Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #15 on: January 09, 2018, 04:57:35 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Only one near me is Greenwood Lighting LTD, their not exactly a hardware store, nor are they a wholesaler, their just a lighting shop, but you can get most HID lamps off the shelf there, my 140watt SLI/H came from there back in 1994.
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #16 on: January 09, 2018, 05:38:36 PM » Author: Rommie
Quote from: AngryHorse on January 09, 2018, 04:57:35 PM Only one near me is Greenwood Lighting LTD, their not exactly a hardware store, nor are they a wholesaler, their just a lighting shop, but you can get most HID lamps off the shelf there, my 140watt SLI/H came from there back in 1994. Well that's the first I've heard in a long time of HID being sold retail here. I do remember a couple of backstreet surplus stores in London selling them occasionally back in the 60's when I was a little'un, but nothing since then.
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #18 on: January 09, 2018, 08:37:44 PM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
175W MV | 70W,100W,250W HPS | 70W,175W MH at lowes and mynards  175W,400W MV | 70W,100W,150W,250W,400W HPS | 70W,175W,400W MH at ACE hardware  175W MV | 50W HPS at Lakeview hardware  175W,400W MV | 70W,100W HPS at the Springfield Doit center  175W,250W MV | 70W,100W,250W HPS | 70W MH at micks hardware    Mercury includes clear variant at ACE, Lowes, Mynards, and The Springifield Doit center  all bulbs at all stores are Sylvania with exception to SOME of the halides which are philips  Restore was boasting a single Functioning 75W Sylvania Merc the other was dead. still have yet to find gear for it.  the junkyard(s) and abandoned facilities have all manner of wattages of any HPS,MV,MH I could think of... and they're free (heh) so i usually snatch up bulbs from those places rather than buy expensive bulbs from stores... but sometimes I will if they mark down the price or I really need a certain wattage I could not manage to find at the yard.. you can find alot of older HID bulbs from Abandoned buildings and junkyards...... and alot of em still work... and work well... thats where I got my Clearenders...
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #20 on: January 10, 2018, 04:27:53 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Quote from: MissRiaElaine on January 09, 2018, 05:38:36 PM Well that's the first I've heard in a long time of HID being sold retail here. I do remember a couple of backstreet surplus stores in London selling them occasionally back in the 60's when I was a little'un, but nothing since then. Yeah, its an odd one?, their shop is like any other lighting shop, with most stuff on display for home and light commercial use, (like hotels and the likes), they have some fine chandeliers in all sizes, from living room to great hall use!! But they also class themselves as `lamp distributors`, and you can pretty much get SOX/SON/Halides and mercury lamps off the shelf, (although I had the last of the 50watt MBF stock a while ago)!
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #21 on: January 11, 2018, 12:06:15 AM » Author: BT25
Local Hardware store is Home Depot (or Agent Orange as a friend of mine likes to call them). All they have is the Chinese made Philips lamps which are a shame when compared to what they made 30 years ago.
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #23 on: January 11, 2018, 08:06:40 AM » Author: F96T12 DD VHO
Quote from: 589 on January 11, 2018, 07:49:05 AM Home Depot: http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-140347 http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-140345 Lowes: http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-140293 Walmart: http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-140342 Basically what is in my area
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #25 on: January 11, 2018, 08:12:50 PM » Author: BT25
Quote from: Lodge on January 11, 2018, 06:26:27 PM What gets me is Home Depot in Canada doesn't get what they can get in the USA ... https://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-18-Watt-HID-T15-SOX-Low-Pressure-Sodium-Light-Bulb-for-Sea-Turtles-12-Pack-234047-0/204148552 Why can't we get LPS up here? Agent Orange.. Agent Orange won't provide orange lamps? Inconceivable!
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #26 on: January 11, 2018, 08:17:02 PM » Author: Rommie
Quote from: WestinghouseCeramalux on January 11, 2018, 08:12:50 PM Agent Orange won't provide orange lamps? Inconceivable! Ah, but LPS lamps are actually yellow, not orange, I guess they think it's not in their remit
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #27 on: January 14, 2018, 11:22:09 PM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
menards stocks a bit more in the HID section than I had originally stated, must've restocked or whatever.
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #28 on: January 15, 2018, 11:23:45 PM » Author: icefoglights
It was all old stock stuff, but my first LPS light and spare bulb came from hardware stores in remote parts of British Columbia
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	Re: What Kind Of HID Lamps Do Your Local Hardware Stores Carry? « Reply #29 on: January 16, 2018, 05:30:18 AM » Author: dor123
Our local hardware store currently carry only LEDs, CFLs, halogens, fluorescents and incandescents up to 60W. No HID lamps are available in our hardware stores now.
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