@BT25 - agreed... though I believe this example was a "Comfort" lamp (/D /M).

Today I tested my circuit that increases 12V to 100V and it turned out to be reliable. The reason I did this is that the mains current in my country is 230V and I have 130V incandescent bulbs in my bulb collection. Unfortunately, 110V adapters are expensive in my country, so I used a ready-made circuit board that converts 12V to 100V. I think it can last up to 1500W. Now I can light my 120-130V incandescent bulbs. 

I took a moment to simply relax and just be in one of my fluorescent lit spaces and not do anything special, just taking it easy and enjoying the wonderful light

I didn’t do it today, but I did some things related to lighting this weekend:)

I almost always do something on the weekends related to lights, hehe.

But this weekend one of the LED fixtures in my workshop room in the shared workshop failed. It has been EOL for a long time because some of the LED sections have stopped working a long time ago. So I installed 4 new fixtures in the hopes of improving the light spread a bit as having just two LED fixtures before didn’t spread the light all that well, sure it was bright but only in two areas of the room.

So I installed 4 new fixtures, supposedly they’re meant to deliver 5200 lumens but… they surely can not be delivering what they claim, because even with twice as many fixtures, it feels darker in the room

It could be due to the fact that the optical design is much different, and unpainted floor also doesn’t help.

So yeah I’m a bit disappointed to be honest, but I don’t feel like redoing everything right now because the wiring became nice and neat. Fixture placement is also very nice. So I’ll leave it alone for a while at least, but yeah, it never feels nice to install stuff and end up disappointed.

If the place wasn’t grid powered I’d slap in some proper magnetically ballasted fluorescent fixtures

But I’m not allowed to do that sadly.

Tested a new old stock Thorn Järnkonst PV236 tonight it has never been used, I got it BRAND new! missing its original box, but it has never even been hooked up to any sort of power It even came with two brand new old stock philips S10 starters which I thought was neat! I gave it a pair of Philips TL-D Xtra tubes, and it fired right up Nice and super bright, Helvar L40A-P ballasts, which are some of my favorite. They are very kind to tubes, often making them last a really long time

The other day (Saturday), I replaced the GE F40T12 C41 (CWX) fluorescent lamps that I had inside my 1983 Lakewood shoplight with some Philips Cool White Plus F40T12s. The old GE lamps were super dim, but the new triphosphor Philips lamps are nice and bright!

Awesome! It’s always super satisfying to see fluorescent lamps come back alive with more light output than before lovely tube choice!