Re: Re: 2019 Indoor Nats - Public Comment Period

From: <leop_at_lyradev.com>
Date: 20 Jan 2019 19:10:47 +0000

Some are not able to see Don D.'s answer about the lights, Here is Don D.'s answer in its entirety:

 On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 1:01 PM Wayne Gaylor <wtgaylor1_at_...> wrote:=

 

 Kang, I talked to Daniel a short time ago. The school does not want us =
 to use the lights. They are very expensive, each bulb is 1000Watts, they a=
 re old tech, they have to warm up for a while and then gradually turn on. =
 There is no way to vary intensity. There are two banks, if you turn on one=
 half the lights come on the east side and half on the west. I have a set =
 of 3 halogen lights 500 watts each. I am going to try them after the South=
 west Regional on a white house across the street. In April, at our club co=
 ntest, I will take them and try them out in the Dome after dark with a plan=
 e in the air, and I will take pictures and videos. Rob Romash has lights a=
 lso. If we have to, I will try to persuade NFFS to buy more. We have a lot=
 of time to decide what to do. I tried! Sincerely Tom Gaylor
>
 

 DD
 

 So, it appears that the reason the arena lights will not be used is a cost issue. It would have been helpful to know the cost of using the lights but an estimate of the cost can be made. Public pictures show about 96 lights on each side of the football field for a total of 192 lights. Let's say there are 200 lights and each light uses 1000 Watts as Don D. states. At the cost of $0.15 per kilowatt hour, the 200 lights would cost $30 per hour in electricity costs to operate. This is probably an over estimate but it shows an approximate upper bound assuming all the banks of lights are turned on.
 

 The organizing committee is bulking over this amount of money. Renting (or buying) anywhere near enough lights will cost tin this same neighborhood and those rented lights also use electric power. At east we now have a fund raising goal is nothing else stands in the way.
 

 BTW, the lights at Kibbie and Johnson City are similar in wattage and in needing a warm up time (The Rantoul lights are probably less wattage per bulb and their warm up time is probably faster).
 

 LeoP
 


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