Yesterday, 3 things...

Most of my fluorescent ballasts(along with some other fluorescent parts/stuff) were stored in a spare bedroom (and some in the attic).
I moved what was in that bedroom to the basement(where it'll likely stay til it rots away or someone throws it out)

Re-organized some of my Christmas lights(related to the general cleanup project where the ballasts/etc got moved)

Refreshed the sequence(control) & audio files on my Christmas light display controllers (Raspberry Pi's). Just gonna use the same "set" as last year(with the exception of removing one patriotic song that I'd put in that "set"). I've found that its good to replace/refresh all the files, especially if changes have been made...and they have, as the controllers were used for a couple other holidays during the year. FPP(software running the controllers) has bugs & tends to corrupt files sometimes...

My Son Comfort (a HPS lamp with 60-something CRI) came in! I'm very curious to see the difference between an SDW-T and the SON Comfort. I have the entire lineup of sodium tech now: LPS, conventional HPS, improved CRI HPS, and 'full color 85 CRI' HPS. Such a versatile technology.

Now to get the ballast for it. There are a few SON street lights at two different scrap merchants, and if they're cheaper than buying a brand new HF driver, i'm gonna buy one of those.

Obnoxiously the DPD parcel guy THREW THE BOX IN A PAPER RECYCLING BIN FROM SOME FOLKS A BLOCK AWAY. Like... What if the recycling bins got emptied before the kind soul over there checked their letter box to find the 'we dumped the box from someone completely unrelated in your recycling'. Those people did get a note, but still profoundly stupid.

No notification to me whatsoever that the package was delivered to someone else. They could also just have decided to keep it. Or throw it away because not everyone cares about helping people.

My god. DHL is unreliable with regards to delivery days, and PostNL is rock solid but very expensive - but DPD is not making a good first impression here...

Found a Line Material Industries Dusk To Dawner at a salvage store in Spokane, Washington. It's in excellent condition for being nearly 60 years old. It came with a GE H175DX39 lamp, and a big HX ballast...could be an 250W/H37.

Nice find, Eric! I've seen couple of Dusk-to-Dawners out in Eastern Washington. The one you found was probably owned by Avista at one point.

People always complain that bikes are so hard to see at night. I'll show them!!!

(i found a source for 150w gear for the SON Comfort. I couldn't get some rusted screws loose so i had to take the entire thing with me)

@Laurens- Hehe I have seen pictures of large post tops on the back of bikes too!

Nice find, Eric! I've seen couple of Dusk-to-Dawners out in Eastern Washington. The one you found was probably owned by Avista at one point.

Ian, they were very common in Eastern Washington when I was growing up, irregardless of the serving utility. I've wanted to find one of these for some time, but didn't want to pay eBay prices for it.

25W e14 base incandescent in my living room window burned out. Replaced it with another modern Airam branded one.

Also I finally managed to order and install exit light above my front door. I installed wiring for it few years ago when I had big renovation in my apartment but didn't have enought right kind of fixtures back then. Now all three places I had wired with DC feed has exit fixtures.

Today I got extremely lucky!
I was plugging in a high power electronic ballast  for hids,  when I accidentally put the output into the mains instead of the input. Luckily, while putting it in, one strand of one wire touched another, shorting them. So, the fuse in the socket blew, but the ballast was unharmed.

Went to wholesale this afternoon for new LED battens for tomorrow morning’s lighting job, some cleaning and repair work in our paint booths. 😎

Today I got extremely lucky!
I was plugging in a high power electronic ballast  for hids,  when I accidentally put the output into the mains instead of the input. Luckily, while putting it in, one strand of one wire touched another, shorting them. So, the fuse in the socket blew, but the ballast was unharmed.

Actually, in theory some electronic ballast variants have a chance to survive such miswiring. MOSFET bridge at the output will serve just as a diode bridge charging  DC bus capacitor to ~300V. Nothing bad will happen if the controller will not attempt to open MOSFETs thinking the circuit is just got in the normal working mode. 

A while back i saw some decorative mains powered filament style CCFL lamps at a specialty store over here. Old stock from the 2000s, i reckon. I left them, i have no real purpose for them. But it kept itching, so i eventually went back and bought two. They produce a pleasant very warm light, comparable to a dimmed incandescent lamp, or a long life, shock proof one that operates at a lower temperature.
Subjectively, the 7w CCFL produces about as much light as a 2, maybe 3w led lamp.

Check them out here: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=8586
I will take better pictures later. I gotta clean out the bulbs on the inside because it seems to have something on the inside of the glass.