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LOA Security Light Installed
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A cheap 90s LOA PL13 jar light a neighbor found while cleaning their garage and gave to me. I ended up installing it to light my driveway and front porch, as you can see here. Pretty bright for only 13w and runs well all night on my off-grid power system (inverter & 3-12v 8-D lead-acid batteries).
If you look closely you'll notice I fudged the mounting job on this. I was originally going to put a different fixture here, but that one required a standard 4" round ceiling box, which I didn't have, so instead I drilled a 1/4" hole in the T-111 plywood siding, passed the wires through, mounted the fixture using a single hex roofing screw, then put a single-gang junction box on the backside with a 2-prond lamp cord connecting it to power. I was originally doing that as a temporary setup but may leave it that way since I can choose which outlets I plug it into (which generator, and only on when that generator is running, or 24/7 on inverter power and batteries.)
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Technically, an electronic PL lamp might also be able to run on a trigger start ballast, albeit finicky. The preheat ones can only run on preheat for obvious reasons but the electronic ones don't have shunted pins, they're actually designed for programmed start (though they work on IS too).