I think most of the lights shown here are NOS. Also, you might have some luck making a lower offer on the MV fixtures since they have no value to anyone besides lighting collectors nowadays.

I have a lithonia lighting 400 watt probe start flood light that lights for 45 seconds or so then goes out... is this the eol symptom of the older bulb! Stays dark for 1 min then tries again..?

I got some 18W Satco Amber LED cobs that I really enjoy. I have them on the front of the house and they are surprisingly very bright. They are very similarly colored to the LPS I use in my garage, as well as the amber LED's I have in my attic windows. It makes the house match very well at night from outside.

CPE never sells its old luminaries when they replaced it, they simply just throw it away! 

I wouldn't trust any other ballast to run my t17s unless designed to do so! 

What other ballasts could I use to run these monsters? I don't have any gear for them. This would be my second encounter with a T17 and first time owning a pair!!


I need two new end caps and some cement though because the original end caps on one side of each tube are totally destroyed...

When I discovered them under the rubble my heart sank lol....

It was in Texas, back in the 1990's. 

I don't use Instagram, and personally like the old logo way better...but   might as well keep it up to date.

The fixtures with starting issues were standard F40T12 RS magnetic fixtures. I remember U-bent F40T12’s had that metal stripe on them. Linear F40T12’s don’t have the metal stripe. So the aluminum foil is my homemade metal starting stripe. 😂

I have never heard that transformer story before, where did you find it? It frustrates me that sue-happy idiots like that have to ruin it for everyone.