Mercury Newlec bollard, test run

For the longest time, my winter garden lighting has consisted of a SOX lantern mounted on the house, and a SON bollard light mounted in front of my main collection shed at the far end of the garden. This now left a large dark'ish patch between both of those lights, hence my search for a MBF bollard began.

I was given this bollard by a fellow collector, its brand new and did run 70w SON-I, however since its still a rather common light, I decided to convert it to mercury. I used as close to brand new control gear as I could, and gave it a respray to freshen it up and add better protection to the paintwork. I poured a concrete bed, before drilling the slab to allow the cable to pass through, and then stuck the slab into place with more (and this time very damp) concrete. After, I secured the base to the slab, sealed just about everything I could, and wired it all into place. The wiring was all installed long ago, and much like the SON bollard I've taken the opportunity to install a manual override to allow me to demonstrate lamps with ease on correct control gear.

At night, it lights the area brilliantly well, overall its been well worth installing.