If you've seen any of my posts you'll see various scrounged things in use. Primarily for supplemental lighting. I've got an old utility/drop light with the hood removed and a splitter with two cfl bulbs. I shortened a 3-light stand and use cfl and room type led bulbs up tight to sides after pulling them down and out. I use it to clip my small fan to, etc. I had free time to think yesterday and that is not always a good thing. In my 3x3 I basically have everything in its own quadrant and one quad has the pole light and fan. My solo entry requires a quad for the torture chamber so the light is out later today. However, when I was looking for a cfl with a different K rating I stumbled upon two old fashioned 100 watt incandescent flood lights (amazing what we keep "just in case"). I replaced them with these: Ecosmart 2-pack of PAR38 LED floodlights 90w equivalent (13w actual). Well, there is an issue with the socket in that the screw-in part is too short to make contact. I tried the 100w bulb on Han Solo and burnt a bit. Probably actual heat rather than light. So I swapped the old back into the fixture I know they work in and now have these two bulbs and they are in fact bright AF!
If I rig up the two of them as kind of COBish I can definitely focus more on the area now served by the light pole. I'm going to move some stuff around this afternoon and I hope I'm putting enough REAL watts in and not EQUIVALENT watts. Anyone used floodlights?
If I rig up the two of them as kind of COBish I can definitely focus more on the area now served by the light pole. I'm going to move some stuff around this afternoon and I hope I'm putting enough REAL watts in and not EQUIVALENT watts. Anyone used floodlights?
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