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X-Shark (7/15/2008)I learned a lot tonight reading the forum here:
http://bow.fishingcountry.com/bfcfor...splay.php?f=21
Joel aka Murpheryslaw and I talk all the time and I helped him do some rigging on his boat.
We both have the same Honda 2000 knockoff generator. It's a Kipor brand in a Red case.
We have 4- halogen lights with 300watt bulbs in them. They do pretty good.
But now on to what I learned tonight.
The lights we have put out 20,000 lumens. @ 10amps This is all 4 - 300 watt lights added together. That means it's running @ 3/4 load ALL the time.
If you mounted 4- 150watt of the small HPS [High Pressure Sodium ] lights. you would get 64,000 lumens @ 9.6amps @ startup and then they drop back to using 5.6amps.
Our generators can put out 13.3 amps, so 12amps would be safe to operate all the time. As you can see the gen would be running at 1/2 load.
But you get 3 times the light. of the halogens. 
1 Lumen is the light you would get from 100 birthday candles lighting up 1sqft of space from 1 foot distance away .
The light's are $58.00ea.[bulb inc.] Replacement bulbs are aprox $12ea.
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Just curious why the 4 150 watt bulbs would pull that much? Do the ballasts require a little extra to make the bulb function properly? I ask based on the equation of: Power (watts) = Voltage (Volts) X Current (Amps). Do the ballast actually pull almost as much as the bulbs themselves? The whole lumens thing is cool.