It weighed in at a whopping 50lbs and cost $10 and some change ($0.20/lb) but I got it home in my little Honda Civic.

Right now I've got the ballast xfrmr out and am JB Welding the supports back in. There was some gravel and dust from the scrapyard in there too that I had to vacuum out. The reflector shield is a little bent up, but it's in pretty good shape, too.

The only problems I can forsee with this thing are that it's rated at 480 volts and it's kind of ungangly. It will make a hell of a shop light, though. I do have a step-up transformer that can take 120 or 240V, but I think the secondary is 360V or something, which is leaving me shy of the 480V.

It kind of looks like a tomb or something. Just a box with a pipe comeing out of one end with 3 bolts you tighten onto another pipe the first one fits over. I guess I can post some pictures if anyone wants some.

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If it's 100,000 watts at 115 volts, that means it draws about 870 amps! This is making welding cable look thin!

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Normal home lighting doesnt work for you?

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Sure it does. This is just more interesting.

For a joke one guy stood between the element and a 5000 gallon water tank and his outline was projected through the tank to the back of the plant making a nice 20'+ outline.

I did connect the secondaries to 30vdc 20A once, and it acted as a huge electromagnet. It attracted everything magnetic on my workbench within 3 feet of it

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I was surprised to learn that our power company offers "dusk till dawn lights" for about $5/month... in 200, 150 and 100 watt configurations...

My TiBook uses about 40-60 watts, the iMac uses 80 watts without monitor, my MultiScan 15 uses 95 watts max, and a blue/white G3 uses about 200 If I remember correctly (I'll find out when I have mine)

what are you using these lights for?

ohwell... weirdness...

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something like 60,000 watts worth of T3 bulbs at 480V 3 phase

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Mmm, interesting. So the point was to heat the water? What did you use as a ballast?

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something like 60,000 watts worth of T3 bulbs at 480V 3 phase

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Mmm, interesting. So the point was to heat the water? What did you use as a ballast?

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I had a better idea they went with later.

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The JB Weld cured overnight and I got the magnetic ballast and everything all back together. I also got the step-up transformer out of the storage shed, and yeah, it only goes up to 380V. but maybe I'll give her a try. There's also a 95V winding that I can try to put the 120V wall current onto to give it a little more oomph, but it probably will still be short of the true 480V. I guess I should start looking in commercial air conditioners again. Maybe tomorrow I'll try and fire her up.

I hooked up the 120V line to the 95V winding on the transformer and the secondary read over 480 volts on the multimeter. I hooked this up to the light and ran it about 2 minutes. Long enough for the lamp to warm up some. At that point I put my ear near the transformer and heard the telltale popping due to thermal expansion. I promptly shut everything down. Then I put my hand on the transformer windings and they were hot! I think the transformer is still okay, but I'm not going to try that again! I also tried running it on the 360V, but there was just a thin arc in the arc tube and it wouldn't stay lit.

There'll be 3 when I finish uploading.

And certainly not to burst your bubble... I'm a avid indoor gardener and 1,000 watt grow-lights aren't uncommon.

http://www.hydrofarm.com/content/growlights.html

Here's some marketed by HydroFarm - a major Hydroponic equipment company. And some really nice lights :) See the Super Grow series. You can also get them in High Pressure Sodium & Metal Hallide configurations.

I do understand that there IS 1000 watt lightbulbs... but I would never run a lightbulb that takes more power than my computer... it just doesn't make sense to me...

it's just like me running 10.1 server on my 7300, it's possible, it does exist but I haven't seen it too often before... so it's something new and amazing to me... (I'd think)

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I'm a avid indoor gardener

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Hmm. What do yo grow

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1,000 watt grow-lights aren't uncommon.

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I never said they were uncommon or that nobody had ever seen them before. It's just not something the average person would have lying around - kinda like a souped-up LC III server.

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I would never run a lightbulb that takes more power than my computer...

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According to AppleSpec, a 7300 runs at 150W max. But that's probably with the hard drive thrashing and the processor at 100%. You turn on 2 100W table lamps and already be more than a 7300. Most people's bedroom lights have 2 75W incandescent bulbs. So that's 150W.

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Nothing at that address

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Sorry about that. It's fixed now. I enclosed the link with [url /url] and it borked the 68kmla URL in there and screwed it up. I won't do that again! bah, bah I say to this forum software!

There's also a third picture that's comeing that didn't upload for some reason.

The Lightning Stalker

Edited by - The Lightning Stalker on 01 Aug 2003 16:56:00

I worked with something like that when I was working stage crew. We were throwing trusses, robolights, scanners, and about six hundred par64 lamps up round the stage, (not to mention about a million miles of DMX cable) and I came across several of those kind of things kicking round the third electric drop. We ripped em out, and threw em in the stage room, and that was the last I saw of them. I think that they were cyclights or summat like that.

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