Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1771 on: December 13, 2025, 04:39:14 AM » Author: tigerelectronics
That sounds lovely! And yes indeed, they're surprisingly efficient, and to our eyes they appear incredibly bright! I personally would absolutely love if one of my neighbors had a SOX light - I'd enjoy it!
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1773 on: December 13, 2025, 10:02:20 AM » Author: tigerelectronics
It looks really lovely there! A very nice spot for it
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1774 on: December 14, 2025, 02:58:45 PM » Author: LightsAreBright27
[ Context: Around 2015, I found a random fluorescent tube laying out on the sidewalk, and I took it to a small mall parking garage, that I remembered had an EOL tube. I decided to put the lamp I found into that fixture (with the help of a worker with a ladder). It was the wrong color, 2700k instead of 6500k surrounding it. But I was proud of my "work". I visited it every year since. When it was time for the group relamping, all other lights were eol, except the one I placed. The workers followed my lamp and used 2700k on all other fixtures. Since 2015, the mall has expanded a lot, but my original lamp was still there. They upgraded the dead fluorescent lamps to 4000k led, while let the working ones stay.] Today, I visited the mall and found my tube eol, after 10 years of overnight use.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1775 on: December 15, 2025, 11:21:56 PM » Author: icefoglights
Replaced my outdoor Christmas light timer.  The old one was a mechanical 24-hour timer that can be set in 15-minute increments.  It fits in a standard single gang wall box, which makes everything really tiny.  After a year of power outages and blinks, the time is always off, and it's pretty difficult to set accurately.  I ended up replacing it with a 24-hour 2-program digital timer.  Much easier to set, and actually what it's set for.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1776 on: December 16, 2025, 12:04:25 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
A couple days ago, looked through & re-organized some of my Christmas lights. Today, repaired 2 sets of lights (had to remove from the small tree they were in .. now I'll have to put 'em back & re-decorate it)
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1777 on: December 23, 2025, 05:30:46 AM » Author: RyanF40T12
Tonight I changed out about 20 or so EoL or near EoL F32T8s.  Most were GEs from 2018-2023 that with no surprise, did not last very long.  Had a few older Sylvanias (2001-2010 ish vintage and a few Philips from 2018-2024 vintage as well.  (Changed out a few Sylvanias at another building that didn't make it 5 years as well.  Stupid transition over to Chinese manufacturing The newer ones were all the 900 series.  The old ones were the 700/800 series.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1779 on: January 11, 2026, 10:06:40 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
I bought 2 more totes for my lamps .
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1780 on: January 11, 2026, 10:07:24 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Replaced some mini bulbs & LEDs in sets of Christmas lights as I was putting them away for the season. There's a fluorescent fixture on the deck I think the ballast went out in, so at some point gonna have to take that apart & have a look at it.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1783 on: January 13, 2026, 07:15:21 PM » Author: Baked bagel 11
Today I reported a couple of smashed 26w CFL Sylvania Suburbans on a laneway, unfortunately they will likely just have a new lamp stuck in, since the diffusers aren't made any more.
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	Re: What did you do today lighting wise? « Reply #1784 on: January 13, 2026, 10:51:59 PM » Author: suzukir122
I've got 6 2-lamp F30T12 fixtures in use in my downstairs living room. One fixture had two F25T12 Sylvania Super Savers in use. I've replaced one of those Super Savers with a full wattage Philip Alto. Not surprisingly, that fixture is much brighter now, matching the brightness of all the other fixtures around it. Should be better on that Thermo-Matic ballast as well, (for F34/F40T12 lamps) but as with all the fixtures, I will still need to keep an eye on ballast temperature. Also, finally brought in three of my HPF Trigger Start ballasts that had been sitting out in my garage for a long time. One HPF GE Bonus Line Trigger Start ballast, and two Cold Temp versions.
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2. Weightlifting/staying extremely athletic
3. Severe Thunderstorms of all kinds
4. Food and drinks. So gimme them bbq ribs
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