What room in your house do you use as your lighting laboratory? « on: December 24, 2020, 05:22:47 PM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
Does anyone have a specific room in their house that they specifically use as a laboratory for lighting experiments and for repairing/restoring fixtures and lamps?
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.

DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.

	Re: What room in your house do you use as your lighting laboratory? « Reply #2 on: December 25, 2020, 05:52:46 PM » Author: Bulbman256
I use my garage to shoot most of my photos and do random experiments out there. I store most of my bulbs in my closet and i take some of my photos in my room. I also mess around with lamps in there too, but don't tell my parents.
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Collecting light bulbs since 2012, a madman since birth.

	Re: What room in your house do you use as your lighting laboratory? « Reply #3 on: December 25, 2020, 06:43:18 PM » Author: HPS_250
I have a small sections of the garage. Not enough space for large lighting projects, but plenty of space for many containers of lamps and a few fixtures.
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I’ve always been interested in all kinds of lighting, mainly incandescent and HID, and especially all kinds of sodium lamps (HPS/LPS). I’ll tolerate LED but I’m not a fan of it.
I’m not proud to say that my city has Devolved to LED.

	Re: What room in your house do you use as your lighting laboratory? « Reply #5 on: December 25, 2020, 07:40:54 PM » Author: Fluorescent05
I use my dad's tool room for lighting, audio equipment repairs, and other electronics repairs because I have my workbench in there.
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I can't pretend a stranger is a long awaited friend. -Neil Peart

	Re: What room in your house do you use as your lighting laboratory? « Reply #6 on: December 26, 2020, 09:09:30 AM » Author: CreeRSW207
My basement is where the magic happens for me!
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Long live the Incandescent streetlights!
Power Company: Eversource
Startup Landscaping/LED retrofit business.

	Re: What room in your house do you use as your lighting laboratory? « Reply #9 on: December 27, 2020, 10:42:36 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
For some things: Say testing something like an old/vintage fixture/ballast/etc.. Or 'tests' such as not running lamps on ballasts they were designed for.. Or other weird experiments..  ...any of which might result in smoke, those all get done outside on the patio (for good reason!) For general testing (new lamps or ballasts as an example) that are unlikely to involve 'issues', those just happen in a spare bedroom.
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ThunderStorms/Lightning/Tornados are meant to be hunted down & watched...not hidden from in the basement!