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LOA Security Light Installed
A cheap 90s LOA PL13 jar light a neighbor found while cleaning their garage and gave to me. I ended up installing it to light my driveway and front porch, as you can see here. Pretty bright for only 13w and runs well all night on my off-grid power system (inverter & 3-12v 8-D lead-acid batteries).

If you look closely you'll notice I fudged the mounting job on this.  I was originally going to put a different fixture here, but that one required a standard 4" round ceiling box, which I didn't have, so instead I drilled a 1/4" hole in the T-111 plywood siding, passed the wires through, mounted the fixture using a single hex roofing screw, then put a single-gang junction box on the backside with a 2-prond lamp cord connecting it to power.  I was originally doing that as a temporary setup but may leave it that way since I can choose which outlets I plug it into (which generator, and only on when that generator is running, or 24/7 on inverter power and batteries.) 
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LOA Security Light Installed

A cheap 90s LOA PL13 jar light a neighbor found while cleaning their garage and gave to me. I ended up installing it to light my driveway and front porch, as you can see here. Pretty bright for only 13w and runs well all night on my off-grid power system (inverter & 3-12v 8-D lead-acid batteries).

If you look closely you'll notice I fudged the mounting job on this. I was originally going to put a different fixture here, but that one required a standard 4" round ceiling box, which I didn't have, so instead I drilled a 1/4" hole in the T-111 plywood siding, passed the wires through, mounted the fixture using a single hex roofing screw, then put a single-gang junction box on the backside with a 2-prond lamp cord connecting it to power. I was originally doing that as a temporary setup but may leave it that way since I can choose which outlets I plug it into (which generator, and only on when that generator is running, or 24/7 on inverter power and batteries.)

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Filename:2015-05-30_21_40_05.jpg
Album name:GEsoftwhite100watts / florescent bulbs
Keywords:Lit_Lighting
Company and Date Manufactured:LOA, 1990s
Wattage:13w
Lamp Type:Preheat PL-S compact fluorescent
Filesize:177 KiB
Date added:Jun 03, 2015
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DateTime Original:2015:05:30 21:40:05
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Model:SM-T230NU
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streetlight98   [Jun 03, 2015 at 07:14 PM]
Ah thank for the pic. I actually had a Cooper/Regent PL13 jar light just like this. It was a Lowe's floor model so it didn't come with the mounting hardware and the PC was a dayburner. The lamp was a legit electronic PL13 though. I still have the lamp (6500K) and jar diffuser, which screws on. It was a nice light. I don't remember why I tossed it.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Jun 03, 2015 at 11:39 PM]
Neat! I wish I had a 6500K lamp for this though!
streetlight98   [Jun 04, 2015 at 01:19 AM]
Yeah 6500K PLs are nice. Unfortunately it's a 4-pin lamp so I can't use it in a standard preheat PL adapter, though I could use alligator clips and set it up that way if I wanted. I kept the lamp only because it was daylight lol. You can buy preheat PLs in any color temperature online, but locally they seem to only come in /WW.

Technically, an electronic PL lamp might also be able to run on a trigger start ballast, albeit finicky. The preheat ones can only run on preheat for obvious reasons but the electronic ones don't have shunted pins, they're actually designed for programmed start (though they work on IS too).
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Jun 05, 2015 at 03:37 AM]
Yeah interesting about the trigger start thing!

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