Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #375 on: October 27, 2019, 11:19:38 PM » Author: CEB1993
I replaced an LED bulb in my bedroom with one of my French-made 100 watt Sylvanias. I felt like having more light and now that the weather is turning cooler, incandescents make a small difference inside by heating the room.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #376 on: October 28, 2019, 12:27:59 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
2 little things: * Put up 1 more set of orange lights  for Halloween * Worked on converting a set of Christmas lights from incandescent to LED
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #377 on: October 30, 2019, 02:08:41 AM » Author: RyanF40T12
Changed out a 16 year old failed Triad T8 ballast.  Also noted now many LED signs and a few fixtures are not liking these single digit temps <evil grin>
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #378 on: October 30, 2019, 08:44:22 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: RyanF40T12 Changed out a 16 year old failed Triad T8 ballast.  Also noted now many LED signs and a few fixtures are not liking these single digit temps <evil grin>  Quite good getting 16 years out of an electronic ballast. LOL on the LED signs not working right in that cold (can't blame the things..I wouldn't work right when  it gets that f'ing cold) ------------- Today's little bit of lighting related do'ings... More work on converting Christmas lights to LED. (I now have 2 of 3 sets done (just need to add resistors when they arrive.))
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #379 on: October 31, 2019, 07:20:04 AM » Author: suzukir122
@RyanF40T12, what's up with the LED signs and fixtures? Is it the gear inside the fixtures failing, or the actual LED's themselves? I've always thought LED's could handle the cold.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #382 on: November 01, 2019, 12:47:25 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: suzukir122 @RyanF40T12, what's up with the LED signs and fixtures? Is it the gear inside the fixtures failing, or the actual LED's themselves? I've always thought LED's could handle the cold. Allot of those signs are made up of a bunch of smaller individual 'panels'(or boards)...look closely & you can usually tell where some have been replaced because the colors don't quite match. I've seen something similar to those individual panels used in signs up close - some of the guys who go to the Christmas-light meetups here use them in their displays...In  this case its whats called a "P10-Panel" (10mm spacing between the LEDs). Each panel has IC chips built in for control purposes - you send data telling it which LEDs to light/what color/brightness/etc, and it does it (they also have a 'data out' to  pass data along to another panel if you're connecting multiple together  to form a larger 'sign' (basically so it all acts as if its a single unit)) (really cool stuff btw!) I have a feeling its the 'electronics part' that doesn't like cold, not the LEDs
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #383 on: November 01, 2019, 08:18:15 AM » Author: suzukir122
@Xmaslightguy, seems as if the electronics also don't like the summer heat as well. Multiple lighting fails at several Speedways near me. Especially the ones lighting outside the main portion of the store, where the HO lamps use to be.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #388 on: November 11, 2019, 10:52:24 AM » Author: suzukir122
@Mandolin Girl, are those tungsten filament based mercury lamps? (Of course I'm willing to bet they are) If not, I've never heard of literal self ballasted mercury lamps before. That would be AWESOME if those existed. My move regarding lighting... I moved one of my Sadelite desk lamps into my living room, on my 8 foot table. It's on the side of the living room my EOL MH track light, and my EOL Par38 MH once illuminated. So my living room is bright once again, but it's a temporary change. I'll be moving that Sadelite desk lamp back into my bedroom with the others before the big move out of this apartment.
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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