flood light setup north carolina help

[Crackerjax]

I bought a light trailer from a someone here in central north carolina, it looks as if it was mounted on a 105 trailer without the bed it has a crankup mast that gos about 40 or so feet with 3 huge flood lights on top it also has 4 little flood lights on tripods... it seems as if this unit is 240v only and I need to find a maunal that gos with it and a gen set... please help

thanks

 

[Chief_919]

Got an NSN or model #?

 

[AMGeneral]

Hmmmm,I would guess you purchased that from Rob Jopeck then.

 

[Crackerjax]

hmmmm,i would guess you purchased that from rob jopeck then.

yep

 

[Nonotagain]

Hmmmm,I would guess you purchased that from Rob Jopeck then.

Any idea why he was banned?

 

[Crackerjax]

So yea... um I am sol on the info? ... it looks new and seems to be all there execpt for the power... any place for replacement bulbs?

thanks

 

[Speddmon]

the bulbs are more than likely Metal Halide bulbs...easily found at any electrical supplier, but you will not be happy with the price tag. Most tower lights of that sort are metal halide. The bulbs should have some information on them as to what they are.

Also it's easy enough to find out what the voltage for the set-up would be, if I could see the set that is. The ballasts for the lamps would be a give-a-way as to what voltage they are wired for. And the part about being 240 volts because of the load requirements isn't necessarily true...just by seeing the tower picture, it only has 3 lamps on it...typically these kinds of towers use 1000 watt lamps, so

3000 watts ( 1000 watts x 3 lamps ) / 120 volts = 25 amps.

A good 5 KW generator at 120 volts would run those lights just fine, and a few smaller lights like you mentioned

 

[Crackerjax]

yea the 4 smaller floods are 500w each... metal halide bulbs... oh man most likely not cheap

 

[Speddmon]

so from what you are saying, you have a total of 5000 watts of lighting...3 x 1000 on the tower and 4 x 500 for the portable floods. I haven't bought any for a while...been laid off from work, but at our volume cost we were paying over $50 per for the 500's

So a 5KW would run your set-up, but if you want extra capacity, you need to go a little bigger.

 

[ctmustang]

I personally saw that setup working some months ago and yes it was running on 110. it was being powered with a 5kw military genset. It all worked great. I may have some bulbs I will give you that I in the past used to use in my garages here at home but have since switched to a hi output fluorescent. If I can find the extras I will gladly send them to you at no charge and yes they are a bit pricey.

 

[Crackerjax]

sweet thanks.....

 

[Crackerjax]

NSN-6230011701408
make-sm4a30


if that helps

 

[FrankUSMC]

Crackerjax
If you make a run to the coast (Morehead City area) I have some light parts that were in a trailer I got. It is some light shields and some other stuff. You can have them.
One of the few, Frank USMC RET

 

[ctmustang]

Hey Cracker
Why not ask the guy who sold you the set whatever questions you have. It would only make sence. I,m looking for the bulbs on sat.