My Beautiful 1987 GE M-250A2 FCO Installed

Here it is installed in the backyard on the deck. It's installed with its 250W MH/MV Powr/Door. Has a newer Sylvania 250W /DX MV lamp and the same old 1989 Ripely SunSwitch that I keep in use outside.

I haven't seen how bright it is at night and I probably won't get to until Friday or Saturday since I'm in bed by 8:30 or 9PM Sunday through Thursday since I have to get up at 4:30 in the morning for work Monday through Friday so it's still not fully dark when I hit the hay.

This would be REALLY bright with a 250W MH lamp. Same amount of lumens as 400W MV! I have a new 250W Sylvania metalarc and a very used Metalarc too. The former is as bright as a 400W MV with a warm color tone. The latter is around the same brightness as a 250W MV, just with better color rendering, and it's more of a cooler white like 5000K.

Anyway, If I ever use a 250W MH lamp in this, I'd install a drop glass lens since a thin 1/8" FCO glass probably wouldn't contain a lamp explosion. Plus I don't want the glass to shatter if the lamp does explode. A thick prismatic glass would probably have no problem containing a MH lamp explosion. A Plastic lens could contain the explosion but would certainly be melted by the hot shards of glass. Could honestly make an interesting effect though lol.