I wonder what it looks like when the wife throws it at you from a moving car ?
pics please
Thatās awesome! I got one of the 4x splitters to use in my garage: lighting is poor there, with only 2 ceramic single-bulb ceiling fixtures.
I had been using 2-bulb splitters to have four 100W-equiv. CFL bulbs, but that wasnāt bright enough. My ultimate plan is to add a third single-bulb fixture, then use the 4x splitter in the middle, with 2x splitters on either side giving me 8 bulbs total. Then, with the Loweās 60W equiv. LED bulbs, I should finally have enough light to work there. Of course, it 100-degree summer time now, so Iām not in a hurry to move on this project until later this fall when itās cooler, and gets dark earlier.
Now, Iām wishing I had seen these 7x splitters earlier; they have good pricing on the 3x and 4x splitters as well at Banggood; I may have to place an order soonā¦
Fuel for your fire. You know that they make octacopters that can carry 10 pounds easily. Try that 20k light with a battery pack at night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e7RJjIb410
You should start all over and use these. Save what you already have for something else.
The garage is what I originally got these for. They work very well for that. This is 5600 lumen.
My friend, once he saw the 3 that I ordered for him, wants 6 more. I just ordered another 10
The 1W landscape lights are wired, those solar powered ones are useless.
I tried to add 2 more layers and use 37 bulbs for 30,000 lumen but it was unstable, wanted to tip over.
Maybe somethings are better left undone 
Here is a pic of it off the floor lamp and upside down on the driveway during daylight hours. 3 minutes later I plugged it in. Notice how the surrounding area in the shot darkens as the light from it overwhelms the camera.
Hey, I just had an idea! How about I get some cheap wardrobe mirrors and construct an array of reflectors
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More, more! Great stuff here :-)
Its extremely windy around here today, grey skies, garbage cans, cardboard and recycle bins are blowing around the neighbourhood, the black hole from the lumen overload is beginning 
Well - thatās just par for the course, my friend. Weāre all fanatics, in most peopleās eyes - until they find themselves in a power outage, or some other situation, where they have no light, and wish they had something.
Then, weāre heroes.
Go figure 
Until power is restored
That is really great! Love the lights around the house. :D
Texas Shooter mentioned putting a bright light on a quad. Check out this video! THe guy mounted 100W of LED lights under a quadcopter and MAN does it ever look like a UFO flying around and really lights up everything under it. Some great photos he took using the quad as the light source are in the video. Really neat stuff. I can't wait to try some of it on my own stuff.
Thatās some serious bulbage!! WANT!!
Is she home yet? The wife that is.
HAHAHAAHAHA!!!
man I wish I were you 
Extremely interesting thread as always :bigsmile:
I love it. I am down for some home legoāing. Nice house you have there too.
You know, those first 6 adapters I got?
Theyāre gone. I used 3 and the friend that ordered the other 3 with me took his. Now I donāt have any to play with.:_(
BUT, I got more!
My friend wanted another 6 so I ordered another 10. Trouble is, everybody that sees these adapters, wants them.
So I put a third order in for even more. This time I ordered some of the 2 and 3 and 4 way adapters too.
Anyway, previously I was wimping about with 810 lumen bulbs.
How about I stop screwing around and use some seriously bright ones?
These babies are 4200 Lumens each.
And they fit, but just barely.
Trouble is, I only have 5. 
Hereās a wimpy 810 Lumen Cree on top for size comparison. 7 of these Monster CFLās would be 30,000 lumen.
If I get the other 2 and try it, it could be dangerous. You know like they say ādonāt try this at homeā
I know what!, Iāll go over and do it at a friends house.
:cowboy_hat_face: <āā welding goggles! Have you opened any up to MOD them as in thicker wire? lol Ya think the 4200lumen CFLs get hot?
Good call.
They get hot, thatās for sure. Each one draws 65 Watts and there is a sticker on the bottom of the adapter that warns each socket is only good for 25W each of LED lighting.
So yeah, things could get dangerous, thatās why I wonāt be doing this at home. :bigsmile:
My garage has 9 recessed PAR38 fixtures with 1400 lumen, 4400K bulbs in themā¦ no dingy car-shack for meā¦
My kitchen also has over 10,000 lumens in itā¦ most coming from 95CRI Sylvania PAR20 bulbs. Makes the roaches blinkā¦
I remember a thread like that a while back. I recall the guy cleaning up after the party and found a bottle of ābooty bleachā. Just searching those two words made finding the thread easy. :bigsmile:
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you didnāt get those for a penny each, did you?
It looks like one of those compact * cough * fluorescent lamps has been used a lot (see the yellowing on top of the base?) One or two others look like they have been used quite a bit too.
I remember looking at those huge bulbs in the store. They used to have a metal shield on top of the base to protect it from the monster spiral tube. But the newer ones donāt have that and just have the bare plastic just like any olā cfl.