Thread: Outdoor Haunt Lighting

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So, I've read a lot of the posts here and around the web--the skull and bone tutorial in particular is really awesome--but I went to get myself set up for it and I realized that I'm apparently lacking the basic knowledge that these tutorials assume. Like--ok, you use two floodlights and a handful of warm accent lights. What do you screw the floodlights into, and how do you power them? I went to Home Depot, and the guy in the lighting department tried to sell me some forty dollar led dusk-to-dawn sensor system thing, and I thought "that can't be right. " . Can the accent lights be those battery-operated led-candle things? Or, if those aren't bright enough, what then?

I realize that this all sounds really dumb, but I'm really lost.

Hi, and welcome to the forums. OK, what are you trying to accomplish? You can get flood lights that run off line (110) voltage. You can also get LED bulbs for them. I'm assuming that the 40 dollar thing was a transformer for low voltage (12 volt) landscape lights. Sorry, I'm probably not much help, but I'm not sure what you need. If you pick a project, I could probably walk you through it though.

What Pat said, need more info on what you are lighting and what the effect is for the light.

IE: are you lighting the whole front of your house in say green or looking to hi-light some props etc.???