I forgot to post this, but just bought a GE Ecolux Cool White F20T12 a couple days ago. *Might* be purchasing a GE Halophosphate 3500k F20T12, but more
than likely may skip out on that purchase. There's a good chance I may use that Ecolux and one of my F20T12's from Philips, for my light tables instead...
and then I'll use my Sylvania GTE and the other F20T12 as replacements. Maybe. lol
Really interested to see how that GTE performs with the cold temp Trigger Start ballast though.
Today I did an inspection on all of my living room F30T12's... checked all the ends for any additional end blackening. All ends have a slight bit of
fair-weather end blackening, but I've noticed that one of my Sylvania Supersavers has a slight bit of "spot" end blackening developing... very normal
of Sylvania lamps to do this after a good amount of use has been put into them. One of my Sylvania F30T12's in my loft, is also doing this as well,
on the etch side. At this point though both situations are very slight... not dense.
My lone Sylvania Cool White F15T12 also has a very slight bit of end blackening occurring as well. I still have yet to post that lamp on Lighting Gallery.

Aight so, I was scrolling through @trojmiejski’s files and I was thinking about the Polish Highmasts, I like them a lot. Than I thought, isn’t the Schréder RX in H, X, Y, U or Star formation basically a Highmast? A Belgian Highmast? What do you guys think?

RXS H4

https://the-lights-of-belgium.odoo.com/web/image/5987-da6c0ce0/RXS%20H4.webp

RXNB ✲ 12

https://the-lights-of-belgium.odoo.com/web/image/5994-5fd8a5e3/RXNB%20%E2%9C%B212.webp

RXN X8

https://the-lights-of-belgium.odoo.com/web/image/5992-2d6a47af/RXN%20X8.webp

RXN Y6

https://the-lights-of-belgium.odoo.com/web/image/5989-8f5867cc/RXN%20Y6.webp

RXN ✲8

https://the-lights-of-belgium.odoo.com/web/image/5995-72d3ae37/RXN%20Star%208.webp

I was just walking from the shops and back with my mum, and I was 3 quarters of the way home and I felt the ground shake  I live in the countryside… there aren’t many big vans or lorries around and the nearest quarry is near Steyning, several miles away, and I’m not sure if it’s as active as it used to be. My only guess is an earthquake, but I did feel a bit light headed after so, maybe it was just lack of Something or other.

Bit nervous…

Pink metal halide lamps often have tin halides to filter the indium line making the lamp redder.
Why orange metal halide lamps like the BLV ones don't have tin to filter the blue and green mercury lines so that the color would be oranger?

https://youtu.be/rnr13AHzzuQ

Enjoy the HPS lamps, neon signs, the incidental mercury, and a couple hundred incandescents used to light a bridge in a fancy way. Must've been special long life bulbs  you'd be swapping lamps on the daily.
The monument for peace at Dam Square was (and still is, probably - the other decorative lanterns were metal halide at least at the beginning of this year) lit by metal halide.

Pretty impressive camera. Most of Amsterdam's roads were lit with high pressure sodium lamps, but despite the bad color rendering of HPS lamps, the video still looks great.
In reality it looks more amber, of course. The videographer really did some work to make it look as normal as possible.

My old van still has the original , working AM/FM 8-Track stereo .

I sure do. My car has a CD and a cassette player which both work perfectly.

 I have TONS of purchased music CDs as well as cassettes . I even have some 8-Tracks !! I don't mess with downloading music and the one burned CD my brother made for me years ago is degrading badly ! I also have TONS of 45's and a decent amount of LP records .

 Today I went on a roadtrip to pick up a Infranor 1000w MH flood light I found on Marketplace . The drive was roughly 2 hrs. each way . Photos soon . This thing is absolutely HUGE !!! It's the biggest floodlight I own ! 

 I'd say the seller found a lamp in the sleeve and figured like any other person who knows nothing about lights  that it was new . If you know nothing about a HID lamp , how are you gonna know if it's bad or not ?