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I E S LIGHTING HANDBOOK
MOUNTING HEIGHT-50FT ( 75FT
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NOTE: EACH LINE INDICATES ONE FLOODLIGHT BEAM OF
APPROX. 60 SPREAD. AIM LIGHT BEAM AT END OF
LINES ON FIELD.
FIG. 12-11. Typical floodlight spotting
(aiming) diagrams: a. Football field spot-
ting diagram for sixty 1,500-watt, 60-
degree beam spread floodlights mounted
on ten poles, b. End elevation of two
floodlights aimed as indicated in a. c.
Spotting diagram for a semipro or a muni-
cipal class baseball field installation of
one hundred twenty 1,500-watt floodlights,
d. Spotting diagram for a Softball field
installation of forty-eight 1,500-watt, 50-
degree beam spread floodlights.
Similar diagrams are in general use for other sports. (See Fig. 12-1 lc
and Fig. 12-1 Id.)
There are several ways to put spotting or aiming information to use in
making an installation. First and most accurate is manual aiming of the
floodlight beam centers at predetermined spots on the playing area, as, for
example, on Fig. 12-1 la. This may be accomplished by using built-in
beam sights or by placing accessory beam sights against floodlights parallel
to their optical axes. Markers then are placed at the aiming points and
the sights aimed at these points by an engineer at the light.
A second aiming method is to calculate or determine graphically from
the aiming diagram the vertical and horizontal angular setting of each flood-
light. Most floodlights are equipped with degree scales which may then
be set to those angles. However, the accuracy of this method is limited, first
by tolerance in the leveling and aligning of mounting pole cross-arms and
second by the difficulty of setting the wide pointers accurately at the proper
position on the cast scales, which generally have coarse graduations. A
difference of several vertical degrees may move the beam center 20 feet or
more on the field.