I need help. Bought some reflective yard signs. Read the city ordinance and it mentions “no illuminated yard sign’.
Are reflective yard signs considered illuminated?
Edited 7/22/2007 3:34 pm ET by bc
I need help. Bought some reflective yard signs. Read the city ordinance and it mentions “no illuminated yard sign’.
Are reflective yard signs considered illuminated?
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I would say no.
illuminated means they generate their own light. Reflective surfaces means light is generated elsewhere, strikes the reflective material and is then visible again.
Give them the example of the moon - it's bright, but it's just reflected light.
Forrest
If you install a light to shine on it or if it has built in light, it is illuminated. Plain reflective iss not illuminated until the headlights roll by and illuminate it.
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technically ALL yard signs are reflective...
and every one you can SEE is illuminated...
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I found my Pants....
But what it if is illuminated by a DED (dark emitting diode)BTW, DED'd are very green. Unlike LED's there usage does not cause any greenhouse gas emissions..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
DED's don't illuminate, they DE-luminate.sucking in light and actually producing electricity...I turned my array on on August 14 2003.I was politely asked to cease and desist....
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I found my Pants....
And, curiously, all LED manufacturing lines also produde DEDs. The % of LEDs produced added to the % of DEDs produced always totals to 100% of the production run.
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"no illuminated yard sign"
I guess that means in your town no "Merry Christmas" spelled out in red and green lights - unless you put it on your roof and then it becomes a roof sign, right?
No, "illuminated" means lit by artificial light.
Hey BC,
Neonuk (Sp?) is mighty close. (I think). I used to fly a lot of NVGs and we had a lot of light issues. If I remember correctly, Illumination is the amount of light that strikes a surface any given distance from a source. I.E. A flag on a pole is illuminated by ground lights.
Luminance is the amount of light reflected or emitted from a surface. I.E. a refelector sign or a business/store sign.
Reflectance is the ratio of illumination and luminance.
So, I am thinking, technically, (Though the city may not like my thinking) If your sign reflects its okay. It just can not be illuminated. Which I am also thinking means you cannot bathe it in light during the nighttime hours.
Was that too much info? Well, good luck.
BTW- I can pull references for you if you like.
KD
I appreciate everyone's comments. I think I am going to continue using them and see what happens...
I honeslty don't think it is more annoying than a walmar/mcdonalds sign...