Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #15 on: July 26, 2026, 07:23:28 PM » Author: LightsoftheWest
@Maxim - That's exactly what I want to do with my mechanical engineering degree once I finish college. Working for Acuity Brands or maybe some smaller manufacturer like Evluma. All of Evluma's R&D is local to me at home, but all of their manufacturing is in Hermosillo, Mexico. But you'd be correct in that most American manufacturing is located either in the Midwest or in the South.
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #16 on: July 26, 2026, 09:49:24 PM » Author: Maxim
Interesting... down the same path, eh?  What started off as a harmless little hobby in the early spring of my freshman year in high school...
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #17 on: July 26, 2026, 11:14:05 PM » Author: Omnilight37
@Maxim Very nice! What do you hope to innovate?
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #18 on: July 26, 2026, 11:15:13 PM » Author: Omnilight37
@Econolite03 Interesting, what do you hope to do in Civil engineering?
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #19 on: July 26, 2026, 11:17:32 PM » Author: Omnilight37
@LightsoftheWest  I'm curious, since you specialize so much in North American lighting, what's your favorite fixture of all time? Also, how do you know your stuff so well? I asked you a question about a post top luminaire and you instantly identified it as an ANP LF0962- how do you identify it so precisely and accurately?
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #20 on: July 27, 2026, 12:23:24 AM » Author: Maxim
Quote from: Omnilight37 on July 26, 2026, 11:14:05 PM @Maxim Very nice! What do you hope to innovate? Probably their lighting fixture division in some meaningful way. Likely as a manufacturing engineer, or otherwise a design engineer for new-release products. Not certain quite yet.
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #21 on: July 27, 2026, 02:36:28 AM » Author: Econolite03
Quote from: Omnilight37 on July 26, 2026, 11:15:13 PM @Econolite03 Interesting, what do you hope to do in Civil engineering? Public works projects, such as streets/highways.
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #22 on: July 27, 2026, 09:45:01 PM » Author: LightsoftheWest
Quote from: Omnilight37 on July 26, 2026, 11:17:32 PM @LightsoftheWest  I'm curious, since you specialize so much in North American lighting, what's your favorite fixture of all time? Also, how do you know your stuff so well? I asked you a question about a post top luminaire and you instantly identified it as an ANP LF0962- how do you identify it so precisely and accurately? That's a hard question. The NLS Lighting NV Series and the Sterner Lighting Executive are definitely my top two favorites. I comb the internet for interesting looking catalogs and brochures and save what I can find to my hard drive; Scribd is my #1 resource for vintage luminaire catalogs, though. Sometimes I look around the area for other luminaires to see whether or not they're the same brand; that's one of my strategies for identifying unknown fixtures. As a guide, I've made a list of outdoor luminaire manufacturers for the North American market in this thread.
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #23 on: July 28, 2026, 07:19:59 PM » Author: Omnilight37
Quote from: Maxim on July 27, 2026, 12:23:24 AM Probably their lighting fixture division in some meaningful way. Likely as a manufacturing engineer, or otherwise a design engineer for new-release products. Not certain quite yet.     I plan to perform significant R&D into designing the next generation of LED cobra heads which act as a counter balance to planned obsolescence in the modern lighting industry. I have a vision of creating LED cobra heads that can have diode swap replacement on a single fixture for tens of decades. Just like on a GE M-400 you swap Lucaloxes out every few years but you keep the fixture for decades, I hope to design LED cobra heads that last for centuries but their diode replacements will be required every 20 years. However, the future may not be LED.
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #24 on: July 28, 2026, 07:36:23 PM » Author: Omnilight37
Quote from: LightsoftheWest on July 27, 2026, 09:45:01 PM That's a hard question. The NLS Lighting NV Series and the Sterner Lighting Executive are definitely my top two favorites. I comb the internet for interesting looking catalogs and brochures and save what I can find to my hard drive; Scribd is my #1 resource for vintage luminaire catalogs, though. Sometimes I look around the area for other luminaires to see whether or not they're the same brand; that's one of my strategies for identifying unknown fixtures. As a guide, I've made a list of outdoor luminaire manufacturers for the North American market in this thread.  That's a nice cool and sharp selection you got there! The Lithonia DSX2 is definitely my favorite LED parking lot luminaire, I even nicknamed it 'Friction'. As a night time driver, the Holophane HMAO LED III definitely makes me feel the safest on the road. I also love the Gardco Gullwing G18, the Lithonia KAD Contour and the Spaulding Cimarron as my top three picks for old school HID shoeboxes.
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #25 on: July 28, 2026, 07:58:12 PM » Author: Maxim
@Omnilight37 — I get exactly what you are going for. Also- the DSX2 is nice, but in my opinion, the Signify/GARDCO EcoForm or PureForm are the best-looking LED area lights.
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #26 on: July 28, 2026, 10:38:48 PM » Author: LightsoftheWest
I also really like the look of the U.S. Architectural Lighting Razar.
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	Re: Does Anybody Else Here Anthropomorphize Lights? « Reply #28 on: August 02, 2026, 06:15:34 PM » Author: Omnilight37
@joseph_125  Interesting! Do you know why Acuity manufactures less in Canada nowdays?
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