What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « on: October 19, 2022, 04:11:36 AM » Author: 108CAM
Making my own fixtures is undoubtedly one of my favourite parts of this hobby and I've made quite a few fixtures, mostly fluorescent. I'm always throwing ideas around and would love to see some of the cool fixtures that you have made.
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	Re: What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « Reply #1 on: October 19, 2022, 09:29:52 AM » Author: Burrito
I want to recreate the Ge M250A and M400A as well as some plain square or round shoebox parking lot lights and my own LED street light
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	Re: What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « Reply #2 on: October 21, 2022, 11:29:36 PM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
I have made a homemade 2 lamp F72T12 HO preheat fluorescent tube fixture, a 2 lamp F58T8/F65T12 preheat fluorescent tube fixture, and an unfinished 6 lamp F58T8/F65T12 preheat fluorescent tube fixture. On top of that, I also made an external starter 18w PL-L preheat CFL adapter; an external starter 18w preheat CFL adapter designed for FUL18 lamps, Japanese FPL18 lamps, Japanese FDL18 lamps, and Japanese FML18 lamps. I also made a third external starter preheat CFL adapter designed for FUL14 lamps, FUL15 lamps, Japanese FUL13 lamps, Japanese FPL13 lamps, Japanese FDL13 lamps, Japanese FML13 lamps, Japanese Panasonic FTL13 bullet shaped non-integrated lamps, and Japanese Panasonic FGL13 globe shaped non-integrated lamps. I also made a 4 lamp F10T8 preheat fluorescent tube adapter as well that uses a single 470v OCV HX auto transformer ballast to run all 4 tubes in series. Here are the links to my homemade adapters and fixtures that I have posted if you want to see them: 18w PL-L adapter: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6272&pos=11&pid=217477 18w FUL/FPL/FDL/FML adapter: -with FUL18 lamp: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6272&pos=14&pid=217176 -with FDL18 lamp: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6272&pos=13&pid=217177 -with FPL18 lamp: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6271&pos=6&pid=217458 4 lamp F10T8 adapter: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6272&pos=30&pid=213519 2 lamp F72T12 HO fixture: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6272&pos=94&pid=207909 2 lamp F58T8/F65T12 fixture: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6271&pos=42&pid=201814
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	Re: What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « Reply #4 on: October 22, 2022, 01:28:46 PM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
Will your 18w PL-L lantern be magnetic preheat or electronically ballasted?
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	Re: What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « Reply #5 on: October 22, 2022, 02:57:58 PM » Author: AngryHorse
I made 2, one for a 90 watt (geared) SOX, and a catenary type one for a 200 watt linear sodium lamp! Both out of UPVC house guttering!
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	Re: What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « Reply #8 on: October 22, 2022, 03:14:37 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Also, not so much homemade, but modified, back in my SOX outside lighting days, I turned an 8 watt emergency bulkhead into an 18 watt SOX lantern! Fellow member Andy is still running this fixture now on the side of his garage!
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	Re: What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « Reply #9 on: October 22, 2022, 03:18:43 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Quote from: Michael on October 22, 2022, 03:11:32 PM Looks nice! And lightweight!  I really did consider using this on the back of the house!, I figured if I had good enough reinforcement bars to bolt it to, it would be like those early European open SOX lanterns!  , and the guttering was designed to be out in all weather anyway! Your 55 mod looks factory spec
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	Re: What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « Reply #11 on: October 23, 2022, 03:13:24 AM » Author: AngryHorse
Cool that you had illuminated street signs in the 60s!, the nearest thing to this I’ve seen here is only just starting to be used on industrial parks where the road numbers, (for example ROAD 2), are back lit with tiny red LED diodes. I’m wondering if it was because US road signs were usually mounted quite high up on a pole, whereas UK one have normally been at about 3 feet in hight where car headlights could light them at night?
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	Re: What Homemade Fixtures Have You Made? « Reply #12 on: October 23, 2022, 03:14:56 AM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
In North America, it was common to have some street signs mounted high on poles and have them backlit at night.
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.

DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.