Jim: Never seen a racoon out here, got coyotes, though. and some VERY noisy peacocks!
Barry: if you ever get your LED seminar to DVD, count me in to purchase, that can be VERY useful. Am glad I don't have to deal with light pollution out in the boonies
You may need a few of them to equal a Malibu light. For my yard, I have been using pond lights from Harbor Freight. THey go on sale for about $7 and come with 3 different color gels and run on a 12V Malibu transoformer.
I use LEDs for pin spots, blinding spots, and washes in the haunt. They are also a lot cheaper to strobe than a flourscent fixture (but I still like my Wildfire strobe )
A little known trick is to sand the top of an LED to diffuse the light more.
For anyone coming to MHC, we will have a class called LEDs - The Other Haunt Light. I may do the class myself unless I get someone else to step up and take it but, then again, I haven't ever done a class at my own show :lol:
Tony, you might be warned by my experences with Malibo lighting in my backyard. Raccoon electricions! They steal bulbs, often pulling them from the light and leaving the perfectly good bulb laying on the ground next to the light!?
Sometimes the bulb is totally gone, I think they might think it's a hot treat and eat it?
I hoped I had pretty much solved this problem but just the other night as I was looking at my lighting I once again found bulbs missing! I have sloved this mostly by screwing the tops on the lights but it is still an on-going problem......
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