed they'll want to be able to still use the building!
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