maddmatt21
Newly Enlightened
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- Mar 5, 2018
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Hi all, new user in need of some advice/suggestions.
I recently came into possession of a '1 mile ray' marine spotlight from a coast guard ship. It had been converted to run off of AC power, but the job done was absolutely terrible. Looks like all they did was stick in an old incandescent headlight bulb socket into the reflector and it doesn't throw very much light at all. I thought I'd buy a handheld spotlight, pull out the 'guts' and replace this to make a decent static position light thrower for my back porch. What I'm looking for is if anyone has any recommendations on spotlights I should buy to use the parts for. The reflector on this is 8.5" across, and the socket is 0.5" across. I figured my price range on a 'donor' spotlight would be maybe 200 bucks. I don't want to spend a ton of money on something I'm just going to rip up mostly.
I thought I could use the same reflector, so from the 'donor' spotlight I guess all I need is the bulb socket and whatever electrics/ballast are in there.
Appreciate any suggestions anyone might have to get this thing back up and throwing light again!
I recently came into possession of a '1 mile ray' marine spotlight from a coast guard ship. It had been converted to run off of AC power, but the job done was absolutely terrible. Looks like all they did was stick in an old incandescent headlight bulb socket into the reflector and it doesn't throw very much light at all. I thought I'd buy a handheld spotlight, pull out the 'guts' and replace this to make a decent static position light thrower for my back porch. What I'm looking for is if anyone has any recommendations on spotlights I should buy to use the parts for. The reflector on this is 8.5" across, and the socket is 0.5" across. I figured my price range on a 'donor' spotlight would be maybe 200 bucks. I don't want to spend a ton of money on something I'm just going to rip up mostly.
I thought I could use the same reflector, so from the 'donor' spotlight I guess all I need is the bulb socket and whatever electrics/ballast are in there.
Appreciate any suggestions anyone might have to get this thing back up and throwing light again!