I didn't know 4 foot tubes existed with single pins on the ends. I've only seen that with the 8 foot ones, at least here in the USA. I am also guessing the frequent on off cycles made your tubes go more quickly.

was the house already demolished?

Can you sell me pls if you want ❤?

hi THE BULB HOME, can you tell me how did you built your night bed lamp, what equipment you used for it, i want to build my own lamp for my bedroom xD, is there any chance you can show a tutorial to explain how you did it? loved your video💪

Noisy Ballast and good starter

In my area I usually see these use 2 bulbs not 3

why is the ballast so much louder when it is starting the light, but once its fully on its way quieter?

Don’t let the purple glow next to the longer base, it can possibly melt it.

Hey dude! I have to replace an light bulb at the living room. Do I need to turn the house electric off?

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Sounds like a motorcycle to me

Why is it so noisy?

I had my florecent light bulb burn out and flicker in my house.

how grandma's bathroom light sounds like

I’ve been binge watching your videos and now im definitely looking into getting some old light fixtures myself. I’ve seen new old stock bulbs and fluorescent tubes at second hand shops but never thought of buying them until now. 😄

Fluorescent tube have microwave motor

Did you get to keep the whole setup?

Industria Eléctrica Mexicana (IEM).

Well I heard fireworks in the background

I am scared of it 0:03 0:21 dancing light

If you listen very closely, you can hear the starter!

Alguma lâmpada queimada 💡

I found a few tubes, and one already had a black spot. Lit it up with an electronic ballast because a magnetic ballast wouldnt light it. Same exact behavior before it blew except I could literally see the electrode melt and when it lost vacuum, it made a loud pop and cracked the glass. The end was very hot so I guess these electronic ballasts really drive every bit of life out of the tubes. It stayed lit even after the electrodes melted, only going dead when the glass cracked.

I was walking in my school hallway I saw a fluorescent light burned out and it started flickering

Which cameras did you use

60Hz sound effect!!!!

0:57 I saw the orange glow go up

I have a heavily used pls bulb the starter died so I’m gonna do the same thing

Backrooms! C’mon, it’s the elephant in the room and no one has brought it up in the comments.

Imagine going to the bathroom at 3 am and you wake your parents up with this

That's it. I'm buying Sylvania starters

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZUZIT

Looks like an electronic ballast I have collected fluorescent lightbulbs for over 54 years and I’m not stopping now. I’m glad you got your fixed or fixed but you have an electronic ballast that’s what you have.

Looks like an electronic ballast

I have seen it happens so many times in my life it’s unbelievable and it doesn’t scare me

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Cool video thanks.😮

Me in 1967 going to the bathroom at midnight, flips the switch, BUZZZZIT!

Tengo varias bombillas philips son-t 250w antiguas sin uso nuevas en su caja pero no se cual será el año de fabricación

NOW that's lol a historic beautiful liminal piece bzzz

It's still working How's that possible it's from 1967 so that play fixture has to be 57 years old

Ah yes just like a fluorescent bulb when the lamp has black ends, flickering just like the starter thinking the lamp failed to start.

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The beautiful thing about fluorescent is how many spectacular failure modes are common, depending on the circuit used. Preheat lamps tend to flash at EOL as the lamp's operating voltsge rises above the ballast output. A lamp glowing at the ends with no blinking indicates a starter with welded contacts or shorted condenser, often caused by prolonged operation of a blinking EOL lamp. This can damage a new lamp rather quickly as well and cause the ballast to overheat and fail. EOL on rapid start is typically indicated by flickering and greatly reduced brightness, sometimes there is no light, but the ends glow a dim orange. Since most 2 lamp fixtures operate the lamps in series, one lamp failure causes both lamps to go out or dim/flicker. EOL on instant start is rather spectacular. The ballast open circuit voltage is usually in the 600 - 800 volt range, high enough to start the lamp with one or both cathodes completely exhausted of emission coating. The lamp flickers and spirals violently with severe blackening and red-orange glow at one or both ends, and the ends can get extremely hot, sometimes to the point of cracking or melting a hole in the tube or melting the sockets and dropping the lamp. HID (mercury vapor, metal halide, high pressure sodium) lamps can have a similar EOL behavior as fluorescent in that the lamp operating voltage increases with age. They can all exhibit cycling, that is, starting and going out as the lamp warms to full brightness. Metal halide is by far the most dangerous because the quartz arc tube operates at around 2000°F with an internal pressure of 50 - 90 psi or more, and as the lamp ages, the arc tube weakens from thermal and chemical stress, and can rupture, blasting shards of red hot quartz though the area with force comparable to a grenade. Because many disastrous fires have occurred in warehouses and similar industrial settings from EOL metal halide lamps, the type O lamp was developed. This special lamp has a ballistic shield around the arc tube to prevent fragments from striking the outer glass, which is a special heat resistant type to contain the red hot remains of the arc tube following a rupture, this type can be used safely in open or enclosed fixtures and may be required by insurance companies or the fire marshal for facilities that still use metal halide lighting. In addition open metal halide fixtures manufacturered after 2004 are required to have exclusionary sockets, so that only type O lamps will operate.

Cuánto tiempo crees que dure??

It can get up to 500° so yeah it melts the socket

Wow, that thing looks over 30 years old! Early compact fluorescent for sure.

You should reuse the starter in the bulb

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