I am wondering if anyone recognizes the brand or model of this particular outdoor globe light. This is a fixture that used to be mounted outside of our house, but it was removed before we moved in. I would like to try and find another of the same fixture (or one that looks similar) to install in the same location, but I can’t seem to find one quite like it.

The fixture is designed to be mounted atop of a pillar. It resembles a typical flush-mount outdoor globe light fixture, but it has a large cylindrical base instead of a smaller, more tapered style one. The cylindrical base appears to have a bronze or brass finish to it. The shade is probably 8” or 10” dia. and has a white/milk finish. The fixture was likely manufactured in 1989.

Does anyone recognize this light fixture? I apologize that the image quality is so bad, it was taken from an old Google Street View capture.

All the modern incandescent bulbs with the two brand names are imported by other companies in China. They aren’t the same as they used to and they are not necessarily higher quality than the cheap Chinese bulb. GE faced the same fate as Sylvania did. The last General Electric incandescent and fluorescent light bulb factory in Ohio closed in 2023, and the Hungarian GE plant was given back to Tungsram in 2018 and Tungsram went out of business in 2022. That’s why everything labeled GE says “manufactured for GE lighting”, GE does not make them. In fact, GE has been removing the GE name from more of their products. GE current is now just current, their professional light bulb site is just LED.com. They replaced the “GE’s best incandescent lighting line” with “our best incandescent lighting line”. GE has also lately been seeing bulbs without any logo on the box.

GE does not make light bulbs anymore, nor does Sylvania.

Also, the 15s and the 25s are exempt and are not banned until at least 2028 (this new act could potentially ban low wattage incandescents). I guess, they are going LED now. I have not read online about it now have I’ve seen GE 25W equivalent LEDs in the A19 shape. Everything I find is incandescent.

Sylvania faced the same fate around 2020, their light bulb plants closed, and everything began getting imported by other companies. At the same time, in 2020, Savent got GE, but it didn’t start out as disastrous until more recently (around 2023 is when it started). Even the quality of the GE LEDs is going down. Everything GE is downhill. Anything fluorescent, incandescent, or HID from GE now is terrible quality, as well as any of the el cheapo GE LEDs or their all glass style bulbs. During COVID was when all the lighting manufacturers became getting worse and worse in quality, and it has never stopped since. The only decent thing GE still makes is their reflector LEDs and the 15,000 hour snow cone bulbs, and the quality even on those is going down.

Sylvania seems to be better with the glass LEDs than GE but their low end stuff is awful and is much worse than the GE equivalents. All the latest Sylvania traditional sources (incandescent, fluorescent, HID) are not good quality either. Sylvania seems to have better quality control with the latest fluorescents than GE (they go mercury starved less often).

Wow, thats very cool!

I see quite a few South African Beka BekaLanes. It says there are Australian and New Zeland lights, though I didn't manage to spot them.

Well, most metal halide lamps depend on the sum of light radiated by multiple elements in the fill to create the final color. There are exceptions like 8000K white lamps containing only dysprosium (and cesium usually, but it is not active) and  green lamps containing only thallium, and these mostly do not drift.

As the lamp ages, mainly two processes related to color shift happens.

First, light-emitting metals somehow leave the arctube cavity. Some drift through the walls to the outside. Some got trapped in the walls. As these atoms have different properties (atomic mass, atomic size, electrical charge) they do so at different speed, so final balance of metals changes and so does the color.

Next, usually arctube temperature increases. Walls blackening means less of applied energy escapes the arctube and more got trapped inside. Also, aging electrodes lose their properties and become less effective emitters, raising arctube voltage and so, power. As different halides have different evaporation temperatures, this causes a change of their parital pressures balance and so lamp color drift, too.

I recently got one of those lamps that are used to check if US bills are counterfeit or not. The lamps are 6" long, and I initially though they were F4T5s, but it seems that is not the case. They are etched "Model UVF861", and their outer diameter is .6875", which is T5.5, not T5, and they have matching T5.5 end caps. However, on the bottom of the device, the sticker says "Use 8 watt type F8T6". Now these lamps are the originals as far as I am aware, and they are not T6 nor are they T5. I have yet to take current and voltage measurements of the lamps, but I assume they are dissipating more than a normal F4T5. The original ballast powering them is rated for F6T5, F8T5, and F13T5 lamps, not F4T5s. Next time I am home I will take good pictures and upload them.

They do get decently hot, is the tube bigger just because of that? Again I have yet to measure and compare specs to normal F4T5s.

Has anyone seen this before? I would think these devices are fairly common but I haven't seen any on LG.

What is the first time in your life you’ve seen an LED screw-in light bulb?

SOX lamps tend to last much longer than average. They used to put those in tunnels and they lasted essentially forever.

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Planned art installation with initial 440 lights from 81 countries at the place I pass every day!
Actually a park with street lights instead of trees. They'll be all converted to LEDs but mimicking original HID and incandescent sources in shape and colour and changing the light intensity programmatically.
The infrastructure is prepared to accept new lights.
I'll definitely post some photos once it opens.

I'm also interested in an SOX/LPS wallpack of this size, as it's perfect for outdoor residential applications, and even inside for a display. Along with that, I have a variety of fixtures and lamps I'm willing to trade.

We all know mercury vapor lamps often shift to a greener hue, LED street lights shift to purple as the phosphor wears off, and HPS lamps often shift to a whiter light than before when closer to the end of life, but for some reason, MH lamps color shift to various colors, and I’m not sure why.

Some shift to green (like a mercury vapor bulb), some shift to almost an warm white color, some shift to pink, some shift to a bluish daylight color, and I’ve seen some even shift to an orange high pressure sodium type color (except much dimmer than an HPS lamp). Why is it so various?