Here’s a refreshing change of pace. It’s almost the new year, and I’m sure some of us gallery members are looking back on 2022.

Here’s kinda a tough question… what do you think should be the 2022 bulb of the year for L-G? To be more specific, which bulb (include make, model, wattage, technology) do you think was talked about the most amongst members? Why was it so unique? Should it be the /R Lifeguard? Old fluorescent tubes? Unusual sodium lamps? Whatever it may be, what do you think should be the bulb of year?

Our 280W SOI/H lamp, of course 

Here it is Unlit and Lit

Mine is probably going to be the Westinghouse H38-4JA/W that a few of us got here.

I’d say the Ken-Rad /Ws and Westinghouse /Rs that popped up recently. Another candidate would be BT25’s 400 watt westy /W that went for like 200 bucks on the bay.

Thanks for the responses so far everyone, let’s try to get more in! The top 3 most mentioned lamps in this thread will be placed into a ranking list, the highest one will win the title. But before we do that, let’s hear more submissions (if this makes sense so far).

Already mentioned lamps:
#1 - 400W Ken-Rad /W
#2 - 400W Westinghouse /R
#3 - 100W Westinghouse /W
#4 - 400W Westinghouse /W
#5 - 280W GEC SOI/H
#6 -         MAT
#7 - 150W Sylvania Unalux Clearbander
#8 - GE H3000A9

Hmm, maybe MATs?, I’ve seen a fair few of them this last few months?

The thing with the MATs is that to my knowledge they were all trades from other collectors and not new discoveries. If someone found a MAT/V that would 100% be a candidate.

I don't understand that. What does where you get a lamp from have to do with it..? Or are we only talking about new discoveries that nobody has ever seen before..? That's going to be a very short shortlist 

Whatever that is, we’ll throw it in the list.

I think another good candidate that comes to mind might be the late 70s ULX-150 Unalux 150w HPS clearbanders too.

That’s a good one, added.

One more bulb, then submissions will be closed! Make sure it’s something good.

 The GE H3000A9 I got recently !

Okay, here is all the submitted lamps below. 

#1 - 400W Ken-Rad /W
#2 - 400W Westinghouse /R
#3 - 100W Westinghouse /W
#4 - 400W Westinghouse /W
#5 - 280W GEC SOI/H
#6 -         MAT
#7 - 150W Sylvania Unalux Clearbander
#8 - GE H3000A9

Now I need members to vote on which bulbs, the top 3 bulbs will earn the title of bulb of the year, with 1st - 2nd - 3rd place rankings. The way to submit is just replying to this thread below.

400W Westinghouse /R gets my vote!

For my lamps of the year, I would go with my Panasonic FTL13EX-L, FTL13EX-N, FGL13EX-L, and FGL13EX-N lamps because they are highly unusual decorative non-integrated CFL lamps intended for the Japanese market and are intended to run on F15T8 preheat fluorescent tube ballasts for that country.

Here is a picture of them all grouped together:

https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6271&pos=4&pid=221270

In addition, I would also like to have my Japanese NEC FL10EDF-SHG fluorescent tubes as well because they have a unique afterglow feature that allows them to remain illuminated with a faint glow after being turned off.

Here is a picture of these tubes in operation and after being turned off:

https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6271&pos=20&pid=213907

Lastly, I would also like to include my 1986 Osram Dulux L 36W/21 CFL lamp that I imported from Germany because it features a 4 pin base that is largely obsolete known as a G32Q-1 base rather than the typical 2G11 base seen on most lamps of this type.

Here are pictures of the lamp lit up and unlit:

-Lit up:

https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6271&pos=36&pid=209934

-Unlit:

https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6271&pos=8&pid=218616