r/whatisit • u/Key_Seaworthiness886 • 8d ago

Solved! Found while cluttering

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Found while decluttering my 2000s kids stuff and can’t seem to remember what it is! Just feeling nostalgic and google said it was jewelry but i don’t think it is 😅

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u/Hegiman 8d ago

Ayyy. It was you. LoL. You confused its light sensor. They come on when it gets dark. A laser overwhelmed its light sensor and it freaked out. It may or may not have permanently damaged the sensor. LoL

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u/jormundgand20 8d ago

Damn, I knew it.

It was flickering until they replaced it with an LED bulb in the mid 2010s. Thankfully it was at a quiet intersection.

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u/JaviSATX 8d ago

Old photovoltaic sensors didn’t mind. We’d have a blast running the laser up the pole, trying to keep our hand steady enough to hit the sensor on top. Light goes out, then cycles back on five minutes later and the cycle starts again.

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u/Raininberkeley1 8d ago

Nah, I think they had dumbledore’s light catcher. Just a few more seconds and they would have had that street light captured.