Existential Angst wrote:
Awl --

Inyone know?

The bulbs themselves come anywhere from 50W to 250W, proly more.. I spose I
could climb up and ampprobe a wire real quick, before the police arrive....


Sodium puts out about 6x the lumens per watt of an incandescant.

I'm asking because I have to illuminate some dark areas around Le Hovel,
from my property, and want it to resemble the existing (or in this case,
non-existing) street lighting, at about the same brightness.

I called my town's light peeple, but DATS a shot in the, uh, dark, bleeve
me....

These are like NYC street lites, the tall pole, with about a 6' arm coming
out, edison-like base.
Not the decorative type lites, that are just vertical.



Sodium vapor lamps are about the most efficient ones available but they
have an orange glow to them that the halide ones do not, making the
sodium lamps ok for outdoor illumination but not that good for work
lighting. There are standard formulas for the wattage needed for the
area to be lit up. you should be able to find them on the internet.
Search architectural lighting.

John