71   Lamps / Modern / Re: What is the worst LED bulb you’ve seen?  on: March 29, 2026, 08:44:46 PM 
Started by Lightingeye60 - Last post by xelareverse
For household use, the last of the made in USA Sylvania bulbs. Not only do they have a short life span, but they have a design flaw that makes them dangerous. The envelope with the LED filament arrays is glued to the base. That glue is right where the heat from the driver and the heat from the LEDs meet which causes the glue to fail. These will then fall out of the fixture leaving only the driver and base portion behind. So if used in an open fixture, they can fall right out of it and shatter on the floor. I'm lucky that I haven't had any shatter (they bounced instead) but I've had a couple fall out. I've removed them all from use.
 72   Lanterns/Fixtures / Modern / Re: Cree XSP Series discontinued...??  on: March 29, 2026, 08:40:14 PM 
Started by CooperOVZ - Last post by Baked bagel 11
The Traveyo is also no longer available in the USA.
 73   Lanterns/Fixtures / Modern / Re: Cree XSP Series discontinued...??  on: March 29, 2026, 08:03:13 PM 
Started by CooperOVZ - Last post by LightsoftheWest
The RSW Series has now been taken down... Makes me wonder if that's discontinued now, too.
 74   General / General Discussion / Re: What happens to the old ballast during LED retrofits?  on: March 29, 2026, 07:13:24 PM 
Started by Multisubject - Last post by wide-lite 1000
 Every retrofit I've seen has had the original gear left in place with the wires cut (usually really short) .

 This goes for the 400w MV to 150w HPS retrofitted cobras I got from a hotel/chinese resturant , The 1000w MH shoebox to LED (same place   and my 700w MV OV-50 which was retrofitted to a giant CFL.
 75   Advertisements / For Sale or Trade / Re: WANTED OSRAM FLUORA 77 and Philips Graphica tubes in working state  on: March 29, 2026, 04:34:34 PM 
Started by Jovan - Last post by RRK
You have an advantage to live in Europe, I don't believe all stocks around already are depleted. Look at some electrical distributors, I'd look in Germany and in some oddball places like Estonia, or so...

 76   General / General Discussion / Re: What's up with my Metal Halides?  on: March 29, 2026, 04:33:57 PM 
Started by suzukir122 - Last post by suzukir122
I forgot to mention that one of my USA made GE HALARC 50w QMH lamps in my garage has also shut off during an orange flash, as well as one of my Sylvania 50w QMH, (back when I had my Sylvania 50w lamps in my wallpacks) during an orange flash. Makes me wonder why this happens. So, both the magnetic 50w wallpacks and electronic GE Self Ballasted PAR38's have done this at some point in time.
Very interesting seeing those brilliant orange flashes in my garage Metal Halides, far more interesting than the Par38's pink flashes... but so weird seeing that the Par38's and the Wallpacks are doing these brilliant flashes so often today.
 77   Advertisements / For Sale or Trade / Re: WANTED OSRAM FLUORA 77 and Philips Graphica tubes in working state  on: March 29, 2026, 04:27:21 PM 
Started by Jovan - Last post by Jovan
I can't find any data on Osram site for classic Fluora and they are phasing out classic Lumilux tubes amongside 90CRI ones. :( In Serbia hardly to find but I will try and notify you.
 78   General / General Discussion / Re: What's up with my Metal Halides?  on: March 29, 2026, 04:10:06 PM 
Started by suzukir122 - Last post by sol
Must be some kind of environmental thing, or due to the current conditions of the electrical grid. I have noticed the same, as well as how long preheat fluorescents take to start. When I start more than one at once, most times they can take a long time or a short time, but all are either fast or slow. They are especially slow in the first hour after a somewhat long power outage.

As for a flash that extinguishes MH lamps during warmup, I’ve only had it on a new GE 39w G12 and after about 30 starts, it now rarely flashes at all.
 79   General / General Discussion / What's up with my Metal Halides?  on: March 29, 2026, 01:06:13 PM 
Started by suzukir122 - Last post by suzukir122
So this morning I had to do some mandatory work to The Genesis. (Had to empty out my oil catch cans, rearrange one oil catch can, and attach a new fuel
hose to that same catch can as well. Also had to refill the coolant in my radiator and reservoir tank.)
This required me to turn on my six Metal Halide 50w Wallpacks. (USA made GE HALARC 50w QMH.) When I turned them on, pretty much all of them (except for
the lone Caster 50w QMH) flashed violent reddish or violent orange during warm up, which is rare. Normally only one or two of them do this.
During installation of my new fuel hose to the oil catch can, I had to use a hair dryer to help expand that rubber hose, which... required me to shut off
my Metal Halides, since that hair dryer uses a lot of watts/amps. (Only one receptacle is in that garage.) After I was done, I unplugged the hair dryer
and fired up my Metal Halides again... same thing. Lots of brilliant reddish/orange flashing during warm up time.
After I was done with everything, I shut down the garage and went into my apartment. In my bedroom, I turned on my 20w CMH track lights, and my two GE
self ballasted PAR38's.
Although my 20w track lights warmed up without flashing, both my GE self ballasted PAR38's violently pink flashed, and one of them shut off during this,
and restriked a few minutes later.
So... what's up? Why so many brilliant flashes? This may be a dumb question, but does this have anything to do with environmental conditions?
 80   Advertisements / For Sale or Trade / Re: WANTED OSRAM FLUORA 77 and Philips Graphica tubes in working state  on: March 29, 2026, 02:22:13 AM 
Started by Jovan - Last post by RRK
I think Fluora tubes are still not rare today in 2026, just unpleasantly expensive. Look in some oddball European locations like Estonia. Graphica may be really hard to find.

 
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