What is the best outdoor lighting system to protect your house from burglars and crime?
Q. How have you set up your outdoor lighting system? Including the garage lights and the lights you might have in your flower beds which "spotlight" your house. Any tips would be helpful as there is an increase in burglaries and car thefts in my area (our cars have been broken into 2x in our driveway). Please HELP! P.S. We have car alarms but the thieves are pretty clever here, no alarms ever go off when cars are broken into. I don't know how they do it, our cars are always locked & alarms off. P.S. We have car alarms but the thieves are pretty clever here, no alarms ever go off when cars are broken into. I don't know how they do it, our cars are always locked & alarms on
Asked by ultra _ girl - Thu Jul 12 14:20:08 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I have a motion activated light by my back garage door. I installed lights on top of my patio cover that I can turn on if someone is on the hillside above my home. I have landscape lights in front, back and both sides. I use the spot lights to highlight recessed corners and the fence. I made it look like the spotlights on the fence are highlighting some decorative items I hung on it, but it is really so that burglars know they cannot get over the fence without being seen. I also keep the trees and bushes pruned under the height of the windows so that they do not provide an obscurity that criminals could use to enter. A very bright motion detecting light above the garage door not only gives visitors light to get up to the front entry,… [cont.]
Answered by eskie lover - Thu Jul 12 14:29:40 2007

What is the best lighting for a indoor photo shoot?
Q. My wife is just starting out with her photography business and is concerned about the lighting at her next photo shoot. She has shot most of her pics outside and is wondering what kind of lighting she will need indoors. (boom, soft box, barn door, or umbrella) also should she have relfectors? She uses a Sony A100 SLR Camera.
Asked by rsrumery - Mon Jan 19 22:41:05 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Optimally, three strobes (primary, secondary, and back-fill). You can get away with just one strobe and a reflector. Continuous lights -- aka, hot lights -- are cheaper and do provide you with a view of what you're doing right away, but they're just that: hot. Get them too close to your diffusers and you'll be buying new diffusers. Get them too close to your subject and they'll be sweating. I've become quite fond of the continuous lights using daylight-balanced compact fluourescent bulbs. Not as much heat, so you can still use softboxes on them. (Example linked below.) Lighting can be tricky, so play around with it and learn what you're doing before going live with it. A good light meter will help, too, since you'll have to work… [cont.]
Answered by DCReed - Tue Jan 20 08:12:00 2009

What is the best yet affordable lighting set up for a saltwater tank?
Q. I have a 46 gallon bow front salt water tank. The lights i have on it are a Coral Life light (1/2 actinic) and the standard lousy one that comes with most tanks. I have some mushrooms and zooanthids that are doing fine, but I want better lighting so they will grow / spread faster.
Asked by corey w - Mon Dec 10 12:40:49 2007 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Which coralLife light do you have??? Is it Power compact??? How many watts are the bulbs??? I use a CoralLife Power compact fixture on a 15gal nano Reef that has 1 X 10k 65W white and 1X 65W Actinic =130w Zoos and Shrooms don't need a lot of light but if you're planning on getting any LPS or SPS corals, you should have at least 5watts per gal. A 250w Metal Halide light (With a 12k bulb) would be the BEST light for that tank and you would be able to keep any coral you want. Unless you can put together a MH light yourself, they can be Expensive to buy.
Answered by 007 - Mon Dec 10 17:46:58 2007