Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:02:08 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:02:08 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4327459062aa33481fae43cc0e89586f"; logging-data="2102945"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18VgmefEvQhcsdg8iu0D65dKVD/gSzs9Zk=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zeY9obz1fFHl0wmRRMeQhyZKP9k= sha1:/sbFIPfR0kDMEG4rLRsgbOuxVVY= Bytes: 3983 Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 6/25/2024 7:37 PM, Jay E. Morris wrote: >> On 6/25/2024 5:26 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> On 6/25/2024 11:49 AM, Jay E. Morris wrote: >>>> On 6/24/2024 1:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>> On 6/24/2024 1:55 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>> ... >>>>>>>> I have some 150 watt (70 bulbs) and 200 watt (90 bulbs) LED light >>>>>>>> fixtures inside and outside my warehouse, about 20 of them.  I >>>>>>>> have yet >>>>>>>> to have any failures on these.  They do have a huge heat sink on >>>>>>>> them as >>>>>>>> the fixture weighs about 13 lbs. >>>>>>>>     https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077ZNJRFS/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Currently unavailable -- but others are shown further down the page. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The size was interesting -- 17 x 15.7 x 2.4 inches >>>>>>> (length/width/height). That's a lot of light in a small package! >>>>>> >>>>>> They light the inside and outside of my 3,750 ft2 warehouse very well. >>>>>> >>>>>> And they turn on instantly whereas the old metal halide lights took >>>>>> ten minutes to turn on.  Plus the old metal halide lights were >>>>>> 1,000 watts each which was torture in the summer.  Nice in the >>>>>> winter though. >>>>>> >>>>>> Lynn >>>>> >>>>> Here is me replacing one of the 1,000 watt metal halide lights with >>>>> the new 150 watt LED light fixture.  So much smaller ! >>>>>    https://www.winsim.com/lynn_replacing_warehouse_top_light.jpg >>>>> >>>>> Lynn >>>>> >>>> >>>> Also appears that you're reducing the number of lights. >>> >>> Nope.  Still the same number of inside and outside light fixtures. >>>    https://www.winsim.com/warehouse_west_side.jpg >>>    https://www.winsim.com/warehouse_east_side.jpg >>> >>> I still have four more light fixtures to replace that I will get to >>> real soon now, maybe next winter when it gets cool again.  The boom >>> lift costs me $300 per day and I typically get three fixtures done per >>> day. >>> >>> Lynn >>> >> >> Bad assumption on my part. Since it appeared there were four across I >> assumed you'd taken one out there. > > There is an old metal halide light fixture above each of the office > balconies that I need to swap, one is going to be nightmare since the > tenant built a meeting room up there. And one in the outside overhang. > And one in the southeast corner of the warehouse. Four total. > > There is no light fixture in the middle row above the staircase. That > would have made too much sense to put one in there. For someone who I thought ran a SW business, that's a lot of HW. Pt