Tapered Arm on the Deck!

Featuring the M-250A2 FCO! While these tapered arms around here were not originally installed with these fixtures, some M-250A2s did occasionally end up on these tapered arms as spot replacements. The M-250A2s look awesome on these tapered arms IMO. The boxy fixture matches the "boxy" arm.

Originally, this tapered arm almost definitely had a 100W MV, most likely an M-250A or M-250R1. I have two of these now. When I get my own house, I'll probably mount my M-250A on one and a M-250R1 or OV-15 on the other, unless I decide to mount a 400W MV light on it. Hopefully I'll come across more of these tapered arms since I love 'em. Very well made and rock solid. I've seen these holding up M-1000s without breaking a sweat. I could probably do pull-ups on this thing but I don't want to give the neighbors anything to laugh at lol.

And there's the shiny Unistyle hanging out on the shed with a Chinese Sylvania 175W MV lamp. Got that beauty from Tony almost a year ago in a trade. It's my best-sealed light so I figured it can keep the damn wasps out lol. I made a homemade 1-1/4" pest guard out of some craft foam and glued it in place to really seal the heck out of the light.

On another note, my neighbors moved away (no more camper behind our sheds). The new owners haven't moved in yet. Not sure why since the house doesn't need much work. Anyway, I plugged in the Unistyle to see how bad the light trespass is and lights more of their yard than it does mine lol. So I will have to either stick an FCO glass in (which I don't want to do) or made some kind of internal glare shield to try and limit the light going over the fence. I could install a dimmed out lamp and/or a yellowed refractor but I want to leave the original glass in place and don't want to reduce the light going into my yard. Kind of my own fault since I installed the light practically right on the property line (about 10ft away) but it was the only place to put it. I don't want to put it on my shed.