@Burrito — I'm glad. I'll pack up the light and send you a shipping quote sometime in the near future.

Yes, I'd still want to get that LSI canopy light. Also, Maxim, the wire arrived!

So, a continuation of this thread......

Yes, I am still downsizing. My parents are officially filing for divorce this week, and the house is expected to be sold by the end of May/early June, right around my graduation (logistically, keeping the house does not work).

So @Burrito — let me know if you still want that LSI canopy light. I can send it to you.

@HomeBrewLamps — I have a used Regent NH-2402 I can send you. The NOS one is going into safekeeping at my friend's place in upstate NY. Otherwise it will be scrapped.

Lamps? I plan to keep my entire HID collection intact.

My dad is staying local, and he is trying to find a house within 25/30min from home, probably slightly more upstate/rural than our current home (as he has a limited budget from divorce settlement, and one's money goes further the more rural you go, and there is plenty of rural areas even within this county), so in that regard, I will be fine. My remaining stuff will be carefully loaded into a PODS moving/storage container, and then delivered to wherever my dad's new residence will be. I advised him to find a place with a garage/basement, if possible.

My mom, however, plans to move to Florida. So, logically, getting any of my lighting stuff down the east coast is, quite frankly, unrealistic. So whatever I am officially taking with me will likely go over to my dad's place. And again, I will likely not have an "equivalent" amount of room in the new place, so some stuff will have to go.

It looks really lovely there! A very nice spot for it

CWA

And at dusk

At an antique store there's a bunch of old and very old highbay fixtures. Does anyone know what brand/model/year these are, and which lamps they would've probably been fitted with?

They are up high on a shelf so i cannot just ask the staff for all the details.

That sounds lovely! And yes indeed, they're surprisingly efficient, and to our eyes they appear incredibly bright! I personally would absolutely love if one of my neighbors had a SOX light - I'd enjoy it!

I put up my SOX 18w wallpack in my tiny backyard.

Turns out those things actually are pretty damn bright. Definitely gonna attract attention. I've had it lit indoors on occasion but somehow to the eye it didn't look particularly powerful, but outside in the dark it's just a sea of yellow, brighter than the cone top public street lights which are pretty dim here because you don't want those to shine into your bedroom window either.

I'm gonna make a little shroud for it so it doesn't shine into the houses opposite mine.

The principal solution is to not "optimize" the lamps by reducing the heatsink size and number of chips in a lamp of the same power rating