I like the concept of the mod, I just wish that the light radius (and likewise power consumption) were smaller than that of the regular lamp? Just makes me feel like the lamp is now useless/redundant to have as a separate placeable entity when the poles can cover the same area.

A lighted pole needs a lamp to craft, why would it suddenly have different statistics than if placed by itself?
If anything the radius from above a pole should be larger compared to a lamp on ground level.

Create your own lamp component then? Or just add the ingredients as if a smaller lamp were being added to it? Just a suggestion. Don't have to do it. As I said, just makes the current lamp feel redundant and unneeded as a separate entity.

There is a recent reddit thread asking about the light radius.

My idea / suggestion is to create an additional recipe that requires a second light item and produces a more light or a larger radius.

I've added scaling light radius and config settings to 1.4.0.