Japanese preheat circline fluorescent chandelier during brownout « on: November 03, 2025, 08:22:42 AM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
If you are curious as to what happens to fluorescent tubes on preheat fluorescent ballasts during brownouts, I found a video of a 5 lamp Japanese FCL30 preheat circline fluorescent chandelier where 3 of the lamps are flashing and 2 of them remain lit: https://youtube.com/shorts/od6WJgxVssM?si=kdzd8gTCPUql1oqN The collector made the claim that the flickering was caused by insufficient line voltage being supplied to the ballasts and lamps after wondering if they were EOL.
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	Re: Japanese preheat circline fluorescent chandelier during brownout « Reply #1 on: November 03, 2025, 10:28:56 AM » Author: dor123
Here is the lamps at my ceiling during a brownout: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3GTc4zSl8M 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvel7ON-Jsg
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