And attached to the ring fence no way would the light reach the middle of the arena.

You’d have maybe 10-15’ pools of light under them IIRC, so you’d need to buy 16 for a large dressage court, at about $290. They did not work to illuminate sufficiently. Several years ago I got some of these to test this idea: Like a jump standard) Leave 3ft or so of the extension pole nested in the base pole for stability. Have a couple holes drilled through each pole so that when you raise the extension pole to the correct height, you can run a couple hitch pins runs straight through both poles. The extension pole “nests” inside the base pole. The wider one is the base pole which gets set in concrete, and the smaller one is the extension pole, and the light gets attached to that one. To get the lights up to an appropriate height, I can totally envision a DIY telescoping light pole, where you have 2 poles, one slightly smaller diameter than the other. Remote controlled so you don’t have to depend on motion sensing.

If you have a way to put up a 15-18ft pole, 2 of these would give you a pretty bright arena. (I’ve always thought that it’s a bit silly to light up an entire giagantic dome of space above a riding arena, when all you need to see is the ground) Or if you have a fence around the arena, mount some lights under the rail. At that point, I’d honestly consider lining the edge of the arena with those little in-ground stake lights. Anyway by this rule, if you have a 60 ft wide arena, and you want the whole riding surface illuminated, you’d need 30ft poles, which is unrealistic in a farm setting.Īt a 10ft pole height, that’s essentially your eye level so you’ll really need them to be shielded and pointing down.

This assumes the fixture can be aimed a bit (but it should not be angled more than 30degrees or so, otherwise you’ll have blinding glare). One rule of thumb is that mounting height = 1/2 distance to be illuminated (ie, the extent of the “pool” of light on the ground). Also on how you will be using the arena–general WTC on the rail and some figures will have different lighting requirements than jumping a course.Īs part of the specifications of any given fixture, they’ll tell you how wide an area each lamp will illuminate. How many and how tall will totally depend on the design of the fixture & and lumens of the lamps you select. And, the model you linked has the motion sensor built into the lighting housing- so you’d need to mount them closer to the ground than you really want, otherwise they won’t “see” you as you go by. I would not do motion detector for arena lights–seems like they’d be going off/on constantly.

Solar lights outdoor motion sensor