Anyone interested in nightlights

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Anyone here interested in nightlights, streetlights, light fixtures, lamps, or flashlights?

I don't want to cross post and I have mentioned my 8000 watts of houselights elsewhere.

I also have a collection of handheld lights.

The brightest are a pair 35 watt HID rechargable, good for 45 minutes. The spot can make a circle on low clouds, or reflect moose eyes at 1/2 mile. The flood makes me squint if I aim it at snow.

Next is a 10 watt LED, good for 3 hours. This is more useful as it is dim enough to be used at close range.

A bunch of 3 watt pocket LEDs, the one in my pocket now is 2 levels of white, bright and brighter, and two levels of green, dim and dimmer to preserve night vision.
Several low power UV LEDs also.

And handheld lasers are lights as well.
The 1 watt green laser has been used to burn my initials in wood boxes. The 1 watt blue laser does not burn as well.
The instructions say do not aim them at satellites.
The itty bitty red laser is for the cats.

I am fascinated by lights of all kinds and have been collecting them for some time.

I love the little multicolor LED Christmas lights.

Like torches and LED's
Look a bit funny playing with torches at 53 years of age

However big toys for big boys seem to be allowed. Running 6000K HID Zenons in the 5 driving lights, another two in the factory fog lights and a high/low solenoid actuated set of 6000K's in the headlights. Solar noon at midnight with a flick of a switch

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I'm interested in all of those things. I have a few night lights that I use and I also saw a lamp that looks like a street light that I'm planning on buying myself for my birthday.

Lights, yes. My 'night light' that sits on my nightstand is a brass candlestick lamp with a 104-year-old socket on it. The lamp itself is probably the same age, but I have no way to tell. The 2cp sign bulb that I have in it dates to the same decade, 1900-1910.

I put a diode inside it to cut the duty cycle in half, extending the life of the antique bulb. It's been burning non-stop for over six months now.

I also have a 1.5kW bulb sitting around that I'm sure just pisses off the EPA and all those who would deprive us of our incandescent lamps. It's essentially a super-bright space heater. You can feel the watts dumping off as heat the moment it lights up. Bulbs like that were used in stadiums and warehouses before mercury vapor lamps came about.

Probably not what you mean but...

Ahhh, the 1950s and riding down the street at night in Tampa with all the neon lights glowing. The stuff that good dreams are made of.

A few years earlier when I was 4 years old, the light fixture in our bathroom burned out. The change terrified me since I could not understand it and I had some really bad nightmares about that burned out light fixture. At night the fixture would go walking across the ceiling and into my bedroom then crawl down the wall behind my bed and grab me while I slept, awakening me in sheer terror. When sitting on the toilet, I was so afraid of that burned out light fixture that I tried to appease it by talking to it and taking grocery orders from it saying stuff like, "you want bacon? OK I will add it to the list. You want eggs.. etc". It was a high ceiling about 10-12 feet high but my dad finally changed the bulb.