DavidPBiddle
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9 years ago Did a little research and found two possible lighting options.
First of all CVR lighting comes in 24 foot strands each with 6 60 W incandescent bulbs. 6 strands will use 2160 watts. After adding an additional 320 watts for the TV and the amplifiers we get the total of 2480 watts. This is more watts than two 10 gauge extension cords running 250 feet can support. 10 gauge is the largest size cord I can find to rent.
Option 1: We can bring the wattage down to an acceptable level of 1289 by replacing 26 of the 60 watt bulbs with 6.5 watt LED bulbs Each LED bulb would provide light equivalent to a 40 watt bulb.
Option 2: Don't rent the CVR lighting system. Instead purchase 300 feet LED rope lights and set them up ourselves. These would bring the wattage down to 560 and allow us to use 12 gauge extension cords.
The cost breaks down like this.
Using CVR system and 26 LED bulbs $130 - LED Bulbs $157 - Light Rental $100 - 2 250 foot 10 gauge extension cords $388 - Total
Using the LED ropes $236 - 2 150 ft rolls of LED rope equipped with a plug $36 - 2 250 ft 12 gauge extension cords $272 - Total
The only concern we have is whether these two LED ropes will provide enough light. The company we would purchase from offers an 30 day trial period. We thought we would buy them and try them out one night. If they work and you like the idea then we would keep them.
dwightbiddle
sallyhutch
Went to Lee Hartman and sons in Roanoke today. They recommended a tv, because a projector and screen requires more space (screen should be about 13 ft from projector). The Tv comes in a big travel box which you can use as the table to put it on. Prices for one day (he said we could pick up on Friday and return on Monday, if we promised to use it only one day)... 32" TV - $85 (95 watts) 47" TV - $165 (130 watts) 60" TV - $200 (170 watts) Projector - $100, screen $25 (280 watts?, we forgot to ask so we looked on the net)
Called CVR. Each 24 ft string of globe lights has 6 bulbs (40 watts each or 240 watts per string) You reserved 8 strings. That would be 240x8=1,920 watts.
If we need to go 250 ft and we rent their nice heavy 10 gauge extension cord, David calculated that we should load it with no more than 1,200 watts. So we either need to run 2 extension cords or reduce the number of watts for lighting. We recommend the latter.
Some possible solutions Use 4 strings of lights instead of 8 Replace some of the 40 watt incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs that are as bright or brighter and use only 10 watts Run some LED rope (60 ft = 50 watts)