@BeerGeek, Are you using anything interesting as far as electronics go to fire them off?
Got my lightpole working. It was a minor ordeal. Found out why it didn't light. I must have hit the pole with the brushcutter, and it cut the wires inside. I saw the gash, but I swear I don't remember brushcutting around it.
The pole is crunched at the bottom cause decades ago, kids in the neighborhood thought it was good fun to bend over lightpoles. Those little fuckwits grew up, moved out, and hopefully have died painful deaths at this point. I don't know where the end of the pole is, and my exploratory excavation didn't find it loosening amongst the roots, so I just snapped it off. I hammered each end roundish, stuffed a piece of locust in the stub, and fitted them together. My splice of the romex failed the first time. I don't think I have any here, and had very little extra room to work. I think my wires crossed by poking through the splicing tape. I cut a water bottle up, and wrapped the strands with the plastic. Put it all back together for the Nth time, and success!
Put everything together good, and look at the pole figuring out how I'm gonna handle the bottom. Dig a piece of pvc out of the garage with the intent of sleeving the bottom, and GODDAMMIT. gotta take it all apart again to get the pvc on. Get my can of sprayfoam to seal the top, and it failed. Can was rusty, and nothing was coming out. Got some of the foam my generator came packed in, and trimmed that down, and stuffed it in the top. All that's left is collecting rocks from work, and piling them around the bottom to disguise the pvc, and figure out exactly how I'll trim the plants around it. Oh, and I lost a screw cap to put one side of the top on. I'll have to dig around the house, and see if I can find something. If not, I'll buy one from the hardware store.
I don't have a problem paying for a new pole, but I think it'll be a pita to install due to the plants around it, and I don't know what I'll find in the ground as far as wiring goes. I think it's better dealing with what I've got, and my fix should last many years.