Tips on security lighting and cameras
Security lightning helps secure your home
Security lighting and cameras are a great way to protect your Fort Mill home, because the one thing that deters crime more than anything else is the dead certainty of getting caught. Burglars and vandals don’t go out after dark because it makes them feel cool — they do it because there are fewer people watching and less light to see by.
Even without cameras, a house lit by security lighting is a much more forbidding target than one that just has a few small lights near the door, or that depends on the illumination of the nearest streetlight. Not to be too cynical about it, but your house doesn’t need to be impregnable — it just needs to be the least vulnerable-looking house on the street.
The best place for lights and cameras
If you want to take the full lights-camera-there-better-not-be-any-action approach, look for experts in home security and electrical installation to examine your property and determine the best places for security lighting and cameras. The lights should be installed high enough to keep them out of reach of vandals, and should be pointed away from your house. Many relatively weak lights are better than a few very bright ones — they provide redundancy, don’t create glare and eliminate those pools of shadow that criminals love to hide in.
The cameras should have low-light and night-vision capability — even the best security lighting is no substitute for daylight. Motion-activated cameras with zoom and pan capabilities are best. That way, they don’t have to stay on all the time, and can focus on anything important. It’s better if the cameras have HD capacity, in case the police really do need to identify somebody in the shot.
Both the lighting and the cameras should be tough enough to withstand vandalism, as well as inclement weather — and, just in case the vandals are trying harder than usual, there should be some overlap in the cameras’ field of vision, so that any attack on one will be caught by the others. The wiring should also be inaccessible.
Security lighting services in Fort Mill
Pyramid Electric Service are electrical contractors licensed in North and South Carolina and serving the greater Charlotte area, including Charlotte, Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Indian Land, Marvin, Weddington, Matthews and Waxhaw. We offer a range of interior and exterior lighting services with first-rate products, professional materials and expert installation and maintenance by master electricians. Expertise.com rated us one of the top 25 electrical contractors in the Charlotte area. We offer emergency service 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Call the electricians you can trust. We have been serving York, Lancaster, Mecklenburg and Union Counties since 1963.