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Lamps => Modern => Topic started by: Powell on November 07, 2012, 11:42:21 AM

Title: Indonesian VS Hungary made F15T8 Reveal
Post by: Powell on November 07, 2012, 11:42:21 AM
Indonesian lamp is of much inferior quality.  Most of them had the etch ( er stamp) faded or smudged and some had poorly installed end caps.  I compared the lamps in the 15 watt "baby shoplight" and the Indonesian bulb "color" is nowhere close to the Hunararian one. It's MUCH warmer and pinker.

So much for quality. 

I tried taking a picture but they look the same in the picture. 
Title: Re: Indonesian VS Hungary made F15T8 Reveal
Post by: Ash on November 07, 2012, 12:25:28 PM
As i see it GE Hungary is basically Tungsram, so quality to expect

For the picture dont picture the lamps. Instead partition the view (as in : shoot into 2 rooms) each lit with a lamp, to see how the colors of stuff in there are rendered
Title: Re: Indonesian VS Hungary made F15T8 Reveal
Post by: SeanB~1 on November 07, 2012, 03:04:32 PM
Indonesian and Thailand quality is far better than PRC product, they do last quite well, and are a decent lamp. The Hungarian, the Dutch, the French and the Polish lamps are by far the best. I have a few of each, and use the cheaper Indonesian/Thailand lamps as general purpose lamps, keeping the quality lamps for special applications. As the one lamp in a fixture goes EOL I either group relamp and change to the new daylight from warm white ( keeping the working ones as spot replacements for others of the same colour temp) or do a spot replacement with old tubes.
Title: Re: Indonesian VS Hungary made F15T8 Reveal
Post by: Powell on November 07, 2012, 04:22:03 PM
The Indonesian made GE lamps are far worse than some of the Chinese ones I have.  Most of them do NOT come close to the 7500 rated hours, but doing CLOSE to 5000 at 24/7. And then there are the 3 or so I had to return as the end caps fell off.