I have quite the pencil hobby; Along with lights and buses. Lighting and pencil hobby is slightly stronger than bus hobby though.

So I am curious, what pencils do yall typically use?

At school, I typically use a Dixon Ticonderoga #3H HARD pencil. I only discovered I had a few recently, so I tried #250 out and it was great, it could go for over a day without needing to be sharpened. So I got some more over the weekend and tomorrow will be #316's first day in use!

Just found a tunnel version.
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CFLs. Any type. Next is linear fluorescents. Not incandescents, because we never really transitioned out of that era in this house.

I am getting some information from Sylvania's 1988 Large Lamp Catalog for the US and I noticed some odd things as circled in the photo...

The "CWK" seems to simply be an error, though the K and X buttons are nowhere near each other on the keyboard.

The /D30 colors just seem to be straight-up odd...

I'm looking for the night light, or just the lamp, as seen in this video from Big Clive: https://youtu.be/QmaqagBNsMQ

For now, i'm only looking for offers from within the EU due to stupid flat rate customs fees (set by the various package handers, not by the state) exceeding the value of the night light.

A good number of magnifiers use 22W T9 circline lamps on manual preheat circuits.

High pressure sodium, mercury vapor, incandescent, and early LED.

Just thought I'll share mine.


Around first or second grade, we had an annual day celebration, in which we had to dance. During the practice, which was outdoors, everyone including me danced perfect. But on the actual performance on the stage, I was so mesmerised by the big incandescent spotlights, that I just stood there and didn't even dance! I also noticed some holes on the stage, with light poking through. After the performance, instead of waiting with the others, I just ran to see the understate room. I did see lots of extra floodlights, as well as fluorescent battens for prop lighting. I was scolded by the teachers, but atleast got to see the lighting.

First grade was like an EOL lamp dessert. The whole year there was one fixture with a bad ballast in the class room, and one lamp that burned out the whole year. I did get to see it burn out though, during English class! It had a fairly normal EOL show...

The next year though, tons and tons of lamps went EOL in that classroom...

Perhaps that is what is going on here too...

It would be funny if both ends went EOL, the less blackened end does have a decent amount of blackening...