Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #345 on: September 22, 2019, 05:14:59 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
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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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #346 on: September 23, 2019, 12:20:51 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: GE101R 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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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #347 on: September 23, 2019, 12:40:50 PM » Author: suzukir122
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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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #348 on: September 26, 2019, 11:55:22 PM » Author: RyanF40T12
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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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #349 on: September 26, 2019, 11:56:25 PM » Author: RyanF40T12
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #350 on: September 27, 2019, 12:34:40 AM » Author: suzukir122
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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2. Weightlifting/staying extremely athletic
3. Severe Thunderstorms of all kinds
4. Food and drinks. So gimme them bbq ribs
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #352 on: September 29, 2019, 11:12:26 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
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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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #353 on: October 01, 2019, 12:23:37 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
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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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #359 on: October 14, 2019, 08:53:08 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
My mother had a table-lamp that the socket got got broken on. I gave it a new socket today.
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