Saddest thing that's happened to something in your collection « on: March 18, 2022, 07:57:20 PM » Author: 108CAM
I know that this may be hard for some of you to answer but this question came to me when I accidently smashed my pink Toshiba F40T10 fluorescent tube. It could be a special bulb burning out, The cap breaking off the glass envelope, A rare fixture getting replaced with LED, or perhaps the thing that's happened to many of us at least once, accidently dropping or smashing a special or rare light bulb.
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Total incidents since joining LG: 17
Lamps accidently broken or smashed: 14
Ballast explosions/burnouts: 3

	Re: Saddest thing that's happened to something in your collection « Reply #1 on: March 18, 2022, 08:41:48 PM » Author: Mandolin Girl
For Ria and myself it has to be the loss of 'Thomas'  I wrote a poem dedicated to him at the time, and I thought it was on the message boards somewhere.  But here it is again: Our oldest lamp filled up with smoke Poor Thomas has gone and broke There was the sound of a crack Now we’ll never get him back At nearly 70 years old They’re no longer sold At the time of writing he was our oldest blub but now we've got older ones in our collection.
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	Re: Saddest thing that's happened to something in your collection « Reply #3 on: March 18, 2022, 10:13:09 PM » Author: Lumex120
I found out today that the garage I had to keep all my streetlights in over the winter flooded and then froze. I can't get to them right now, but most of my street light fixtures ended up at least partially underwater so their ballasts are probably ruined. Kind of thinking I'm just going to quit collecting after this, I'm still a bit shocked it happened.
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	Re: Saddest thing that's happened to something in your collection « Reply #5 on: March 18, 2022, 10:50:37 PM » Author: Lumex120
That and the 50w HPS one was high enough up on a shelf it was alright, the rest of them though I don't know.
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	Re: Saddest thing that's happened to something in your collection « Reply #7 on: March 19, 2022, 12:20:26 AM » Author: thelightingman
The ballast wires became exposed on my vintage 3 lamp preheat F40T12 light, now I have to replace all of the wires and that's gonna be hard. I also have to replace the capacitor in the ballast as it also went bad. I plan to put 2 of my 1970's vintage rapid start ballasts in it for now as I don't have any other preheat ballasts. It sucks but when I have the time, I am gonna repair the ballast.
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I think HPS, MV, and MH rule! Ban LED instead!