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by: AnnaRipley Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Dec 20, '16 11:28pm  
Hi everyone, this is Anna.I am planning to install the flood light in my backyard (size 300*200ft), how many light should I have? And what type of light is energy-saving, LED or metal halide? Is ace flood light 1000W suitable for this purpose?Any other recommendations? Thanks in advance. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 21, '16 6:49am  
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 21, '16 7:43am  
LED will be the cheapest to run, but expensive to buy.  I would think if it is that much area that you want lit up you will need more lights spread around.  If you just want some light for security you could probably get by with three or so flood lights on one mounting.  4951
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 21, '16 7:48am  
I think a std. Neighborhood Street light pots out about 4500 lumens (not watts). See how many lumens that is.
Don't **** off your neighbors either.
 
I have 2 100 watt equivalent florescent lights in my 1/2 ache backyard, and everything but the most distant edges has some light.
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 21, '16 7:55am  
I have six LED flood lights, good for saving but the brightness is weak. These are Phillips Hue flood think they are 800 lumens. Very expensive but but smart phone programmable and I can change the colors to almost anything, has about a million shades of any color. Really depends what you want. If you want very bright stay away from LED, tech is just not there yet. For your size yard I would think 4-6. 4951
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AnnaRipley Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Dec 22, '16 3:04am  
I would say 2 of the 1000w bulbs and you will be able to play baseball at night. Your neighbors may not like it though. 
 
@SwaggyG: Whatdid you mean? Would it be too bright?Maybe I meant 3-4 lights with 1000w in total 4951
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AnnaRipley Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Dec 22, '16 3:08am  
LED will be the cheapest to run, but expensive to buy.  I would think if it is that much area that you want lit up you will need more lights spread around.  If you just want some light for security you could probably get by with three or so flood lights on one mounting. 
 
@buffaloglenn: In fact it is for my football team, just saying..um.. security is another purpose. My major objective is to hold the parties at nightso one mounting at each edge would be appropriate? 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 22, '16 6:52am  
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 22, '16 11:31am  
May as well go industrial....mercury vapor!
 
But I hope your neighbors don't live close Emoticon
 
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 22, '16 12:34pm  
May as well go industrial....mercury vapor!
 
But I hope your neighbors don't live close Emoticon
 
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7,000 lumens per fixture
 
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 22, '16 6:58pm  

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But I hope your neighbors don't live close Emoticon
 
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7,000 lumens per fixture
 
 
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I had one of those when I lived in collage station. Took about 2min to get her going. Then it was all daylight at bohica! 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 23, '16 10:49am  
In fact it is for my football team, just saying..
 
um.. security is another purpose. My major objective is to hold the parties at night
so one mounting at each edge would be appropriate?
 
@AnnaRipley: Flood lights and late parties. Your neighbors are going to love you!
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 23, '16 11:39am  
This is clearly a spammer post, but I can't figure out what the angle is.   4951
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 23, '16 2:19pm  
Hi everyone, this is Anna.I am planning to install the flood light in my backyard (size 300*200ft), how many light should I have? And what type of light is energy-saving, LED or metal halide? Is ace flood light 1000W suitable for this purpose?Any other recommendations? Thanks in advance.
 
@AnnaRipley:  What caught my eye was the 1,000W.  Most flood lights for home use are usually 100-150W (incandescent equivalent) bulbs, but you can get fixtures that hold 3 (or more) flood lights.  In addition to incandescent, Halogen, and LED lights, there are Metal Halide and Mercury Vapor lights.I forget which type we had in our refineries, but it gave off a weird orange light. As someone else mentioned, you would be better off installing a couple of multiple flood light fixtures (maybe totaling the equivalent of 1,000W incandescents) around your back yard.  If you put a single 1,000W light, It would need to put on top of a pole, or you will temporarily blind anyone that happens to look at it.  In addition, a single 1,000W light will draw lots of amps so you need a larger gauge power wire, and probably circuit breaker, and the light (if incandescent, Halogen, Metal Halide, or Mercury Vapor) will generate a lot of heat, so you don't want anything that will burn just above them.  Even LEDs, while the most efficient source of light, still generate some heat, but not enough to start wood on fire.Another disadvantage of using a single, very high lumen, light is that there will be deep shadows, which is fine for security, but not so much for parties (unless mounted on a very tall pole).  The use of multiple lights from different directions would be better for parties.
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 23, '16 6:01pm  

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>> May as well go industrial....mercury vapor!
 
But I hope your neighbors don't live close Emoticon
 
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7,000 lumens per fixture
 
 
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And butt-ugly to hang on your house. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 25, '16 3:06am  

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7,000 lumens per fixture
 

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And butt-ugly to hang on your house.
 
@ET:
 
In some cases esthetics takes a back seat to good old fashioned candlepower. Emoticon
 
You could always paint the base to match instead of just ugly cast aluminum.
 
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