poondogger
Registered
LED panels. Built mine for less than $250.
Table Light Recommendations
- Thread starter DrCue'sProtege
- Start date
LED panels. Built mine for less than $250.
Plenty bright. Works just fine.
I'll buy a brand new table because of break problems, but a $250 light, that's just too expensive.
Nice, but the glare while being seated is too much for this player to want/enjoy playing for hours. I'd need a hat and shades.I got 2 of the 2x4 led light panels from homedepot. Made the frames and hangers from recycled materials on hand in my shop. It is a shop table.They panels were discounted due to damage in handling at the store.
View attachment 887767
The damage was slight.
View attachment 887769
Each panel was framed individually then a splice plate tied them together.View attachment 887770
The lighting is good.
View attachment 887771
It ain't purty but it's good lighting.
The good thing about commodity drop-ceiling light panels is the egg-shell grates are also commodity. HD sells them. They can be added to any 2x2 or 2x4 LED panel. That's why Diamond/Littman/even old fluorescent GC4 lights are so good, and Perimeter/Arena lights blind everyone.
$20 at HD: https://www.homedepot.com/p/PLASKOL...-Crate-Light-Ceiling-Panel-1199233A/202025149
About a $170 in parts and a little woodwork time. There is a diffuser on it also. It's an incredible light, so much so that someone on here contacted me about making them commercially and wanted a diagram with dimensions and parts used. didn't offer to pay me anything. Maybe I should sell them, I do have a full workshop.
Great job! The room looks super.
If they contacted you for all of that info, they were not qualified to make them commercially.
The led panels are a soft light. The first and last pictures are taken with the light on. I don't notice any glare when playing.
The Diamond lights at Buffalo’s also have three panels but I’m thinking of using two 2x4 panels instead. I’d like color and wattage selectable. I’m thinking of using Diamonds lights as a guide but making it match the design of my Peter Vitalie Lord Nelson table but a bit more simple.
I use mine on an 8', would be fine on a 9', or if you wanted longer, you could build in a 6" spacer between the two outer lights and the middle one. The lights are programable and dimable.
I've replaced the old 40W and/or 60W bulbs in my table light with the LED bulbs. The one where it uses like 15W but puts out about 75W and 1100 lumens. It lights up the table a little better now. Since probably over 75% of my playing time on the new Diamond Professional will be during the day the new bulbs might suffice. They are least get the job done during the night time hours. But that's about all you can say about them.
I'm thinking once I replace the dark Standard Simonis Green 860 with Shark Gray it might help a little too.
r/DCP
I'm thinking once I replace the dark Standard Simonis Green 860 with Shark Gray it might help a little too.
r/DCP
Badpenguin
Well-known member
If you value your eyesight, don't scrimp on the lights bud. Once your eyes get fatigued there is nothing you can do but quit playing.
And most likely spent a few thousand on cues. Buy a Mercedes and use cheap gas, cheap tires.?
Last edited:
Agreed! Plus, all the new Diamond lights are made by Littman now, only the Logo has changed:
-dj
FYI here,
I am having a new light installed by Jack Zimmerman on November 1st. It's one that he himself makes. Plus he is replacing the cloth on both the Diamond Professional and the Gold Crown IV while he and his running mate are here.
I'll try and post some pics once they finish the jobs.
r/DCP
I am having a new light installed by Jack Zimmerman on November 1st. It's one that he himself makes. Plus he is replacing the cloth on both the Diamond Professional and the Gold Crown IV while he and his running mate are here.
I'll try and post some pics once they finish the jobs.
r/DCP
Dont follow the above. Get a modern light setup.
We've been suggesting that for a long time and you were adamant about it being unnecessary...what changed?
Always have preferred no light cept on the play surface.
When you play 15 twenty hours with this traditional set up, no eye fatigue.
Nothing better than these for a 9' .
Bottom of the bulb sits 36'' off the play surface.
You have an incredible selection of Bulbs for this setup.
Closeup lighting gives one clarity of shot.
When you play 15 twenty hours with this traditional set up, no eye fatigue.
Nothing better than these for a 9' .
Bottom of the bulb sits 36'' off the play surface.
You have an incredible selection of Bulbs for this setup.
Closeup lighting gives one clarity of shot.
