Looking at the Yard from the Crescent Moon's Perspective
The view's not too shabby up here! I'm actually just standing on the deck here (which you probably figured out pretty quickly, LOL) but thought it was a nice shot capturing the crescent moon, my new shed, and the Crimefighter, which is dayburning in the background since there's no PC on it...
It's not running dusk-to-dawn. It was only dayburning for today so I could see it at night. It's off now. BTW that thing's an f-ing glarebomb (which I should have expected lol)
Yeah my M-250A2 FCO fits the bill perfectly for that actually! 50W HPS FCO! I also have 50W HPS drop lens (Cooper OVC) and I have my 70W HPS FCO M-250R2, which I also have a spare drop lens reflector for so I could have 70W drop lens too. HPS is el stinko for yard lighting though lol. Makes are already dead looking grass look even more appalling lol. We've had so little rain and there's no shade in my backyard so the grass just bakes in the sun all day. We have in-ground sprinklers but we only run them every-other day since it runs the water bill up too high (some places in RI have water bans where they can only water on odd or even days but we don't since we get our water directly from the Scituate Reservoir (pronounced "sit-CHOO-it" FYI). We had a week or so period where it exceeded 90 degrees every day so at that point we were running the sprinklers every day (they run from around 4AM to around 7AM. There's 7 different zones and each zone runs for a certain amount of time between 10 and 20 minutes).
With my second shed there, I could probably get away with a 1000 lumen incandescent over there where the crimefighter is, but the bees would invade the crescent moon before I could even finish wiring it up lol. The silver M-250R has proven to be very good at keeping the wasps out (in the spring time when they're small they can squeeze in there but by summer they're a little bigger and plus the silver fixture gets very hot (too hot to touch almost!) so they'd fry if they tried going in there. Any other light I've installed on that shed had gotten paper wasps inside there. They're one of the least aggressive wasps around here (similar to honey bees; they won't really bother you unless you threaten their nest or especially their larvae). Normally when I find a nest in the light, if I can, I open it up and try to get the next exposed and then I grab a broom and whack the nest out with the bristles of the broom and then make a beeline (no pun intended) to the opposite side of the yard. All the nests I've removed were smaller than pingpong balls so nothing too huge. It's usually max three wasps on the nest. If conditions are just right though, the nests can grow to the size of footballs. That takes years though and usually the reason for that is because they built a new nest on top of an existing abandoned nest. I guess they figure the guys from last year did alright so they just assume possession of the spot lol.
I haven't sold any yet. But I think mostly golf courses and commercial sites use it. If there's a dead/brown patch of grass, you'd use that product to instantly make it green. People pay a lot of money to live in these higher-end golf course communities. They expect the grass to be green.
Yeah they expect the grass to BE green, not PAINTED green! If I found out that the golf course I went to (assuming I'd ever golf, which I would never, unless you count mini golf, since golf is as fun as watching a pot of water boil IMO) had painted grass I'd have to reevaluate my life. I'd feel like my whole life was just a lie.
I thought it was bizarre too when I heard of it! I remember my response was something like "Yeah, what, just buy case quantities of Krylon?!" (Of course it's professionally done with some other product).
Bad link I guess but remember the slimline crashing down? That was the reason for pulling out the AstroTurf, all those tiny fragments of glass plus the phosphor dust. Two broken F96T12 lamps is actually a lot of glass!
One side says the company name (Wheeler) and the other side I think says BOSTON. The socket had the initials for the real company name WRCO (Wheeler Reflector Company, which was the actually name for these.) So it's really a "Wheeler Reflector Co" crescent moon fixture but everyone knows them as "Wheeler Boston" or "Boston Wheeler" lol.
This particular head is from the late 50s or early 60s (I think before the beehive head).
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With my second shed there, I could probably get away with a 1000 lumen incandescent over there where the crimefighter is, but the bees would invade the crescent moon before I could even finish wiring it up lol. The silver M-250R has proven to be very good at keeping the wasps out (in the spring time when they're small they can squeeze in there but by summer they're a little bigger and plus the silver fixture gets very hot (too hot to touch almost!) so they'd fry if they tried going in there. Any other light I've installed on that shed had gotten paper wasps inside there. They're one of the least aggressive wasps around here (similar to honey bees; they won't really bother you unless you threaten their nest or especially their larvae). Normally when I find a nest in the light, if I can, I open it up and try to get the next exposed and then I grab a broom and whack the nest out with the bristles of the broom and then make a beeline (no pun intended) to the opposite side of the yard. All the nests I've removed were smaller than pingpong balls so nothing too huge. It's usually max three wasps on the nest. If conditions are just right though, the nests can grow to the size of footballs. That takes years though and usually the reason for that is because they built a new nest on top of an existing abandoned nest. I guess they figure the guys from last year did alright so they just assume possession of the spot lol.
This particular head is from the late 50s or early 60s (I think before the beehive head).