My latest creation. I wired up the 100w potted MH ballast for 125w mercury lamps (100w lamps will work in a pinch but they are overdriven on this ballast). The cover is a upside down range outlet junction box with the socket mounted in out of the knockouts. I guess to be a real table lamp, it needs a shade...maybe a spare yardlight bucket?
Lamp is a Philips HPL-N 125w merc, looks almost identical to a /DX when lit up.
Very cool! Would a regular lamp shade work or would that be a fire hazard? I'm thinking you could make a floor lamp like this, but the ballast would need to be at the base otherwise it'd be too top-heavy.
Is that a Westy Silverliner ad I see in the background on the wall? And what wattage/phosphor is that Lifeguard lamp?
It'd probably be a fire hazard unless the shade was from a 150w+ rated lamp. A floor lamp would be pretty easy but you'll need to widen the base too to make it more stable.
You'll have to guess for the Lifeguard and the Ad...
nope that light is the OV-15 (the OV-25's litte brother). the OV-15 has a trapaziod shaped lens while the OV-25 has a rounded lens. I personally prefer the OV-15...
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Is that a Westy Silverliner ad I see in the background on the wall? And what wattage/phosphor is that Lifeguard lamp?
You'll have to guess for the Lifeguard and the Ad...