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Green glow under blacklight « on: August 19, 2017, 09:59:20 AM » Author: High Intensity
Hello.
I noticed that some of my florescent lamps seem to glow a greenish color under a blacklight bulb.
The odd thing is, none of my other lamps do it. The only lamps that do it are all of my GE reveal linear florescent tubes and a relabeled Philips F40T12 Cool white florescent tube. [datecode being 6E so i think the lamp was made around may of 1996]

I wonder if anyone else has seen this as it's quite interesting.

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Re: Green glow under blacklight « Reply #1 on: August 19, 2017, 10:01:22 AM » Author: Mercurylamps
Hmm that is unusual indeed. Perhaps part of the phosphor is very sensitive to UV light more so than other components giving the green glow? ???
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Re: Green glow under blacklight « Reply #2 on: August 19, 2017, 04:39:09 PM » Author: Ash
What color designation are they ?
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Re: Green glow under blacklight « Reply #3 on: August 19, 2017, 07:02:10 PM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
my philips alto does this, I've noticed it when i swap it from my fluro fixture for the blacklight tube, it always likes to glow green, its usually sitting right next to the fixture after i swap it out, my old sylvania merc likes to glow a pink colour aswell, but my philips merc does not, some of my CFL's do it aswell, they glow a skyblue colour
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Re: Green glow under blacklight « Reply #4 on: August 19, 2017, 10:13:26 PM » Author: High Intensity
My philips alto 13w florescent PL lamp seems to glow a faint blue color under blacklight.
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