Solar', Yep, fully aware of how this will go down. Our shop has a whole shelf of the cheapest, and beat up from being installed 4 times "Title 24 fixtures". Which is soon to expand I guess. Customers are just not going to take it very well. And I find it hilarious....

Customer and Designer hand you a fixture schedule and several thousand dollars of lighting, you look up from it with one eye glowing red and say, [schwarzenegger]Silly girly-man. All lighting MUST be METAL HALIDE, I'll be back.[schwarzenegger]

(I know full well our Hummer driving Governor had nothing to do with this, other than the rubber stamp.)

As for PDH's comment there, prolonged exposure to certain types of these "High efficiancy" lights make me feel physically ill. And there are "flicker free" ballasts made now, but cost a fortune.


Mark Heller
"Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason