light house revoling light

[pudgybear]

I have a lighthouse in the front yard but my wife is not happy with light - it is not bright enough, does any one know where i can get a better revolving light?

 

[4xdog]

Yes, probably.

 

[matt151617]

I don't think the light itself rotates... it's probably a rotating shield around a bulb. Replace the bulb with something brighter.

 

[Milton Shaw]

I have seen rotating lights available at autozone/advance with yellow plastic covers. I assume they could be taken apart and used in a light house. 12 volt is a lot easier to be safe around than 120 volt in the yard. Use one of the small landscape light transformers to get the 12 volts to operate the rotating light.

 

[Steevo]

Looks ok from over here . . . .

 

[Strouty]

Something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BNMOKK/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Smiliesafari]

Great picture Stevo. That would be Pigeon Point Light. Been there. Cherie and I are big supporters of the lighthouse preservation movement. Been to 113 different lighthouses.

 

[ddawg16]

Pull out the bulb....look at the base....try to get a replacement in LED.

Try superbrightled....if they don't have it, you most likely can't get it.

I replaced the incandescent bulbs in the fridge with LED....a bit brighter at the fraction of the heat....I didn't do it for the power...it did it for the heat....if you left the door open, you basically had 80w of heat melting the butter or cheese.

One other advantage of LED.....they tend to be directional....hence, ideal for your application.

 

[where2]

If it were mine, it would have a revolving shield setup similar to a Spencer Gifts disco lamp. The shield is really an upside-down can rotating on a pin point, with vent vanes cut in the top of the can. Heat welling up from the bulb makes it rotate.

 

[G_P]

I think Harbor Freight sells a cheap magnetic base amber roto light for sticking on the roof of a snowplow truck.

Pull the guts out of one and put them in the lighthouse. They are a bit noisy though. you can hear the whirr and whine of gears when its spinning.

 

[Worsedog]

Do you have any pictures? As stated earlier "real" lighthouses and beacons have a stationary bulb and rotating lenses and reflectors.

 

[pepi]

Get an automotive strobe, build a 12 dc power supply, just needs to be bright not directional..

 

[pepi]

Looks ok from over here . . . .

My kind of humor, spit my coffee out, OTFLMAO good one!!