Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1815 on: April 12, 2026, 02:07:49 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
I just bought a N.O.S. 2016 1000W Wide-Lite F-series reflector housing assembly . All I need now is to buy one of the many 1000w Wide-Lite ballast assemblies on eBay and I'll have a complete fixture !
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1816 on: April 15, 2026, 07:36:13 PM » Author: suzukir122
Just bought two Philips F20T12 Cool White (non-Alto, grey end capped) lamps, as well as one Sylvania GTE Cool White F20T12 lamp, from Ebay... both for my upcoming light tables for my upstairs loft. The remaining Philips F20T12 will be used as a replacement lamp.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1818 on: April 18, 2026, 11:06:18 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
Today I went on a roadtrip to pick up a Infranor 1000w MH flood light I found on Marketplace . The drive was roughly 2 hrs. each way . Photos soon . This thing is absolutely HUGE !!! It's the biggest floodlight I own !
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1819 on: April 19, 2026, 02:25:48 PM » Author: suzukir122
I forgot to post this, but just bought a GE Ecolux Cool White F20T12 a couple days ago. *Might* be purchasing a GE Halophosphate 3500k F20T12, but more than likely may skip out on that purchase. There's a good chance I may use that Ecolux and one of my F20T12's from Philips, for my light tables instead... and then I'll use my Sylvania GTE and the other F20T12 as replacements. Maybe. lol Really interested to see how that GTE performs with the cold temp Trigger Start ballast though. Today I did an inspection on all of my living room F30T12's... checked all the ends for any additional end blackening. All ends have a slight bit of fair-weather end blackening, but I've noticed that one of my Sylvania Supersavers has a slight bit of "spot" end blackening developing... very normal of Sylvania lamps to do this after a good amount of use has been put into them. One of my Sylvania F30T12's in my loft, is also doing this as well, on the etch side. At this point though both situations are very slight... not dense. My lone Sylvania Cool White F15T12 also has a very slight bit of end blackening occurring as well. I still have yet to post that lamp on Lighting Gallery.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1820 on: April 20, 2026, 11:10:25 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
Today I removed the Original ballast and caps from my Infranor Series 85 flood light as it is 277v ONLY . I plan of keeping the original gear as part of the collection as it is in pristine shape , WAY to nice to scrap or sell ! The original ballast is HUGE and made by Sylvania .
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1821 on: April 21, 2026, 09:40:34 PM » Author: suzukir122
Just obtained my two F20T12 Grey end capped Philips lamps, and my Sylvania GTE lamp, all three Halophosphate Cool White. Swapped out both of the LPF Trigger Start ballasts that came with the F20T12 fixtures I've got, for the cold temp versions, successfully. I was in the middle of comparing the brightness levels of the LPF and HPF ballasts at one point though, but that was short lived... found out the hard way that not only are both of my F20T12 Philips lamps used, one of them was actually right at EOL. The end blackening did not indicate this, but then again, both lamps have electrode filament shield guards. The lamp that went EOL was actually on my HPF Trigger Start ballast as it did so. Rough start up, with very bright filament glow as soon as the lamp fired up successfully. The filament hotspot glow disappeared for a while, so I automatically assumed it was a broken filament. Wrong... the filament was still intact but completely spent... so, complete hotspot movement occurred, the end blackened completely, and the lamp went EOL. Brilliant orange flashing at the bad end as expected... but it dimmed down to start-up stage, just like any other HPF Rapid Start ballast. Not much flash with this lamp. Switched the EOL lamp over to the LPF ballast and not surprisingly, it just sits there and rectifies... nothing more. To my surprise, the brightness level of the LPF Trigger Start ballast was almost comparable to the HPF cold temp Trigger Start ballast, but of course, the HPF one was still a tad bit brighter.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1822 on: May 11, 2026, 05:13:18 PM » Author: suzukir122
Alright... so some bad news... during my brainless search for one of my GE PAR38 self ballasted CMH's, I searched for it in one of my closets. I Picked up an EOL LED bulb that had been sitting on my shelf in the closet... I took that out of my porch light a little while ago. The LED bulb slipped out of my hand... and fell on the Sadelite desk lamp that was sitting on the floor in that closet, shattering one of my PL-L 36w tubes. It's been a while since I've broken a lamp... so there you go. It happened. I finally broke one of my fluorescent lamps. I will never let that happen again. EVER again. Side note: my newest light project is already complete. I'm running four GE 23w PAR38 self ballasted CMH's in my bathroom, as up-lighting, with the help of 4 rotational sockets I found on Ebay.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1825 on: July 25, 2026, 03:29:20 PM » Author: suzukir122
@Laurens...  That is now the highest wattage CFL I've ever heard of thus far.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1827 on: August 06, 2026, 09:35:34 PM » Author: suzukir122
Slid my two balcony lights in my living room further apart from each other. Such a slight change, yet, the result is actually much better than I thought it would be.
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2. Weightlifting/staying extremely athletic
3. Severe Thunderstorms of all kinds
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1828 on: August 10, 2026, 01:33:53 AM » Author: suzukir122
Just bought a 5-step ladder, and a Therm-O-Matic X ballast. I've got a plan to replace both the ballasts in my F30T12 two lamp strips on my balcony, to Therm-O-Matic X ballasts, hopefully. I've been eyeing that fixture to the right, and it does kinda look like the light output from it isn't as high as I want it to be, compared to all of the others. That fixture contains one of my first non Therm-O-Matic 446-LR-TC-P ballasts I've bought, and even when I bought it new old stock back in 2022, I noticed that light output wasn't as good with that ballast. This has been driving me crazy, so I'm replacing it with a slightly used Therm-O-Matic X ballast I found on Ebay just now. The other balcony light contains the most used ballast of all 11 fixtures in my living room -- tons of burnt spots on the ballast label. Though the ballast works fine and lights up lamps fairly well, I'm gonna go ahead and replace that ballast too, as soon as I buy another Therm-O-Matic X ballast. I'm trying to limit purchasing Therm-O-Matic... (the ones without the "X,") since those ones may contain PCB's.
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Interests:
1. Motorcycles, Cars, Women, and Lighting (especially fluorescent)
2. Weightlifting/staying extremely athletic
3. Severe Thunderstorms of all kinds
4. Food and drinks. So gimme them bbq ribs
Lighting has ALWAYS been a passion of mine. I consider everyone on here to be a friend