daylight sensor: how to make it more sensitive?

[BetaDnB]

Who/what says I'm upset? I see it as more of a common sense thing than a "view"...

[BLRich1]

someone mentioned the sun glasses; could you slip a small piece of tint on the windshield over the lens? tint will stick and you can get a huge range of %'s.

[BetaDnB]

Not sure that would work being the rays hit it from all sorts of angles. Legally as well (in NY) you can't have tint on the windshield anywhere below 6 inches from the top. Yes they'd probably give you a ticket for it here.

[*Ed8r*]

This is probably getting OT, but . . .

Originally Posted by bawxcar

I see black cars just the same as red and yellow. Easily.

Yes, but black is not the problem, necessarily. I don't remember (I suppose I could Google, but I'm lazy) from color studies which colors "disappear" first in low-level light, but some (maybe grays? or gray-greens?) tend to fade into the background sooner than others.

[bawxcar]

My last focus was tinted top and bottom of the windshield. Never had a problem.

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[BLRich1]

I guess instead of tinting a small section above the sensor, the tint would stick to the sensor as well. It would be more temporary than the sharpie idea that was thrown out.

but....every time I think about this, I think, "how hard is it to flip the switch?" you are thinking about the lights anyway so its not like it is really auto anyway.

[FrostedG]

For all the typing that's been done on this post, you moved your fingers enough to have manually turned the lights on and off for the next 5 years.

[BetaDnB]

Originally Posted by BLRich1

I guess instead of tinting a small section above the sensor, the tint would stick to the sensor as well. It would be more temporary than the sharpie idea that was thrown out.

but....every time I think about this, I think, "how hard is it to flip the switch?" you are thinking about the lights anyway so its not like it is really auto anyway.

I had mentioned tinting the sensor itself previously, but it's such a tight spot it would be tough to do...at least to have it look good. And I agree with you. Anytime I feel my headlights should be on and they're not, I flip the switch.

[TboneZX3]

Originally Posted by FrostedG

For all the typing that's been done on this post, you moved your fingers enough to have manually turned the lights on and off for the next 5 years.

Well said.

[brent375hh]

This is my first car that has the dash lights on all the time. I was not used to looking for the little green headlamp on the bottom of the tach to know if my lights were on or not. That is why I put the 3/8 square of black tape centered on the sensor. It works exactly when I would turn the lights on or off myself. It is also unobtrusive.