cheap lamp holders

[sberry]

I wanted a cheap way to put some fixtures for service lighting up so I found these fixtures at Menards for 2.00$, bought some 150W floods, even came with cord, 4 dollars so far, then I ask my Bud Steven to come up with a way to hang them, something simple, easy to do with common parts. He took a minnie, a beam clamp, throw away the ground spike and we have easily moveable fixtures for less than 5$ in parts, plug in too.

 

[70BOWTIE]

GOOD idea

 

[bmwpower]

Are those type of floods supposed to be pointed downward?

 

[mike944]

BMW has a good point. They're probably designed to point upwards, where heat from the lamp can escape vertically away from the fixture. If you point them downwards, all that heat is now rising straight into the socket. You might want to consider down-sizing the lamp (I.E. using a smaller wattage) or using those compact flourescent floodlamps, which run much cooler.
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[sberry]

These will see limited use, we will see. I am not putting expensive lamps in fixtures that run 10 minutes a month. If it melts one off we will do something different but I ran one for a while yesterday and it was fine but it was 40 degrees out too. The listing is for 150W, doesnt say anything about position and I am using a listed lamp for the fixture.