Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:26:41 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:26:42 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d503a45b2829614cc0c0c2f65826a7ab"; logging-data="1853171"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18l/JWoeZlRW6XJhiD8R+VdeNN6ThEe250=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:6skvmqVXMysUsb7TnWD0xSz2r5s= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2979 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