Large china hat lights for rent

China hats by diameter, 15 to 20 inches

Large china hats at EC Props run from 15 to 20 inches across, and the stock clusters at three diameters: 23 lines and 422 lights at 16 inches, 19 lines and 367 lights at 18 inches, and 10 lines and 122 lights at 20 inches.

The 15, 17 and 19 inch sizes are short lists. L-0250 is a 15 inch bell shaped reflector with a large hoop or ring for hanging; L-0184 and L-0483 are the 17 inch lines, one with a solid cap and one aluminum with a vented socket cap; and L-0240 is a 19 inch marbled galvanized metal china hat with a ring for hanging.

The Street Lights category holds china hats from 14 to 24 inches, mounted on a pole, a base or a wall gooseneck: L-0093 puts an 18 inch green china hat on a candy cane pole, L-0632 is a wall mount gooseneck carrying a 20 inch shade, and the street lamp L-0357 has a bubble top china hat 24 inches across. Warehouse bay fixtures and a dual china hat on a bar are filed under Warehouse Lights.

Necks, caps and finishes that set lines apart

Within one diameter, the neck, the cap, the shade and the finish are what separate one large china hat line from the next in EC's book. Necks come as a 2 step neck (L-0107 and L-0132 at 16 inches), a 3 step neck (L-0215, white, at 18 inches and L-0131 at 20), a 2 tier tapered neck (L-0158-2) and a vented neck (L-0208 at 16 inches, L-0676 at 18).

Caps include a twist on socket cap (L-0092 at 16 inches, L-0297 at 18), a vented cap (L-0064), a ceramic cap (L-0070) and a solid cap (L-0184). Shape words in the book include shallow shade (L-0212, L-0666), vented shade (L-0106) and teardrop (L-0146).

Finishes, metals and colors run from chrome (L-0128, L-0146) and stainless steel (L-0158-3) through aluminum (L-0158-4) and marbled galvanized metal (L-0471, L-0240) to white (L-0525, L-0518), black (L-0563), gray (L-0666) and green with a gray metal top (L-0055, L-0055x).

Lines that share one base number show how fine the book's split runs, all at 18 inches: L-0158-1 is chrome with a 3 step neck, L-0158-3 stainless steel with a 3 step neck, L-0158-2 chrome with a 2 tier tapered neck, and L-0158-4 aluminum.

A run of matching shades starts from one stock number, since every light under a line shares that line's description. Lines that read alike stay separate in the book: L-0068, L-0083 and L-0193 all read 18 inch and nothing more, so their item page photos are the place to compare them. EC's old site led its Large China Hats page with a mounting pipe photo, now on the Large China Hats photo wall.

Globe and guard lines, reflectors and vapor pairs

Globe and guard lines number 7 among the large china hats, 47 lights in all, and EC's book describes every one of them as hazardous location: L-0169 at 20 inches and L-0334, L-0335, L-0336, L-0337, L-0338 and L-0510 at 16 inches. L-0338 adds a flush mount, and L-0510 is white.

The hazardous location description also appears on L-0177 at 16 inches and on L-0055, an 18 inch green light with a gray metal top and a glass globe under it; neither line lists a guard before the book cuts it off. L-0055x has the same green and gray description with no glass globe.

Hazardous location is the book's own description of these fixtures, printed here as EC wrote it. Fixtures EC files as hazardous location lights, china hat or not, are gathered on Hazardous Location Lights.

Radial wave and bell shaped reflectors are filed with the large china hats too: radial wave reflectors at 20 inches (L-0150, with a 3 step neck, and L-0405) and at 16 inches (L-0151, with a 3 step neck), and bell shaped reflectors at 16 inches (L-0188) and 15 inches (L-0250). Together they come to 5 lines and 55 lights.

The china hat and vapor light pairs are 16 inch: L-0053 comes with the L-0114 vapor light, and L-0563 is a black china hat with a flush mount vapor light. Look under Vapor Lights for vapor lights by themselves.

China hats go out as-is, without a plug

EC Props rents every large china hat as-is, like everything else in its stock book. EC's rental policies state the rule in one sentence: "All items are rented on an as-is basis, without an electrical plug, which makes the items non-operational at time of pick-up."

The light counts EC Props gives for its large china hats are stock on the books, not a hold for your week. EC's request hold list puts it plainly: "Must call or email to verify availability." Rates come from the front office, 818.764.2008.