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Glamox MIR T8 fluorescent gear tray wanted! « on: March 28, 2025, 04:29:59 AM » Author: tigerelectronics
Hello fellow lighting nerds! I acquired a glamox MIR G1 fixture. It’s a very rugged and awesome light fixture, and I’d love to actually put it into some
Use. However, it has a 5000 LED gear tray kit installed, I’d like to convert it to fluorescent because fluorescent is what I enjoy most. However, I’ve been looking all over the internet, and unfortunately can’t find any T8 HF kit for it anymore. If anyone has one that I could buy, I’d greatly appreciate it. Input voltage does not matter. I have access to T8 HF drivers I could install if the voltage is incorrect.

I need the T8 2x36W kit.

I’m located in Sweden :)

Hope to hear from you all soon!

Edit: I have been thinking about this for a few days now, and I have come to the conclusion that trying to find a fluorescent gear tray for one of these is going to be really difficult, as these fixtures are fairly uncommon except for in very heavy duty industrial and off-shore applications. So this has made be think about converting my existing gear tray to fluorescent myself instead. All it would take is removing the LED module, which is just screwed on, and of course, removing the LED driver. All one really has to do to convert one of these to fluorescent, is just to make some holes to fit some tube sockets, install a electronic driver, and I will have converted it to exactly the same specs as the original fluorescent version from GLAMOX would have been. The only difference being that I would have to use tombstone style tube holders instead of their
vibration-proof push-in sockets (spring loaded). In my experience, standard tombstones more or less survive vibrations just as well... Not having Glamox style tube sockets is not neccesarily such a big deal, as the spring loaded ones can be kind of a pain to deal with especially if you like swapping tubes often like I do. It is very easy to break the pins off from tubes when trying to remove and install them on the glamox push sockets, as oftentimes the spring tension is ridicolously hard to overcome, and then you automatically use excessive force to push the tube in and then you bend the pins or break them, I have had it happen multiple times in my Glamox GIR fixtures.

I might make some posts about this modification once I do it, some of you might enjoy it :)

I want to keep this thread open still. If someone does run across or have one of these gear trays, I will happily take it anyways, since that is the proper way to do things :P

« Last Edit: March 30, 2025, 02:46:02 PM by tigerelectronics » Logged

A young (22) swedish lighting collector who especially loves flourescent fixtures and tubes. I love industrial flouros the most. I also like HID. Let the lights be free'd from Err-Eee-Deee technology, pretty please!

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