@lightsofpahrump, while we were gathering our stuff and leaving, I don't remember seeing any orange flashing either, but I was more focused
on my friends and keeping up with them as they were leaving. (Can't believe I'm saying that, since Metal Halides firing up is mandatory for
me to watch... I have no problem standing there to watch them start up/warm up. At all. But these were friends I have not seen in a few years,
so I wanted to keep catching up with them... one of which is moving back to her country, Columbia.

I got mine from @Concentrix last Summer. I wonder if they still have something left. It was electronic though.

imho blue light hazard is fake. It was created by some marketing department somewhere, I think, probably to sell blue blockers.

the screen you are reading this on right now

Some people still got CCFL backlit monitors or CRT screens!

Hello everyone ! I know I have another thread on slowing down fans, but that project never came to light. I am now trying a different variation on the same theme. I would like to find a small motor that would be able to drive a 12 inch (approx) fan at maybe 45 rpm or thereabouts. I would not be opposed to make a belt drive unit, although direct drive would work as well. The idea is a noiseless fan to gently encourage hot air from the second story to make its way downstairs. The fan would be in a place where no one would bump into it so a grille would not be necessary on account of the slow speed. As far as speed, this would be similar to Ecofan units typically used on wood burning stoves. I know Ecofan offers replacement motors and I am wondering if this would be something that could work. This application would require 24/7 operation. The only thing is I would have to figure out the voltage that the Ecofan module sends to the motor. Otherwise, I have thought about turntable motors. In any case, I don't think I will be able to find the motor I am looking for at 120V so some kind of power supply would be required.

Many thanks !

Regarding ecofans - once you figured up whether or not it is ac or dc, you can just ramp up the voltage on a variac/ bench supply till you like the speed.

@xmaslightguy, Colorado banned fireworks too? That's really unfortunate, but at least you still got to see a fireworks show! Fireworks are
so awesome and so worth videoing.
That strong storm to the left was definitely setting off fireworks of it's own, so it was epic seeing fireworks and the thunderstorm literally
right next to each other. That was so awesome... Saturday, July 4th, thunderstorm, fireworks... the best moment of 2026 so far.
Also got to see the Metal Halides for the baseball field (I think it was a baseball field but not sure) fire up. Extreme mass start up... but
unfortunately I didn't get to stick around to watch THOSE fireworks, since I was more focused on continuing to hang out with my friends whom
I hadn't seen in a few years. But I absolutely will stick around, and even record, those Metal Halides firing up next year after the fireworks show.

I used to see those basically every week when I was in the rec league. Extreme mass high watt MH sport lighter start ups. Pretty cool to see. Although they were probe start, so pretty tame -- no flickering or flashing.

I know the bar is 6 feet under on this sort of thing, but it is nice to see the 25,000 hr life rating.

Yeah modern fluorescents have a tendency to go mercury-starved early in their lifespan when used in a freezer.  It was never an issue with the old full-mercury lamps.

These days freezer is a good place for LEDs!

Yes, I do this too. I’m almost always on the lookout for HID fixtures, and know where most of the nice ones are, but it’s always fun to discover ones that I’ve overlooked, or explore areas I’ve never been to.

It’s a shame when a very old fixture gets unceremoniously replaced with another LED or removed altogether.

Still there are a good number of various types of HID fixtures on private buildings, yards of homes and in parking lots, even though all of the MV fixtures on public roads have been replaced now and the HPS fixtures still are dwindling.

The ballast in arm fixtures like the GE and AEL were my favorites as a kid, a few abandoned ones remain. My local power company only disconnects the fixture if the customer doesn’t want it any longer, so quite a few old out of use NEMA heads and bracket lights remain up but long unused.

The weird thing I've seen before a small fluorescent lamp get put in a freezer (where it would fail to vaporize), but then when it came back out, the mercury never revaporized and the lamp was pink afterwards!