What led members to start their lighting collections in the first place? « on: October 17, 2020, 03:20:28 AM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
I wonder what made people interested in collecting lighting?
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.

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	Re: What led members to start their lighting collections in the first place? « Reply #2 on: October 17, 2020, 03:33:33 AM » Author: wide-lite 1000
I've had a fascination with both lamps and lighting fixtures as long as I can remember .
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	Re: What led members to start their lighting collections in the first place? « Reply #5 on: October 17, 2020, 01:36:04 PM » Author: HPS_250
When I was just 3 years old, my mom would walk around with me in a stroller and I would ask to stop under every cobrahead (mercury vapor, at the time) so I could read the NEMA tag. That was my first interest in lighting, and since then I was interested in all kinds of lighting. I just started collecting last year and I felt that I wanted to preserve some vintage lighting in the midst of how far LEDs have gone.
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I’ve always been interested in all kinds of lighting, mainly incandescent and HID, and especially all kinds of sodium lamps (HPS/LPS). I’ll tolerate LED but I’m not a fan of it.
I’m not proud to say that my city has Devolved to LED.

	Re: What led members to start their lighting collections in the first place? « Reply #6 on: October 17, 2020, 01:38:16 PM » Author: Cole D.
When I was a kid, I was interested in old lighting, as the house next door had 1950s light fixtures that were intriguing to me, since I had only lived in newer houses with modern fixtures. I also got interest in street lights around that time. That interest waned for a bit and then I got interested again, particularly with HID fixtures going to LED, I wanted some for my collection. And since they are available on eBay for decent prices, I thought why not buy a few. I never considered I'd own a streetlight as a kid, especially since they aren't something that is easy to just go buy. But eBay helps with that.
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Collect vintage incandescent and fluorescent fixtures. Also like HID lighting and streetlights.

	Re: What led members to start their lighting collections in the first place? « Reply #7 on: October 17, 2020, 02:41:13 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Always had an interest in anything electrical, but it was our 5 foot GEC Europa fluorescent batten in our kitchen at home that got me interested in lighting at a very young age, (I’m glad I rescued it before mum and dad sold the house), and moved down south! Also the change from mercury lamps to SOX in our town back in 1980 had a big part to play in it too!
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	Re: What led members to start their lighting collections in the first place? « Reply #9 on: October 18, 2020, 12:26:53 AM » Author: Bulbman256
I read led as LED. Silly me, might get a slap for that one! What started my interest was the curiosity for lighting and can pinpoint i think a guaranteed point where my collection started when it was my 6th birthday. Don't remember much but i still have those bulbs to this day.
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	Re: What led members to start their lighting collections in the first place? « Reply #12 on: October 18, 2020, 09:06:28 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
I've simply always liked lights. I'd say Christmas lights was my first love, and Fluorescent would be second. The first 'light thing' I ever bought myself was a single set of 50 Christmas lights, got sometime back in the very early 1980's. (I tried looking for today it to post a pic, but couldn't find it...I deff still have it, just not sure where it is since I have tons of sets of lights.) The first fluorescent I ever bought was a F15 preheat fixture, got sometime in the early-mid 1980's. That one I uploaded a pic of back in 2010. ---------- Back then I had no idea that I'd one day own hundreds of sets of Christmas lights & dozens of fluorescents.
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