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Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « on: July 26, 2014, 09:10:21 PM » Author: nicksfans
These are supposedly guaranteed for 50 years. If they can really last that long, consider me impressed. :o

http://www.me-dtc.com/product_line/ballasts.htm

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Re: Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « Reply #1 on: July 27, 2014, 12:10:02 AM » Author: TheUniversalDave1
In 50 years, those ballasts will be so obsolete that Maintenance Engineering (if they're still around) probably won't even care. I'd be interested to try their "premium gold endcaps" lamps, though.
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Re: Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « Reply #2 on: July 27, 2014, 12:16:24 AM » Author: nicksfans
The ME lamps I have experience with are all circa 1998. Not bad lamps at all, but their marketing has a very "snake oil" feel to it.
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Re: Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « Reply #3 on: July 27, 2014, 12:37:05 PM » Author: TheUniversalDave1
How would I go about obtaining some ME lamps or even the Holy Grail of HF ballasts in a civilized manner?
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Re: Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « Reply #4 on: July 27, 2014, 12:40:23 PM » Author: nicksfans
From what I can tell on their website, the only way to buy their stuff is to call them. An archaic business model if you ask me.
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Re: Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « Reply #5 on: July 31, 2014, 01:16:09 PM » Author: RyanF40T12
Those gold enders I believe are made by Philips.  Look a lot like these:

http://www.superiorlampinc.com/product_line/fluorescent.htm

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Re: Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « Reply #6 on: August 02, 2014, 04:10:51 PM » Author: toomanybulbs
good luck with
1 those hf ballasts lasting anywhere close to 50 years...and
2 the company being around even the next few years.
cost of ballasts/bulbs pales in comparison to cost of labor.
snake oil indeed.
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Re: Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « Reply #7 on: August 02, 2014, 04:16:35 PM » Author: toomanybulbs
smells of mlm.
that alone tells me to avoid.
How would I go about obtaining some ME lamps or even the Holy Grail of HF ballasts in a civilized manner?
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Re: Maintenance Engineering 50-year HF ballasts! « Reply #8 on: August 05, 2014, 12:49:59 PM » Author: Medved
smells of mlm.
that alone tells me to avoid.



That was, what came to my mind in the first place, when seeing their web.
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