What lighting did your school classrooms use? « on: December 07, 2020, 11:58:57 PM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
Does anyone have any memories of what type of lighting their school classrooms used such as magnetically ballasted rapid start F40T12 troffers, electronically ballasted F32T8 troffers, incandescent schoolhouse pendants, Silver bowl saturn ring incandescent pendants, etc.?
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #2 on: December 08, 2020, 11:09:31 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
Most of my classrooms were magnetic ballasted T12 fluorescent with the exception of my 4th grade school . It was built in 1919 and had incandescent pendants .
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #4 on: December 09, 2020, 01:48:34 AM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
Quote from: wide-lite 1000 on December 08, 2020, 11:09:31 PM Most of my classrooms were magnetic ballasted T12 fluorescent with the exception of my 4th grade school . It was built in 1919 and had incandescent pendants . What did these incandescent pendant fixtures look like?
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #5 on: December 15, 2020, 02:13:05 AM » Author: LightsoftheWest
I have F32T8s in the classrooms/hallways, F32T8 HO highbays in the gym, along with some MH highbays between the basketball hoops, PL fluorescent recessed cans by the doorways, with eyeballs shining on the walls in the main foyer, MH Shoeboxes in the parking lot, and RAB Entra wall packs on every building.
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #6 on: December 15, 2020, 03:08:42 AM » Author: RyanF40T12
Graduated from High School in 1995, so everything at my schools up to that point was T12 for fluorescent.  The gyms had high bay MH and MV.
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #8 on: December 16, 2020, 01:55:46 AM » Author: funkybulb
My first grade had  2x2 troffers with westinghouse black ender U bend flourescent   My Sec grade i transfered school   It had 2 x 4 rapid start toffers    3 rd to 5th grade transfered again    It had louvered slimelines with V channel       Being a deaf ed classroom it ate slimeline   Lamps much faster than rest of class riooms in school     So I get enjoyed lot eol shows.    Now my middle school years the 2 x 4 troffers     One day we played celing darts with pencils    One of celing tile became weak and gave away      Well 3 lamp preheat half piper were under there!       This back in the 90s  some time in pass they had     Add celing tiles in cause of noise in fight path of      SAT airport.        Now my high school years  first two years V channeled   Louvered slimelines and F40 troffers.      The last two years i went to my home school    And gradurated from  had all sort of cool stuff     HO F96T12 in vocational classroom,  half piper    In the buissness wing,  slimeline in math and english  Wing.  The Gym had incandescent high bay     And some typical boring 2x 2 troffers,  when all this   At end when I gradurated all this got demoed and i kinda  Cried as my mom, dad, my aunts,  and my self went to  This school and memories now gone!   All this happens  In 1998,  so rebuild with T8 instant start and now it led lit.
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #9 on: December 16, 2020, 07:58:11 AM » Author: CreeRSW207
All of the schools in my district have Philips LED troffers but the middle school hallways and bathrooms still have fluorescent.
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #11 on: December 16, 2020, 09:34:15 AM » Author: Bulbman256
The days i do go there its all been retrofitted to led now, its a shame as its an old building that had a lot fo lighting goodies in it but a few straglers here and there remain.
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #12 on: December 16, 2020, 02:38:07 PM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
Elementary school, louvered slimlines/T12 bi-pin and Mercury vapor gym lights Middle school, louvered T12 and wrap around. Sodium and halide gym lights. High school, T12 and T8 troffers, wrap arounds and louvers. T5 high bay s and metal halide gym lights.
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	Re: What lighting did your school classrooms use? « Reply #14 on: December 16, 2020, 06:24:29 PM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
Quote from: Desultory on December 16, 2020, 05:02:24 PM All 3 schools elementary, middle, and high school had troffers that used 4 cool white T12 tubes each. The elementary school had floodlights for it's ballfield that used coated 1000w MV lamps. Both the middle and high schools still have OV-50s in the parking lots. The MV lamps were replaced with retrofit HPS lamps during the early-mid 90s. Just for interesting information the elementary and middle schools had mechanical synchronized clock systems with Simplex clocks. The bells were also connected to these systems. Did these OV50s use Sylvania Unalux 880w lamps or Iwasaki 940w lamps?
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