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Yesterday... Put up some Christmas lights...so as planned I started a couple weeks earlier than I normally would. Also did some more testing with light controllers mentioned in an earlier post, and was able to get some activity out of them..
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It's still 95 degrees here. I don't believe I'd even beable to think about the Christmas lights if it was that hot here (plus there's no way you could crawl around on the roof) .LOL. it was around 70, in the afternoon when I was at a local park, it cooled off & felt quite fall-ish. ------------ Today, the next group of lights was prepared (but won't be going up til Friday at the earliest, but more likely Sunday. There's a lights meetup on Saturday that I'll probably go to...)
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Slight off topic... speaking of meet ups... it'd be so awesome if a lighting meet up took place near or around Dayton Ohio. I've been hoping for one for years, with getting to see the faces behind the names here on Lighting Gallery. Been on this site for over 9 years now.
Back on subject... currently still looking for self ballasted CMH Par38's on Ebay. I've found plenty of interesting ones, including from GE.
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Interests: 1. Motorcycles, Cars, Women, and Lighting (especially fluorescent) 2. Weightlifting/staying extremely athletic 3. Severe Thunderstorms of all kinds 4. Food and drinks. So gimme them bbq ribs Lighting has ALWAYS been a passion of mine. I consider everyone on here to be a friend
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Worked on a Pendant fixture in one of my chapels. 3 fixtures per pole. 3 36 watt PL tubes per fixture. 2 year old Philips ballast failure. Replaced with a Sylvania/Osram ballast.
CFL can lights way up high, 2 32 watt CFL tubes per can, will need a 40 ft ladder. maybe. We might just let them all burn out first. When this building was built in 2001, They didn't think things out very well. They installed about 9 Fluorescent fixtures up at the top as well, however- with a ladder, we can only service 3 of them. The other 6 have gone EoL, no way to balance a ladder up there without removing all of the bolted down chairs. so maybe someday down the road when the carpet gets replaced and the chairs are removed for that, and if I am still around, I'll install LED strips up there and hope they last.
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Annnnddddd... more Advance Centium ballast failures. lol! I thought about purchasing another Philips Advance F40T12 R.S electronic ballast recently, but looks like that's not going to happen. The one I had served me well before I installed it into a friends light fixture, but seeing how these ballasts have failed within a short time frame has completely changed my mind. Especially those Instant Start centium ballasts.
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Interests: 1. Motorcycles, Cars, Women, and Lighting (especially fluorescent) 2. Weightlifting/staying extremely athletic 3. Severe Thunderstorms of all kinds 4. Food and drinks. So gimme them bbq ribs Lighting has ALWAYS been a passion of mine. I consider everyone on here to be a friend
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Slight off topic... speaking of meet ups... it'd be so awesome if a lighting meet up took place near or around Dayton Ohio. I've been hoping for one for years, with getting to see the faces behind the names here on Lighting Gallery. Been on this site for over 9 years now.
I don't see how meeting up with fellow lighting nutters enthusiasts to talk about lights can be thought about as off topic.!
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Yesterday.. Went to a lights meetup in the morning. Put up some Christmas lights in the afternoon.
No plans for anything light-related today.
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Yesterday.. Picked up a 'Raspberry Pi Zero WH', eventually plan to install 'LightShow Pi' software on it & connect to a SSR board, then it can flash lights to music...or maybe if it supports it I'll go with a P-10 panel & have it display a graph of the music.
Not light related, but in the evening I installed 'Pi-Hole' on a Raspberry Pi 3a that I already had. Don't have it ready to go yet, but when I do that one'll be going on my network .lol.
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Two things, we took delivery of our new 135W SOX lamp which will be our Lamp of the Day Also we have used the contacts out a regular 2 pin BC holder to repair a B22d-3 one.
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Built up the ballast board for our 18W mini SOX lamp
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We cut the broken photocell open so that Ria could solder a jumper wire in to bypass it.
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My mother had a table-lamp that the socket got got broken on. I gave it a new socket today.
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