Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #135 on: January 29, 2018, 07:53:14 PM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
I was in one of my abandoned buildings today, decided "Hey why not grab a fluro tube" So I searched around the building for a fixture with a tube that was not blackend, and happend upon one, It looked completely brand new, So I snagged it and biked home with it only to find out I hauled home a dud.... neither cathode had continuity ... My assumption is that it lost lost vacuum and when the building was active and they switched the light on, the cathodes oxidized and the lamp died, and they never replaced it because they assumed that the fixture itself was bad... so the tube remained there....
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #136 on: February 04, 2018, 09:44:29 PM » Author: CEB1993
I replaced the bulbs in the garage door motors at my parents’ house. I put a Philips 72 watt halogen in both (2 garage doors) to stay below the 75 watt maximum limit. At 1120 lumens, these are basically 75 watt incandescents. I tried a GE LED, but the ballast was too wide and would not screw in far enough to make contact and light. These Twice the Life Philips bulbs should last a good long time
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #137 on: February 08, 2018, 09:42:21 PM » Author: RyanF40T12
Today I replaced 4 bad Universal Triad F32T8x2 ballasts that served well for about 12 years.  Replaced with Osram F32T8x2 ballasts.  I also replaced a few F32T8 EoL tubes in the same area.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #138 on: February 14, 2018, 01:20:40 AM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
Starting to Reformat my HID galleries, Since how I originally had them is a somewhat disorganized mess.. It was starting to get on my nerves, I've cleaned My album "Mercury Vapour" up a bit tonight, I may continue tomorrow after homework... then I will move onto the "High Pressure Sodium" album.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #139 on: February 14, 2018, 11:55:30 PM » Author: RyanF40T12
Today I went to Hobby Lobby with my dear sweet old widowed mother and was more interested in the F32T8 lighting than I was all the stuff in the store.  This store used to be part of a Wal-Mart that moved to a new location long ago.  It has a TON of 2-bulb F32T8 fixtures, all with GE Starcoat 3500k tubes.  many were mercury starved and a good number had faulty ballasts.  Only a handful were EoL.  Glad I don't service this building.  Uggh.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #140 on: February 16, 2018, 08:41:10 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: RyanF40T12 Today I went to Hobby Lobby with my dear sweet old widowed mother and was more interested in the F32T8 lighting Is that the Hobby Lobby  @ County-Line & Quebec?
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #141 on: February 18, 2018, 02:32:58 PM » Author: RyanF40T12
Quote from: xmaslightguy on February 16, 2018, 08:41:10 PM Is that the Hobby Lobby  @ County-Line & Quebec? That's the one.  It will soon be moving up and across the street to where Sports Authority use to be.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #142 on: February 19, 2018, 12:37:19 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: RyanF40T12 That's the one.  It will soon be moving up and across the street to where Sports Authority use to be.  I thought I recognized it from the pic...especially that particular ceiling full of lights! Didn't know it was moving, but I also haven't been in there since the beginning of January. I was in that Sports Authority sometime right around its final days. Even have a pic of the streetlights from its parkinglot .lol. (believe thats on GOL though, not here)
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #143 on: February 21, 2018, 08:26:16 PM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
Bought this bulb!! Gonna put it in service in my parents security light... replace the chinese junk up there... Hopefully it has a good long life up there, I will be sure to light er up and take photos on ground level before I put it up in the fixture for hopefully good. Reason I bought it is because I got my bank statement in... and I got a good amount of cash left... certainly not enough to spend on much... but $16.50 won't do too much harm. They may not appreciate my hobby much! but they'll thank me later when they don't have to climb their old asses up that radio tower to change a lightbulb Lmaooo. Fingers crossed that it arrives intact....
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #145 on: February 21, 2018, 08:42:14 PM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
Quote from: Lodge on February 21, 2018, 08:32:54 PM Owen you know they won't climb up the radio tower, they will just end up calling you later in life, and you also know you will enjoy it .. Probably honestly.... But the thought is still funny! and yeah I likely would enjoy it!
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #146 on: February 22, 2018, 01:47:06 AM » Author: Beta 5
Quote from: Beta 5 on January 28, 2018, 06:42:01 AM Not today but yesterday evening, I tried various GLS wattages in my Coughtrie BB.15 bulkhead. The max wattage for the BB.15 is 150w, I normally use 60w, but I tried a clear 100w, and it appeared much brighter. After that I tried a 150w pearl lamp, which was hugely bright compared to the usual 60w, but it got hot too! I normally use 60w, as its mounted fairly low down, and doesn't have to light up a massive area, as there is a 10/13w PL-C bulkhead a few meters away. The 60w pearl GLS lamp went EOL the other day, having done about 1 year and 2 months use, so I replaced it with another 60w GLS, but in clear.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #148 on: February 24, 2018, 12:10:14 AM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
Starting to up update my Incandescent album this includes replacing old low quality files and updating descriptions to formatting I currently use, Also will probably sweep back through the Mercury album eventually and try ot take less yellow pictures... kindof my trademark at this point the yellow is...   Here are the files I replaced/updated so far: GENERAL ELECTRIC 6000LM 120V 405W GROUP REPLACEMENT GENERAL ELECTRIC SPOTLIGHT 1500W 120V BASE DOWN TO HORIZ. PHILIPS 130V 300W MEXICO EXTEND. SERV. KEN-RAD 300W 120V PHILIPS 200W 130V CHINA You can distinguish the new and remaining old files quite easily.. Some of the old files will remain because the lamps they depicted ceased to be   , or the images may look cool and I wont delete them, alot will be swapped out though. Do ya'll think this is better compared to the older images?
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #149 on: February 24, 2018, 01:39:09 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
I am at a meetup of Christmas-light guys...
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