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Appreciation post: I called those $12 stick-on under-desk lights a gimmick, then I ate my words
I have a cheap IKEA desk in my spare room in Tulsa with zero outlets nearby, so I laughed at those $12 rechargeable stick-on lights for a solid 6 months. My wife grabbed a two pack anyway and stuck one under the desk lip. Last week I was rerouting a power strip in the dark and it lit up everything, one charge lasted 11 days on the low setting. Now I run both, one for cables and one over the keyboard, and I actually see what I am doing when I fish a USB cable behind the tower. Turns out the cheap magnetic ones hold fine if you wipe the surface with rubbing alcohol first, mine have not fallen once in 4 months. Anyone here tried the motion sensor models, do they eat the battery faster than the plain switch ones?
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the_derek9h ago
Had the same setup in my last place, no outlets on that wall at all so everything ran off extension cords. I skipped the motion sensor ones for the same reason you're asking, figured they'd trigger every time I walked past and burn through charges. Went with plain switches and a two pack, one under the desk and one in the closet. Fourteen months later both still hold a charge for about a week if I leave them on low. The trick for me was not trusting the sticky pad, I used the little screws that came in the box on the desk side and kept the magnet strip on the light itself. Zero falls since.
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