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If you lived your life as a light fixture « on: August 24, 2021, 01:42:52 AM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
If you decided to live your life as a light fixture, what fixture would you choose to live your life as?

If I decided to live my life as a light fixture, I would choose to be a 1960s GE M1000 cobrahead lantern with a glareshield illuminating a Southern California freeway with a 700w H35 mercury vapor lamp.

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Re: If you lived your life as a light fixture « Reply #1 on: August 24, 2021, 07:37:26 AM » Author: AngryHorse
That wouldn’t be so hot, as you would now be consigned to the scrap heap!
Oddly enough though I thought about this while on the way to work this morning, as I was passing our original GEC linear SLI/H columns that have been, (and still doing their service today), there since the early 60s, it gave me a funny feeling inside.

I’m 49 now and I drove past these columns thinking, “you guys have stood here for my entire lifetime and another 10 years on top of that”!
“You carried the linear sodium lanterns and lamps that I was so fond of as a kid, and now have happy memories of today……, and your still here lighting our town”  :D

For a moment I thought of them as sentient beings, and was happy their all still there!, of course now sadly without their linears  :-\

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Re: If you lived your life as a light fixture « Reply #2 on: August 24, 2021, 07:53:28 AM » Author: sox35
This is a fantasy, right..? So in my world, LPS lighting is still and always will be in use, and I'd rather like to be a 200W SLI/H lantern, bringing wonderful LPS light into people's lives  :sli:

Hey, it's my fantasy, ok..?  :P
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