Nice.

Thanks

BTW, just hit the PC on a cement floor and you can remove the tape.

Every lighting nut needs a 175w MV yardlight or NEMA head indoors!

I want to mount a light indoors but I'm not even gonna ask...

And it now has a blue 17 NEMA tag on it too.

Don't mount it, stick it on a homemade pole like Aaron did...I've considered making a yardblaster table or floor lamp and maybe will if I get an extra one that isn't in service outside like my only one is...
Yeah, your parents might not like you screwing a HID light into drywall in their house...

Mike: Yeah just make sure you have a wide enough weighted base or else its kinda a tip over hazard and use the brackets to secure the base plate to the pole or 4x4 board, funny how i wasn't allowed to install the light into the wall yet they didn't mind me putting in a wraparound on the ceiling and a 400W MH fixture in the garge with a bunch of fluorescent fixtures through drywall into studs

@ Andy; my mom wouldn't let me do that either. She just doesn't want to see the lights. If it's out of sight, she's fine with it but if it's in plain sight it's an issue. Even in my own bedroom.

@ Aaron; yeah my parents don't mind me installing fluorescents either. I've never installed one in a finished room though since I don't own a stud-finder. I doubt my parents would allow me to install a fluorescent light in my room though. My dad doesn't mind the lights, he just doesn't like the holes in the ceiling or wall. That's why it's always a pain when my mom wants to hang another picture fram on the wall. My mom on the other hand doesn't want to see street lights peroid and fluorescent lights aren't allowed upstairs (which i don't fully understand, seeing how our closet lights are F20T12/TS (mine converted to preheat).

Heh, I installed lights all over my over my room...in fact my room lights are fluorescent.

I can't sleep without my ceiling fan on to drown out all the outside noise and I'd have to run cables to mount lights anywhere else.

Ahh, I see...I guess wiremold is your friend then.

Am I the only one with a F40T12 shoplight over my computer desk? (with a .8A ballast too).
I just had an idea...why not put some noisy HID light on a timer to wake you up in the morning? Someone should try that!

I've done that before, I used a 150w HPS connected to a timer to wake me up a couple years ago.

How well did it work? For me it's be a 400w MH but I think that would irritate my Dad...and possibly the neighbors...

@ Joe; i wish i knew what you meant my wiremold.

@ Andy; well i'm pretty sure my grandpa is the only one in the state (hell maybe the WORLD) that has a F90T17 desk light!

BTW, I swapped the sylvanias and the GEs between the RS and PH shoplights. The Sylvanias flicker int he preheat one too. I guess I got a bad pair since the other sylvanias i installed at my cousins' grandmothers garage work fine w/o any flicker. Needless to say, I switched the sylvanias and GEs back to their original spots, the second GE lamp going back in the corner as a spare. Now that I know it's not the RS ballast causing the flickering i want to keep it when i move out lol. I've noticed even after all this time the T12s have NO signs of end blackening while I was burning through T8s like crazy before.

Were you using T8s on the T12 ballast at one point?

no i meant the old 2X 17W wrap lights that used to be used.

Oh, yeah I would imagine that would eat modern lamps like Altos...what brand WERE those lamps you were using?

17w ge ecolux lamps. The were TERRIBLE! The GE Eco Lux SP35 F40T12 lamps are pretty good though!