My name is Tyler and welcome to my channel, This channel is going to be about alot of different things but mostly old vintage lights and other old electrical items, I will have a bunch of randomness about all sorts of things on here so stay tuned to see what pops up
Amazing grab! What you actually have there are W coated mercury vapor lamps instead of the typical DX coated variant. Basically, the light output and color of a W coated lamp would look like a daylight fluorescent lamp.
I have 3 brand new ge 201sa mercury vapors and one old that I restored like you did clean the inside out and replaced the wires and put a new nema sticker on it great video man I got a couple of videos on my channel if you wanna look at them there old but I’m about to post more
Wow, yeah that’s really cool as well. I don’t think I’ve seen a dual F15T8 lamp in that sort of configuration before. I have a few, but they are all relatively standard desk lamps. I do have a dual F15T8 “floating fixture” desk lamp though, and it is quite nice from my workbench. I’d say the most unusual fluorescent desk lamp I own would be my F8T5 manual preheat desk lamp that came with its presumably original Sylvania tube from 1951! It’s also technically “remotely ballasted” and that the ballast is actually attached to the wall plug like a modern plug-in power supply for your phone or device! Thanks for sharing.
WOW! That’s an absolutely stunning piece! Fluorescent lighting I would say is my favorite lighting technology. I have yet to get any circline fixtures yet, just an adapter. regarding GE manufacturing the whole fixture, I’m not gonna say it out of the picture, but I kind of doubt it. They happened to make a lot of fluorescent sockets and stuff like that during that era it seems, I have a few ratty 1940s shop lights that have GE sockets. Anyways, I’m really glad RU-vid recommended me your video, you definitely earned like and a new subscriber today haha.
I like HPS, MH and MV lamps because each type of the HID family have a unique lighting characteristic that can never be duplicated by LED. Clear MV are a deep bluish green approximately 5900K with very poor CRI of around 15 Deluxe MV glow a more red -pinkish at start-up then slowly transition to the proper 3500- 4000K depending on the phosphor blend used with a much better CRI of about 50. HPS lamps start-up with a bluish white before taking on the familiar golden orange glow we all know and love MH lamps start-up with that familiar bluish white mercury vapor color then gradually transition to the correct color temperature , which varies widely from 3000K to over 15,000K, or to specific colors like blue or green, to name a few, and the CRI can range from very poor in the 10s, to around 90+ , depending on the metals and chemical mixture in the arc tube, with the average clear MH being 4000K with a CRI of 65.
