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My 2 cents is that your arguments are not going to go anywhere unless you show them. Can you get the contractor to wire up two or three in a few different places (in shade, out of shade, etc.) so that people can see the difference? What is the projected yearly maintenance cost on these (replacement batteries)? Can you get replacements 10 years from now that will match the others. How much sunshine is needed to keep them working (ie. what happens when we have a good few days of cloudy weather). In general I can see the desire to get away from the gas lights. IMHO I can't imagine anyone putting in gas lights in their subdivision.

I live in a 300+ home subdivision. I also don't know how large or small your subdivision is. Assuming that everyone has one of these in front of their house $8K seems insanely cheap to me. So cheap as to question if it can be done for that. But that is a gut response as I have no knowledge of how much these things cost or how many need to be replaced.

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our subdivision is only 46 houses, I got the $8000 figure from an estimated $200/lamp, which is probably still an underestimate.

The thing that gets to me is people fixating on these stupid problems when the streets in our neighborhood are falling apart, one of the damages spots has cracked the sewer underneat (and they are the responsibilty of the HOA to maintain b/c they are too narrow to meet town of Cary codes), and the neighborhood BADLY needs additional parking built (since we took away a lot of spots that people used to park to assure emergency vehicle access).

This is just me venting at this point really though, I think I can illustate my point to them about color temperature by using my truck (conventional halogen headlights) and my mazda (HID) to show them what I'm talking about.

Are there any solar lights that actually put out reasonable colored light? The only ones I've ever seen are always either super white or REALLY yellow. Gas lamps put out light more in the 3500-4000k range I believe, this is what they are looking for (even though they don't know it). This is the closest thing I've seen, and light output is claimed to be "white", but if this is using what I'm used to seeing as white LED's, it'll look more like a fluorescent light than a gas lamp. . .

http://www.solarilluminations.com/acata ... tures.html

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