Re: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #47 on: January 31, 2020, 02:46:43 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Funny story from my days living at home, oddly enough mum and dad didn’t mind me running, (among others) a 22000 lumen 135watt SOX in my bedroom!! , they called me a ‘nutty professor’ who locked himself away in his -lab-!, but I started to get a reputation from the neighbouring houses behind us....... At the time mum worked behind the bar at the local sports and social club, and people who lived in these houses were always asking her, “what exactly is going on in your lads room at night”!!!
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	Re: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #48 on: February 16, 2020, 06:26:29 AM » Author: LightsDelight
I sort of hide it as in I don't really tell people about it but if you went to my house you'd find out. I don't mention it to my mates at school as I am in year 10 (15-16yo) and people that age are brutal so I just hide it to fit in. They aren't really my mates although one or two are. My real mates know about it tho as they are all people I met on a lighting page
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	Re: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #49 on: February 16, 2020, 07:30:48 AM » Author: suzukir122
If you're only 16 years old @LightsDelight, the good news is that as time goes on, you will quickly see that they will begin to become mature. *Normally* this is the case lol
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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: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #50 on: March 06, 2020, 09:24:18 PM » Author: A2ZAlarms
Everything is in service in the barn. Most shop lights are on chains above workbenches and most ceiling lights are recessed pl-l parabolic fixtures. There are also random louvred and half pipe fixtures. If people don’t like fluorescent and  HPS lighting they can leave, door is down the main hallway and to the right. It’s a free country.
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	Re: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #52 on: March 07, 2020, 08:02:42 AM » Author: Cole D.
One of my friends, knows about it, but that's about it. I don't talk about it other than with a family otherwise, and all of my lamps, sockets and fixtures are packed in boxes, out of sight.
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Collect vintage incandescent and fluorescent fixtures. Also like HID lighting and streetlights.

	Re: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #53 on: March 07, 2020, 08:04:55 AM » Author: LightsDelight
Quote from: Cole D. on March 07, 2020, 08:02:42 AM One of my friends, knows about it, but that's about it. I don't talk about it other than with a family otherwise, and all of my lamps, sockets and fixtures are packed in boxes, out of sight. Same here. I don't go around telling people but if people see me with it I tell them. Most of my friends I have met through lighting anyway so no hiding it from them
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	Re: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #54 on: February 09, 2021, 02:05:27 AM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
Whenever I invite friends to my apartment, I hide my collection in my bedroom but have other modified lights installed throughout other rooms such as a SOX table lamp and a mercury vapor table lamp in my living room and also a DIY mercury vapor fixture that is shaped like a man.
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.

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	Re: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #58 on: February 12, 2021, 01:24:39 AM » Author: AngryHorse
I don’t invite people over period!, although this is nothing to do with lighting, and more to do with having an antisocial German Shepherd and a psychotic cat!
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	Re: Do you hide your lamp related stuff from other people? « Reply #59 on: February 12, 2021, 01:26:20 AM » Author: suzukir122
Anyone that is over at my apartment is forced to see my lighting, as soon as I flip the switch. Same with my bike garage. If you walk in my apartment, you're gonna see me fire up all four of my Rapid Start ballasted Sadelite desk lamps. If you walk in my bike garage, you're gonna see me fire up 3 Par38 Metal Halides. So yeah, I don't hide my lighting. I proudly put them to use if I've got friends over.
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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