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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Unger" data-source="post: 3358" data-attributes="member: 1044">Greetings all,Few know, but my family owns a small donut shop locally. We lease the building, and proper signage is not included. We bought a roadside mobile sign and it does seem to help. The only issue is to make it light up, it needs power. There&#039;s no outlet by the road, so they run 150ft of ugly orange cable every morning from 4-7am. I don&#039;t like it. It limits where we can put the sign, as the cable is a trip hazard.I had an Idea: Use LED&#039;s in the sign, put a car battery in the sign and a small solar panel on top, and have a photo sensor connected to a relay to turn everything off during the day. I just don&#039;t know the best way to go about doing this, and would like some input before I buy a bunch of the wrong parts.Picture of the sign: <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b383/Monomer001x/2012-01-15_13-01-50_776.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kevin Unger, post: 3358, member: 1044"] Greetings all, Few know, but my family owns a small donut shop locally. We lease the building, and proper signage is not included. We bought a roadside mobile sign and it does seem to help. The only issue is to make it light up, it needs power. There's no outlet by the road, so they run 150ft of ugly orange cable every morning from 4-7am. I don't like it. It limits where we can put the sign, as the cable is a trip hazard. I had an Idea: Use LED's in the sign, put a car battery in the sign and a small solar panel on top, and have a photo sensor connected to a relay to turn everything off during the day. I just don't know the best way to go about doing this, and would like some input before I buy a bunch of the wrong parts. Picture of the sign: [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b383/Monomer001x/2012-01-15_13-01-50_776.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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