Hi

I am not sure I am posting in the correct place! I was looking for a forum that could advise on these 2 things:

1) Our Edinburgh tenement stair lights (5 lights with 2 florescent bulbs each) have been upgraded to 5 LED ones instead. There was an option to keep the original florescent lights but we chose to upgrade, while getting issue (2) sorted below. However the new LED lights are VERY bright and causing a lot of glare (very uncomfortable to look at). Would be better switching back to the older florescent ones or is there more appropriate kind of light and/or diffuser which would be more suited to stair lights?

2) 4 of the lights are on a timer (other 1 is on permanently) which switches on in the evening and off again in the morning. The timer, I believe, is 50 years and looks to be some kind of electrical/mechanical rotary switch which you can adjust to alter the switching on time. However I don't think we can alter the LENGTH of time it stays on, just the start time for a specific period (about 14 hours just now I think). The problem is - there is not enough ON time to avoid periods of darkness in the winter (dark for about 2 hours in January). My question is - can we fix this? It has not been a problem in over 20 years but somehow it is a problem now. We have been advised to get a digital timer but can we keep the original one, if its fixable?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Thank you

Iain Millar