Hey Tom, went out to check mine, have a few question for ya,
first, assuming the barrel is also 2 feet across at the top as well, tee
hee, where are your plumbing connections at the top of the barrell or at the
bottom? Reason for asking is if they are at the top your lighthouse will
need to be bigger around than 2 feet at 5 feet high to give you room for
plumbing connections, had this problem myself which is why it needed to be
10' tall, would have looked like a fat triangle at 7 feet, kinda squatty
looking, figured than one out the hard way. But anyway the basic setup for a
side board is the bottom of the board is generally 2 times bigger than the
top, in other words, 1 of my boards is 8 ft long and 12" wide at the bottom
and 6" at the top, I have 8 of those that make up the sides. The bottom
width of the lighthouse is 30". At five foot it is only 18" across, and 12"
at the top.

If you make the sides 8' tall your boards would need to be 16" at the bottom
and 8" at the top assuming you have all your plumbing in the bottom of the
barrel, if not we will need to go a little wider on each board to compensate
for pipes and such. At 16 and 8 though your bottom would be approx 40" (and
24" at 5' tall) and (16" at the top)

You would then need to cut a 16 inch octagon for the crown to sit on. Let
me know if these figures will work for ya, if not we'll refigure, no
problem....Claude

Note on my filter, about 8 inches of my barrel is actually below ground and
my lighthouse actually sits on 2 or 3 layers of retaining wall stone to
raise it up for the width problem, so the barrel didn't come up so high into
the lighthouse......It's always something....fortunately there usually a
work around...





"claude rogers" wrote in message
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Mine doesn't because the neighbors bedroom window is right beside the
lighthouse and it would shine in the window so I didn't get that kind,
it's
just a regular 25w yellow bulb and socket. You can get that kind for
around
$50
"Tom La Bron" wrote in message
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Claude,

Does the light rotate???

Tom L.L.
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"claude rogers" wrote in message
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Thanks Nedra I appreciate the kind words.....Claude

"Nedra" wrote in message
ink.net...
Well Claude, I, for one, am glad you posted. I could just see
your
wonderful pond but
had no idea where.... it is bookmarked in favorites now!.
Great job!!

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"claude rogers" wrote in message
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Don't have any plans, but I built one for the same purpose, would
be
glad
to
help with any measurements or angles or info you might need.

you can see it here

http://home.fuse.net/ace883/

"Norm Courage" wrote in message
.rogers.com...

I'm planning to build a lighthouse to cover my 45 gallon
biofilter,
has
anyone ever come across the plans to build one.?
--
The Courages