I do have a question, but to set the stage first ...
I just started my LV light project. The transformer is hanging inside the garage. So the wire comes through the wall with the sprinkler wires on the left side. Then it comes around the corner and is powering the 4 path and 2 uplights. There are two more flower beds to the left and right of the porch. I have to get a wire under the driveway. Plan A was to jet under to the left flower bed, then under the porch to the right. There will be a plan B.
Since this picture, I have jetted under the driveway and do have the left side. The drive is about 18 feet at the grass wide.
Lessons learned. First, do
NOT jet through the sand. It actually creates a vacuum and is hard to push. Once I tried to push through the dirt, it was slow but steady. We have a lot of clay. I did lay the pipe across the drive and mark with a sharpie where I should stop. So for the second try, I moved down into the dirt and about 2 feet from the end, I hit something. Pretty sure it was the porch. So then I moved over and angle toward the garage. Pushed all the way to the mark. No sign of the PVC coming out the other side. Thinking it went down, I down, I dug deeper. So deep, I pretty sure they have a stem wall under the porch. It makes sense to hold up the front of the porch. So now I know I am not going under the porch to feed wire to the right side. Still could not find the PVC. I add another stick to the already 3 and pushed it. So now I am 40 feet for something that should have been 20. The good thing is the dirt keeps the shape of the tunnel so pulling it out and pushing it back in is no big deal. So for my fourth push, I move over toward the second one. I got to the same spot and hit the concrete. When you jab at clay vs concrete, they both are hard, but concrete has a different vibration. In the sand with the vacuum, you can not move it back and forth fast enough to tell the difference. Frustrated, I gave it a sharp jab and it popped through. Kind of hard to tell from the picture, but I was just on the edge and it snapped past the concrete. The PVC is sprung up against the stem wall. In the picture there looks like a gap, but there is none. I had to push it forward enough to pry it away from the concrete to get the saw behind it to cut off the jet nozzle.
I do have the left side lit up now but no pictures yet. I will have to go under the drive for the right side flower bed. We will see what lessons I really learned. :
Here you can see how far from the current lighted flower bed to the PVC start under the drive. I did not start at that angle. Again the picture is a little misleading. I was about 6" down, 5" wide, and 10 feet from the drive, so I could get a level push. After the water started drying, I am guessing from the spoils from the tunnel, which is why it looks that way.
Now for the question. The peak toward the far left is a little dark at the top. It is a tall peak, guessing 30 to 40 feet. What spec for a spotlight that can be a few feet from the wall that will reach that high?
