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Great conversation piece! I'd be interested in knowing what voltage that runs on, too.
 

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that is a regular flashing beacon, runs on 120v AC.

does it have the flasher built in, or were you turning it on and off? i have several flasher modules at work as well as a few bulbs for them. no fixtures though!
 

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Wire it in so that whem you key your radio it comes on. Kind of like the "on air" lights outside of radio studios!

Very cool!
 

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You could use that to make a world class bug zapper!!
 

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Wire it in so that whem you key your radio it comes on. Kind of like the "on air" lights outside of radio studios!

Very cool!

That is a humorous, but great idea!
 

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As mentioned it runs on 120V AC, it has two 600 watt bulbs inside. Right now it's either on or off but I would be interested in buying or fabricating something to make it blink on and off.

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Hahah! That is awesome! Hands down the coolest thing I have seen all day.

Reminds me of a story...long ago, when I was a utility lineman, we had to remove a pole that was located in an alley. The city of Minneapolis had a full-size streetlight on the pole, and we asked them if they wanted to come get it. Their reply was basically "we don't care what happens to it." Another guy on the crew was building a house and got the idea that this thing would make a kick-a$$ yard light. So....we took it down and thew it in the back of the truck. In case you've never seen a full-size streetlight up close before, they are pretty large objects when you get them down to ground level...

So we come rolling into the garage that afternoon, and stop right in front of the guy's truck, and I help him unload this full-on streetlight in to the back of his pickup. The whole time, all of our first-level managers were out there having a smoke break, watching us wrestle this giant light into a pickup bed...

Last time I was out to his house, the streetlight was still there, quietly doing its job... :)
 

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Haha, that's awesome.

I bet 600 watt light bulb would really draw some power! That sucker is BRIGHT!

A neighbor must have thought a UFO landed in your yard! I'd have to agree with the post above, Christmas lights, a studio on/off light, or better yet, on your tower!
 

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As mentioned it runs on 120V AC, it has two 600 watt bulbs inside. Right now it's either on or off but I would be interested in buying or fabricating something to make it blink on and off.

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It wouldn't be too hard to rig up a simple circuit to make it flash...the biggest problem would the the 1200w total load, followed by the fact that you wouldn't want it to flash too fast...like maybe 3 sec on, 1 sec off.

OR...

how about a circuit that alternates the top and bottom lamps at about .2 Hz or so. That would look neat as well!

Here's yet another idea: if you have a gearmotor off of one of those moving reindeer yard ornament things, you could make yourself a low-voltage commutator by gluing a brass or copper strip across the wheel with brush connected and use that output to drive a solid-state relay....
 
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You could put it your roof... I bet the CC&R's would have a field day with that one.
 

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Don't forget that the lamps are designed to be on solid or flash using a circuit that doesn't simply turn on and off the voltage, but quickly dims and brightens it as it turns on and off. Simply turning on and off will cause the expensive bulb (especially when you include the cost of labor to change it) to fail much more quickly.
 
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