I upgraded to an iPhone 15 earlier this week. I had the iPhone SE 2 before, which I got in late 2020. It still technically worked, but it didn’t have much memory and it seemed like every time I wanted to take a picture or video it was full no matter how much I deleted.

Plus it was finicky and a lot of webpages just wouldn’t load properly and copy and paste didn’t work all the time. With the memory it also wouldn’t download any apps, I’d had to delete all of them except for YouTube and Pandora.

I just kept using it but finally I just got tired of fussing with it and being unprepared to take a video or picture when I wanted to.

Originally I was planning to get the iPhone SE 3 which was just a newer version of what I had, but I decided to splurge instead on this one and I went ahead and got 1 TB of memory which was likely way overkill, but I use a lot of apps and things so I wanted it to work for a long time. Plus since my computer died a few years ago I use the phone now for all my web browsing and video watching so something with a bigger screen is nice. The iPhone SE 2 I had was actually smaller than my first Samsung Galaxy it replaced.

I ordered it open box on eBay which made it cheaper, it was supposed to be new condition, but it had two nicks on the corners which don’t bother me because it would likely get that anyway.

Probably could’ve gotten an Android and been fine but I’m used to iOS anyway. What I don’t like is all the connectors change, my old one had a Lightning port and this one has the USB-C so I can’t use the same cables or headphones. And for some reason my wireless charger doesn’t work on this. I also miss the button on the bottom which takes getting used to not having and the screen and flashlight adjustments are different on this.

Also this does still seem to work fine with the Bluetooth on my Ford Taurus from 2016 just like the old one and my old Samsung.

I wont be able  come out there until next spring maybe
 It  been long time last  time  Ive seen ya.   

[ Context: Around 2015, I found a random fluorescent tube laying out on the sidewalk, and I took it to a small mall parking garage, that I remembered had an EOL tube. I decided to put the lamp I found into that fixture (with the help of a worker with a ladder). It was the wrong color, 2700k instead of 6500k surrounding it. But I was proud of my "work". I visited it every year since.
When it was time for the group relamping, all other lights were eol, except the one I placed. The workers followed my lamp and used 2700k on all other fixtures.
Since 2015, the mall has expanded a lot, but my original lamp was still there. They upgraded the dead fluorescent lamps to 4000k led, while let the working ones stay.]


Today, I visited the mall and found my tube eol, after 10 years of overnight use.

I have a casual cozy style, with solar powered dim fairy lights on the smaller shrubs and plants, with the main tree having diffused colored incandescent/LED lighting. On the inside, purely warm white incandacent fairy lights.
I have a row of 6ft to 7ft palm trees bordering my garden, and I plan each will get its own solar fairy lights. The reason I like the solar lights is because they are very cheap and will work throughout the year.

You're good! it was confusing at first but I did end up figuring it out.

@NeXe Lights
The ballast would be working harder than it is meant to. Whether or not this will happen to the point of it overheating in uncertain.

It would definitely not cause immediate damage to the ballast, so monitoring the ballasts temperature during operation is the best way to proceed. If the ballast starts getting too hot, cut the power. You almost certainly won't cause any damage to the ballast if you maintain reasonable temperatures.

Leaving this to run continuously at high temperatures for days/weeks/months on the other hand, that would probably shorten the lifespan of the ballast, possibly causing failure.

So, would running a 400W PSMH lamp on a 400W HPS ballast cause the ballast to overheat? I'm not worried about the lamp; it's a cheap Chinese-made Westinghouse lamp. I'm more concerned about damaging the ballast.

Glad to hear! Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance. I would love to see it once it is all back together!

I would have expected the same, but do not fully understand the process.  I remember from my time in making SOX lamps at GE that every day there would be a few defects from the exhaust machine with high CO2.  They were usually caused by poor connections to the four electrode leadwires, which were then not activated at the full 5.0-6.6A for the required duration.

In case of no activation of one electrode, the C02 evolution was of course huge : the lamps would strike with the correct NeAr colour, and within a few seconds turn blueish white and extinguish.  But in case of partial activation some lamps seemed to be able to run almost indefinitely with a pale purple-pinkish discharge.  Perhaps as you say the CO2 was quickly broken down, the O2 would be gettered by the sodium and hot tungsten electrodes, and the carbon deposited in solid form.  But their discharge colour remained notably different, and these lamps were easy to detect because they ran insanely hot.  Perhaps the more stable CO was formed and some quantity of that could remain?  Of course it’s also possible that if a cathode was not fully degassed there may be some residual nitrogen contamination.

We must also remember that the first cold cathode discharge tubes of Daniel McFarlane-Moore were in fact based on fillings of pure CO2 - but indeed that quickly dissociated and complex systems were required for gas purification.  Same for the original CO2 laser invented by Bell Telephone labs.  The problem of gas breakdown was not fully solved until Sylvania’s invention of the improved CO2 gas-transport laser, which quickly became the standard design.  That completely avoids dissociation of the CO2 by mixing it with helium and nitrogen, and keeping the gas continually moving at high flow rates through the high power discharge.  But none of these features exist in the small F8T5 type emergency fluorescent lamps.  I only know about their unusual gasfilling from the manufacturing specs, but could not find any patents and the people who would have developed these all retired a long time ago.

UPDATE! She lives! she works, it's alive!