Fired up our newly acquired NOS GEC Trulite 125W MBF/U lamp 

Today at a church building I swapped out about 60 Sylvania 3000k T8s for Sylvania 4100k T8s.  The 3000k's were too dim for the environment they were in.  The 4100k's do a much better job lighting the area.  I'll use the 3000k's at a few different buildings where the carpet and color tone are lighter and will do better in that area.  I still have quite a few more tubes to swap out but waiting for more 4100k to arrive. 

Found a 30 watt American made Verilux tube at New Bransfels restore.

Today I went to another church building and took 2 cases of the 3000k T8s that I removed from the building yesterday and replaced a bunch of EoL or near EoL 3000k's.  Mostly Philips, but a few Sylvania.  Also replaced a bad GE T8 ballast.  There are a few more in this building but ran out of time.  It's about 70 miles away so I'll get back there next month or so. 

We are planning to put up a couple of little 6W T5 fixtures in the bedroom as reading lights. Mind you we have been saying that for months... 

We are planning to put up a couple of little 6W T5 fixtures in the bedroom as reading lights. Mind you we have been saying that for months... 

The queens of procrastination have struck again and they are still in the box...

Saved a 175w westy lifeguard, and a 175w ballast..

Built up a new test/display board for both 80W and 125W mercury lamps:

I'm fixing a Feit Electric CFL (mostly for fun), from what i can tell the resistor fuse randomly died for no reason.

Edit: Turns out the driver may have more issues than i thought.

Today at once church building i swapped out a bunch of 3500k T8s for 3000k T8s.. I want to use up the 3rd Gen Sylvania Ecologic 3000k T8s as quickly as I can so thus the swap out. 

At another building I replaced 2- 26 watt 4 pin CFL ballasts that were bad.  I also replaced 3 EoL 50 watt HPS bulbs.  got more work to do at this building.  A few 400 Watt MH bulbs that light up the steeple, 3 150 watt HPS parking lot bulbs, some cove lighting (strip lighting) F32T8 4100ks, and a few bad ballasts.  Ran out of time today. 

Finally received the ballast we've been waiting for to light our 1,000W Thorn Kolorlux mercury lamp, so we've built up a display board to light it up.

It certainly gets warm 

Finally received the ballast we've been waiting for to light our 1,000W Thorn Kolorlux mercury lamp, so we've built up a display board to light it up.

It certainly gets warm 

That it does, it's warmer than when I'm in there cooking.!

I installed a LED upgrade package to my new 2018 Nissan Turbodiesel XD. They definitely light up the road a lot better than the stock halogens, and I do appreciate the fact that they match the stock LED headlights and running lights.

We broke our oldest (verified) lamp. 

R.I.P. Thomas 

What was it?

A 1950 GE 1000W incandescent, see here for a picture of it lit.

I was trying to screw it into the lampholder and used just a tad too much force, and the glass cracked