Raising the height of floodlights? Anyone done this?

[MatthewC]

I've got a halogen construction worklight that's two 500 watt bulbs.
They only come up to around 5 feet when fully raised, and I need to get these puppies a little higher in the air. It's going to take some modding.


Anyone got any ideas?

Also, what do you home builders use to elevate your clamp lights and get them off the ground?

My lights need height.

 

[cinealma]

Martian Welk put a worklight kit together and wrote an article over at dvinfo.com some time ago. Here's a quote about raising the height of the lights:

"The light base would take any kind of pole, so all I had to do was find the right one. They sold painting poles made of fiberglass, perfect size for the bases, and they had heights of way up to 16 feet. So we bought some poles which were 12 feet long. The end part would also snap out with a pushbutton, so we cut the paint pole threads off of this top end and drilled a hole in its center. Then we shoved a bolt through and bolted the light to it. With that, not only did we have high poles in good bases, but they also go up and down with a push of a button... and the top pops off with a push of a button, so the lights could be taken off."

And here's the link to the whole article:

http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/lighting/hdlightkit1.php


Hope this helps.

John G.