May 13, 2006
The lights and transformers came in Friday. I got them all put together, the wiring drilled through the house into the basement and a test light turned on outside.
Too much flash, it washed out the picture. This is what the box looks like for the lights.
You take the parts out of the box, you have a head, bulb, extension tube and a spike thing. The spike thing is not supposed to be broken.
Take the 3 screws out, turn the globe to disassemble and you have this....
The bulb is halogen, 20watt. Inside the box, it is encased in a cellophane wrapper. Cut the end of the wrapper off exposing the prongs, but leave the glass part inside the wrapper. Holding the bulb by the wrapper only, push the two prongs into the socket on the light.
And, then take the cellophane wrapper off after it's in. Never touch the glass on a halogen bulb, this includes replacing your car light bulbs and any other halogen bulb.
Reassemble.
One of the glass globes is broken, and one spike thing.. out of 9 complete sets.
Here they are, all ready for game-time. Or, if Attila the Hun attacks, we can defend the castle.
Flower break... A girl just needs some flowers sometimes.
For clear pictures, send donations toward the Canon 20D replacement... :-) I ran about 14 feet of conduit and wire over to this corner in the basement. I now have 2 circuits to the outside. Each donut transformer is good for 200 watts. One will power the mushroom lights and the other will power the rope light thing.
I hooked one light up to the system to see if the power is to my switch box out there. So far, so good. For those keeping notes, check out the two white pig-tails hanging out on either side. The rope light hooks on there and runs under that lip. I'm still having stress about how to hook the rope light up in that corner. I'm exploring every kind of clip and hanger that even begins to make sense. I can't find 'small' screws that are concrete rated.
When it's done, the mushroom lights go out in the barked area outside the wall. There are two switches in this box. One turns on/off the mushroom lights, the other turns off/on the inside rope lights. Stay tuned...