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US 7,093,956 B2Granted
Method of lighting for protecting sea turtles
AssigneeBeeman Holdings, Inc.
InventorsDavid C. Miller, Eric Bretschneider
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Abstract
A method of lighting to protect sea turtles comprises providing in a housing both a white light source, for example a low-voltage incandescent source, and a red LED source that is visible to humans but that does not interfere with the normal nesting and hatching behavior of sea turtles, and selectively energizing the latter source during turtle nesting season.
Claims5
A method of lighting for protecting sea turtles comprising
- providing a housing containing first and second selectively operable low-voltage light sources and switch means for selectively energizing either light source, wherein the first low-voltage light source is a source of white light that is usefully visible to humans but interferes with the normal nesting and hatching of sea turtles, and wherein the second low-voltage light source is an LED source that is usefully visible to humans but does not interfere with the normal nesting and hatching of sea turtles, that has a peak wavelength greater than 590 nm but not greater than 650 nm, and that comprises at least one string of from six to nine LED's in series, and
- selectively energizing the second light source rather than the first light source during turtle nesting season.
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