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| After looking at trying to acquire some FUL CFL lamps for my collection, I noticed that most of them are BL lamps intended for use in insect killer fixtures. Why is it that the FUL CFL lamps are more popular in insect killer fixtures than other types of CFL lamps?
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.
DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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| Lot of those lamps were popular in 90s and 2000s
They were commonly use in LOA jelly jar type of thing
With plastic defuser. I see these around apartment complexes
Mostly . But normal CFL killed them off as it was cheaper to
Buy new fixture and a 3 dollar CFL than to replace the FUL lamps.
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No LED gadgets, spins too slowly. Gotta love preheat and MV. let the lights keep my meter spinning.
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| The FUL lamps preceded modern CFLs. I think even before the Philips SL launch, Interelectric in USA was making FUL T6 lamps with separate ballast adaptor.
Needless to say they were not very successful, and a 1980 leaflet I have from them lists also the UV and special colour applications that they were clearly trying to target. For fly traps they work especially well due to the large diameter tubes and flat irradiating surface, better than normal CFL. But in general lighting they began to die out following the 1981 introduction of the Philips PL-S lamps and similar types.
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| In some cases, some FUL fixtures are able to be easily retrofitted with modern Japanese FPL CFL lamps due to the fact that Japanese FPL lamps and FUL lamps share both have G10Q bases found on circline fluorescent lamps.
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.
DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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