Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #1 on: January 25, 2024, 06:42:51 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
Currently , 90% of mine is either in plastic totes or leaning against the wall out back .
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #2 on: January 29, 2024, 11:12:08 AM » Author: LightsAreBright27
Mine is currently hidden under my bed. I don't have proper fixtures to display them yet (I cut them up). For some reason, I don't like part of my collection away from the rest (maybe intense paranoia).
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #4 on: February 03, 2024, 08:52:46 AM » Author: wide-lite 1000
All of my lighting collection is right out in the open . As I've told people before , everyone collects something !!
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #5 on: February 03, 2024, 09:46:52 AM » Author: Mandolin Girl
@ Cool Beans, you mean to say that you have flat surfaces with nothing on them.??  That's an unknown concept here...
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #6 on: February 03, 2024, 11:53:56 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
There's a bunch of fluorescent lamps & Christmas lights in the basement, more in various closets, fluorescent fixtures in the attic & crawlspace, & the better ones in a bedroom. Essentially wherever there is (well, was) a empty place to store them...basically in other words I have far too much crap. .lol. Honesty would like to sell off some of that stuff (mostly Christmas lights) since I'll never use it all.
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #7 on: February 03, 2024, 11:55:50 AM » Author: Mandolin Girl
Good luck with that, having just seen how eBay are cracking down on some listings...
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #8 on: February 03, 2024, 12:07:41 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Yep true .. I wonder if it'd flag sets of incandescent Christmas lights because they are  'incandescent' ? But no worries there: I don't do eBay for selling anymore .. ever since they changed that policy where you have to use your bank account instead of PayPal (even before that it pretty much sucked as a place to sell, in the last couple years before that change the amount of listed items I had that actually sold slowly shrank away to basically zero.) ---------- I don't do Craigslist(which I believe is just a US thing) for selling because of the flighty people on it. Oh and FB Marketplace. I won't do that one either (I know you'd get that one because ... FaceBook .lol. )
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #9 on: February 03, 2024, 12:14:55 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Nearly all of it is in the loft, including the test rigs, but don’t get used anymore! (I use to use them nightly)! The only ones I keep in my room are the ones in full time use, (these are all LED/CFL) though.
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #10 on: February 04, 2024, 09:46:42 PM » Author: Highway125
The majority of my collection resides in my bedroom and closet with some larger fixtures being stored in my garage until I can get better storage for them. A lot of my lamps are there also. Eventually with the more assets I find and collect, I will migrate some to my storage space I have which currently houses a majority of my other hobby, vintage electric fans! A lot of my lights I have in my room are also NOS, so they are in their factory boxes and I sometimes pull them out to run and use. What do I do with them mainly? well, enjoy them for what they are! not every day someone can say they have a Westinghouse OV-25 Silverliner running on their bed! I also just enjoy the entire idea and technology of HID especially now with the decline of it and the rapid uprise of LED implementation. Another reason is preservation!
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #12 on: February 07, 2024, 04:50:10 PM » Author: Lcubed3
They are scattered around my room, in tidy, organized piles. Since it's mostly fluorescent lamps (CFLs in particular), I have them grouped by starting method. I also put the globe lamps in a section together. My incandescent lamps are on a shelf I built above my bed, and part of the linear fluorescent collection is in the supports for that shelf. The rest of the linear fluorescent stuff is on a high shelf near the ceiling of my room. The HID stuff is grouped by the door on the floor, and the fluorescent ballasts are behind that collection on a cabinet near the floor. Basically, it's tidy. Edit: I use a lot of them day to day, and most of my collection is for replacements. I don't like to keep lamps which I don't have a fixture for.
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #13 on: February 17, 2024, 10:28:06 AM » Author: Maxim
Most of my collection is down in my (unfinished) basement in a far corner. I have two shelves of overflowing lamps (not really a rhyme or reason to anything there) as well as boxes which hold my streetlights. Project lamps/fixtures are typically stored underneath my workstation (foldable plastic desk), and test fittings are on top of my desk. Also, all of my boxless NEMA Heads and streetlights are stored near my workstation. Some of my "quick access" collection is in my room; a couple of GTE Sylvania Energy Pincher 90W lamps, a few fluorescent fittings (limited to 2ft and below) as well as my SBMV lamp. Honestly, a lot of stuff here needs to go to the basement; I just keep forgetting or simply pushing off the task for later. All of our general-use LEDs (older Feit and Sylvania) are stored in the garage. It's a larger-than-normal storage area than most people have for regular-use lamps, but it's nice having equivalent replacements for older, more obsolete LEDs (take Feit's indestructible BR30 lamps that were recently cheapened).
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	Re: What do you do with your collection? « Reply #14 on: February 19, 2024, 02:25:39 PM » Author: LightbulbManiac
Well, my collection is split into two parts. Bulbs (with box) that I have bought from the old stock (around 400-600), and bulbs (without their box) that I have gotten used (around 300-500), either from recycling, either from someone, either from abandoned places. The NOS collection is all hidden in my closet in 6 plastic boxes stacked on top of each other (3 in each column and 2 rows) and because the retail store has changed the design of this specific plastic box, I don't wanna buy the new plastic containers because they don't match at all with the current ones. This has resulted in 2 very big lamp & box mountains on top of each row. And this has blocked my access 3/5 of my collection. I am planning to get rid of the plastic boxes and add shelves to my closet to keep the lamps there safe, and easily accessible of course, and without the danger of the weight of the bulbs on top causing damage. The "finds" part of my collection is stored in 3 big plastic boxes with wheels under my bed. It is very practical for me, although I don't like having bulbs on top of each other because sometimes they get scratched (especially coated bulbs).
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