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I have this on the front, with an 18watt LPS lamp in, and this at the back of the house with a 250watt HPS lamp in.
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Welcom to OBLIVION ! B+M INTAMIN Gerstlauer GCI Longest serving LED at home: 59,462 hrs @ 7/4/25
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I dont have any in full time work, as there is enough light coming from outside. When i actually need light, it can be anything from a LED to 400W MH depending on what i need at the moment
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Depends on the time of year...I've got 4 1-lamp 4-foot fluorescents - all with electronic ballasts (for energy saving and reliable starting in freezing cold), most of the year I only run 2 of them (from midnight til morning), but for late November til Mid January I use all 4 fixtures
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ThunderStorms/Lightning/Tornados are meant to be hunted down & watched...not hidden from in the basement!
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This is my security light, a Cooper Vanguard III with a coated 175W MV and a Magnetek H39 only ballast.
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I use a 35w HPS tallpack on the side and a 100w MV patio light in the back.
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Here the electricity is pretty expensive, so people use either no lights or (more recently) controlled by motion detectors, in most cases incandescents.
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No more selfballasted c***
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65w fluorex plastic junker till i rehab the old ge metal and glass unit. was 100w mv.bulb was real tired and ballast buzzing loudly.will have 2x 42w plug in cfl when i am done. the flourex was free and had 2 bad caps keeping it out.got two free new bulbs but i doubt it will live to use them up.
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My hostel illuminates outside by four globes with CFLs and incandescents (Only two working, and the two working have Eurolux CFLs). The back of my hostel illuminated by 2x36W T8 preheat/switchstart fixture, which usually isn't in use. My father home enterance uses fixture that have an energy saving CFL. My mother home enterance uses street number and name backlit sign that uses 2-pin PL-S 11W with preheat/switchstart magnetic ballast. It had a photocell in the past, but it was distroyed, because of the switch, and currently it is only manual switched, and usually no in use.
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I"m don't speak English well, and rely on online translating to write in this site. Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.
I only working with the international date format (dd.mm.yyyy).
I lives in Israel, which is a 220-240V, 50hz country.
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I have a  175 watt MV NEMA with standard refractor in the yard. I'll have to take a picture of it someday. Its been up there on the pole longer than I've been around and I've always just taken it for granted. Never thought about it being something interesting until recently. I've grown up with mercury, so until recently, just figured it was the norm for outdoor lighting.
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I run a Nordex Astra 1 with photocell on a 15ft pole in the back yard, using an Eye 80W clear mercury vapour lamp. It's the only clear MV lamp I know of in use for outdoor lighting here, I've never seen another clear MV lamp running in the UK! There must be others surely! The original coated bulb was causing the nearby tree to extend its branches towards the light and also encouraging the weeds ...  BG
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Say NO to DICTATORSHIP in the form of bulb/tube/ballast bans !!
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At the moment, an incandescent on an old brass swan neck. But we live directly across from a railway station, so we don't need much in the way of 'extra lights' I intend to install my Thorn 2 x 20 Stradalux's around the house, but I need to make the brackets for them!
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Why HID lamps are so popular in household use in North America, compared to the rest of the world!?!? Almost all of the american LG members, almost always uses HID lanterns for security lighting at their homes (Without the relationship to them being lighting collectors), what isn't exists in the rest of the world. In Israel, security lighting, is done either by incandescent, SBMV and now CFLs globe lanterns, fluorescent battens or halogen floodlights with motion detectors, which gradually being replaced by CFL floodlights, because all double ended halogen lamps were banned in Israel. MH floodlights as a security lighting at the enterance of residential buildings, appeared only recently, after the ban of the incandescent and halogen lamps over 60W.
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I"m don't speak English well, and rely on online translating to write in this site. Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.
I only working with the international date format (dd.mm.yyyy).
I lives in Israel, which is a 220-240V, 50hz country.
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Why HID lamps are so popular in household use in North America, compared to the rest of the world!?!? Almost all of the american LG members, almost always uses HID lanterns for security lighting at their homes (Without the relationship to them being lighting collectors), what isn't exists in the rest of the world. In Israel, security lighting, is done either by incandescent, SBMV and now CFLs globe lanterns, fluorescent battens or halogen floodlights with motion detectors, which gradually being replaced by CFL floodlights, because all double ended halogen lamps were banned in Israel. MH floodlights as a security lighting at the enterance of residential buildings, appeared only recently, after the ban of the incandescent and halogen lamps over 60W.
HID security lights are not that popular here for security lighting in urban and suburban areas...I think you're exaggerating and generalizing about North America based on what you see here again. Remember that since this is a lighting site so members here would be more willing than the public to pay extra to install HID lighting. The only place where HID security lighting is somewhat popular are in rural areas. Most security lights here use incandescent, halogen, and CFL.
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Mercury vapor and metal halide lights are nearly ubiquitous as yard lights around here. NEMA heads and other similar bucket lights are everywhere. Nearly every farm seems to have one. Halogen and incandescent are common around homes and garages to provided localized lighting, sometimes on a motion sensor. I'm just starting to see some CFL floodlights, but they are rare (and for good reason, they seem to be poorly built and dim!).
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Yep i can confirm this about the CFL floods... Lately we also have LED floodlights using the same enclosures as halogens, but they are not too bright, but i think a lot better than the CFLs
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