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Re: How do *you* light your pit?

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Originally Posted by Dwight_2 View Post
I personally haven't dealt with pit lighting I tried to convince my team about getting some last year (our rookie year) however funding wasn't best for it. But one of our good friends and travel mates team 5816 (GRA-V) had a great idea of using I believe LED spotlights, like those you can mount on the top of your car, and they would run the set of four mounted above their pit off of two extra robot batteries and charge those overnight.Idk where they got them but LED car lights aren't a bad idea because they already 12v and you could easily use a battery or inverter plugged into a power strip to power them.
+1 to Dwight. Our team mounted four LED spotlights to the corners of our pit structure last year since our pit had walls that blocked out a lot of light. Even when the light from above would have been enough to work in, the extra light was awesome to have in the pit and really helped to see things normally covered by shadows. We wired the lights through some sort of inverter or power supply (I'm not sure what exactly) and had no need to charge them, either.
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