I only use steel black pipe for street lights I don't think I will ever try that, The flood lights have to say work'n at all times. If there is a wiled fire they would make a very big difference because the fire department would set-up base in Mt. Prospect.
Mt. Prospect RI is a huge piece of land in RI mostly trees huge drop offs and ponds, I call it Mt. Prospect. It is close to Bryant university. My dads home is on it and about 50 others, We own 15 acres of it. We are over 600ft above sea level Way up there Lots of people take walks in Mt. Prospect. and get lost
Ah I see. Yeah I saw the Flickr picture you posted. Nice plot of land! I want a nice rural plot of land when I get my own house. It probably won't be in RI though. Gotta move somewhere with lower property taxes lol.
I suppose. I wouldn't do it any longer than you have to though. With CWA ballasts, if you change the capacitor type you can convert a 1000W ballasts to 700W and vice versa. You just need to know the right capacitor MFD/uf rating to switch to. Since 700 and 1000W MV CWA ballasts use the same ballast core.
I suppose if someone has a old 700w merc ballast we could use the cap uF rating from that and then test the lamp current to see if it's being driven properly. I have a 1kW merc ballast but I don't have a 700w lamp or a meter to test lamp current.
My 700w MV ballast does not even need the capacitor it works with out it The capacitor stopped working on the 700 ballast but I put a diffrent one and it works every good. I will just get a 1000w lamp, 700 MV looks dim for the pond area
I don't have any 700W MV fixtures but if I did I would probably end up changing the cap to run 1000W mercs since 700W mercs are near impossible to find. Soon enough all MV lamps will be impossible to find.
IIRC most 700w merc ballasts are CW-A/I type ballasts which require caps to operate correctly. Running them without a cap might make them draw eceess current and overheat the primary.
I wonder why they (mostly) stopped making 700w mercs, its weird since they still make all other wattages, even the less common ones like 50 and 75w. Anyway I believe the last of the big three to make them was Philips and I think EYE still makes them as a special order.
Yeah NEVER run a CWA or CWI ballast without the capacitor. The capacitor is absolutely necessary for proper operation. With HPF reactors the capacitor it just an added bonus though and can be removed.
LOL yeah the capacitors are important. Nah I dont need one at the moment since I don't have any 700W MV fixtures but I guess if I ever come across a 700W MV fixture I'd need a lamp. In 2016 they're going to stop making all the MV lamps so they'll get hard to find. I think they're gonna stop making probe start MH lamps and ballasts then too.
I guess so, not a bad idea. I would like to buy a couple cases of 100W, 175W, and 400W MV lamps for the fixtures I'll have in the future but I don't have that kind of cash lol. When I turn 18 that's when they ban MV lamps.
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I wonder why they (mostly) stopped making 700w mercs, its weird since they still make all other wattages, even the less common ones like 50 and 75w. Anyway I believe the last of the big three to make them was Philips and I think EYE still makes them as a special order.