Forum Title: Lighting a TALL water tower
Looking for suggestion on lighting up a 180"+ onion shaped water tower.The top is 4 times as large as the base, and they mostly just want the city logo's lite up. The city fathers are looking to have their newly refurbished tower ( but mostly just the city logo) lit up for all to see. The facility that it is located in, has fencing approx. 100' on all sides from ther base of the tower.. There are some 2 and 3 story businesses on the north and south side.The city logo is on 2 sides, the north and south side.I'll be meeting with a few of the lighting reps tommorow on site. Was just curious for everyone opinions. There is always the ability to gain access to surrounding buildings roof tops ( with legal agreements of course), to use as lighting platforms.Regards,HP
Category: General Electrical Discussion Post By: Joseph H (Delano, MN), 03/23/2017
Tight beam from a light on an adjacent building will be the way to go.

- Erica Lucas (Dow City, IA), 03/25/2017

I agree Ghost. The top of the tower is about 100' across, so of course the logo is about as wide. So I'm thinking probably 10 1500w MH fixtures, with narrow beams. The spacing of the fixtures should be interesting. Not sure if they could be grouped all mostly in the same area, or would have to be spaced evenly( maybe 10' apart) along the rooftop.I was also told late this afternoon, that " if possible", they would like all of the support structure lit as well. GeezBut that might be much easier actually. I'm thinking fixtures mounted at the base of each leg ( there are about 15 huge supports) all shining straight up.Conduit mounted on the curving concrete curb that rings the tower. Should work fine.HP

- Susan J. (Snyder, PA), 03/25/2017

In addition to the aesthetic lighting, towers like that may be required to have aircraft warning lights on them. Those have to meet very specific FAA requirements. The project engineer sould check with the regional FAA office to find out for sure...

- Raul Fleming (Washington, AR), 03/25/2017

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