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| What's the loudest light fixture you have ever heard? Mine are:
- A 175W MV yardblaster starting up
- An 8' F96T12 fluorescent in our
boathouse
- A HPS GE M-400A2 FCO in Seattle
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| The Loudest I've ever heard was a Lithonia Wallpack that you could hear from 50 to 75 feet away.
2nd place is tied with an HPS GE M250R1 FCO and an unknown MH canopy light (both of which were just a few blocks from each other).
The loudest fluorescent fixture would have been a ACME F96T12 striplight with a shorted ballast capacitor.
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| I have a couple of Moberm under cabinet F15 strips in my basement entrance that are as loud as metal halide high bay ballasts. I can hear them from outside with the door closed. They have some Robertson slim chokes. In fact, when I still used ear plugs on the lawn mower, I used the ballast noise to test them as they were expanding in my ears. In case you’re wondering, I now use over the ear protection (with a headband) so the ballast hum now has no ‘purpose’ but is not disturbing either so no real motivation to change them.
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Rich, Coaster junkie!
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32, 250 watt Thorn low bays firing up in unison in our sports hall at school  |
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| There's a parking lot full of 1kW MH B2218s that gets pretty loud. In terms of the loudest light I have, I think the Cooper UCD is mine. Even though it's NOS and only 70w HPS, the OE ballast in it buzzzes loudly when I power it up.
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| There is also a 310W HPS GE M-400R2 FCO over by an Arby's in South Hill.
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| It gotta be either a former Hubbell MHS floodlight or a MH shoebox at a Tilton Kohl’s.
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| 400W or 1000W MH floodlight fixture at a Best Buy (now gone, replaced by LED)
70W HPS ceiling fixture at a bookstore (still there as of today, although the two next to it were retrofitted to LED)
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For me it's a tie between My 1000w MH/MV 1987 M-1000 or My 1000w HPS GE A-1000 Powr/glow Both have ballasts that are alarmingly LOUD .  |
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HID, LPS, and preheat fluorescents forever!!!!!!
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| What is the loudest fixture you all have in your collections?
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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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What is the loudest fixture you all have in your collections?
I had an old fluorescent ballast that was noisy as frick! It was a Chinese one from the 80s or 60s, I got it from an old fluorescent fixture from the trash. |
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| Prolly loudest thing Thing I ever heard and I am hearing impaird too. It was a F96T12 fixture at a Anquie shop in
Blanco, Texas, It so raspy sounded like waaewaaawaawaa
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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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What is the loudest fixture you all have in your collections?
Crouse-Hinds VMCK-100 100W mercury vapor fixture. |
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HID, LPS, and preheat fluorescents forever!!!!!!
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| My 60w SLI/H preheat fixtures that I have sound pretty loud.
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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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My 60w SLI/H preheat fixtures that I have sound pretty loud.
I also have mercury vapor fixtures that are pretty loud when I am using ignitors on them when I run metal halide lamps in them especially during hot restrike. |
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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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