Bar lighting

September 5, 2012
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The bar itself is a scratch build using leftover wood from Baxter Pointe Villa stained English Chestnut by Minwax.

To keep the bar removable, I wired the two lamps to a 9V battery adapter with an on/off switch from Evan Designs. Ingenious, right? Ha! There are two main issues with this idea. First, the bar is definitely removable, but it is hard to get it back into place without the wires sticking out...very fiddly. More importantly, the battery doesn't last long and the candlesticks are very dim. I tried wiring each lamp to its own battery but the difference in brightness was negligible and it doubled the fiddly nature of trying to get the bar in place with two battery assemblies fighting for freedom. What I should have done was made a plug in the floor. I may do this at some point, but it will require a little deconstruction and planning to do so. I'm not up for that right now.