Floodlights for a menage

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morgan4eva

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Have just had a menage built! (Ooh exciting!) but I need to organise some lighting. Have heard that Halogen lights are bril but reeeelly expensive! Have also heard that Sodium lights are much cheaper to run but that horse cannot see very well in them! Does anyone know about this? Suggestions/advice needed!!
 
We got two sodium lights from Cannock Electrical (Google them) Each is 250watts and £81 each. They are perfect, seems the horses can see fine - done lots of jumping under them - and they are very cheap to run. Mounted them together, angled in two directions and they are quite adequate. Three equally spaced would be perfect but no regrets at all with two. Love them.
 
I'll ask at the yard tomorrow- we've just had a new light put up as one of ours was really dim and causing horses to spook. The one that was replaced was expensive and the cheaper one was better but i've no idea what the difference was. I'll find out tomorrow.
 
we just got 2 halogen lights from focus for £9.99 this lights up arena nicely but not for jumping, just flatwork (you could get 4 though which would do the job, and we do have to cart them out and set them up when we ride in the dark, but still bloody good.
 
tha haloggen lights that i have seen are very good...one of my instructors has 4 of them and the other has 2 and they work really well,
 
Halogen are not good on two points:
1. You'll need 1,000 watt to get decent light, these are expensive to run
2. If either you or the horse looks directly at the lights you'll be dazzled
 
Thanks for all the advice - Halide sound good, interesting to hear that Sodium lights dont seem to cause a problem with the horses vision.
 
We've just put in PP for lights and spoke to some lighting companies - all advised Metal Halide (more expensive to buy in first place) but give a clearer white light and also don't blow as frequently as halogen (halogen don't like alot of movement and being in the fens we get alot of cross wind)

We were advised against sodium as they reckoned horses can't see in it (rubbish though as my old yard had them and we used to jump fine under them) and also they take longer to warm up.

Just a word of warning though - for the PP our council were very hot on light spill and light flow diagrams so may be worth getting a lighting comp to do a design sheet for you - most do it free
 
We'd have gone for the metal halide but i think cost was the issue. We have nothing to put more than two up on. I would love four equally spaced down each side, but aesthetics prevent this! Are the replacement bulbs a bit expensive? Can't remember.
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