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LED panels. Built mine for less than $250.
Table Light Recommendations
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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.
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The damage was slight.
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Each panel was framed individually then a splice plate tied them together.View attachment 887770
The lighting is good.
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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