That is a nice triple tube fluorescent light fixture there!🙂👍 Remember seeing these when I was a small child back in the very late 60’s, early 70’s! Yes I like to collect older light fixtures & old oil railroad lanterns! 🙂🙂 Fantastic light fixture! 👍👍
Wow, that is one exquisitely beautiful, very rare light fixture, and it's too bad they don't make these lights anymore, since fluorescent lighting is starting to disappear, especially the circle-line bulbs.
Hoooooly smokes! That fixture is so friggin' cool! I have never seen such a unique one like this. I've only seen double circline but not 3. Yeah, very insanely cool!
Wow that is the coolest Circle Line fluorescent light I have ever seen I didn't no they made a triple tube one. I have a 40 wot Circle Line fluorescent tube in my clecktion. But wow that is a hell of a fined. Take care of that it's like new.
I have a regular single tube F40 T12 light in my garage and it does take a bit longer to start up than this one but one time I found a really old bulb that would work for it in the attic of that garage and when I tested out, it was soapy. It looked like a preheat was starting up.
If anybody had to design a triple 22W-32W-40W circline fluorescent fixture that used preheat ballasts, the starter sockets would need to be specifically marked because if it wasn’t the case, you would end up putting starters in the wrong spots and the fixture would not operate properly. In fact, Japan has some triple preheat circline fluorescent fixtures commonly found in pendant form, but they use 30W, 32W, and smaller diameter 40W lamps.
it would be cool if you could make it have 3 settings. 1st setting: 22w 2nd setting: 22w and 32w 3rd setting: all 3 bulbs 4th setting: all off of course you would need to somehow fit an extra ballast in there. sounds like a cool idea!
Going to be making one of these myself. All of the parts are off the shelf, just need to combine different sized canopies like a Devo "energy dome" hat, and then the rest is straightforward. I really don't understand why these aren't made anymore, they're much better looking than the singles or doubles
Hey Parrrot, I was wandering around late minute 3 and early minute 4 that you were turning it on and off ... what is that yellow bloom present around the center of the video from the lights? I was wandering, it looks somewhat strange.
Good question, the yellow you are seeing is caused by the shutter speed of the camera not matching the hertz of the fluorescent light causing that yellow effect. An effect like this is common when videoing discharge lamps.
@@Parrot175 Nice! Thank you very much! It is like when musical notes do not match harmonically, right? BTW, when are you uploading more CFL videos? I love this! Also, do you know if IKEA sold the Megaman with the weird shapes elsewhere than the USA, like, let's say, Mexico? ...
I have 2 of these fixtures currently. I would love to get the connectors and wire replaced. Does anyone have any idea where i can get them? I would also like to upgrade them to a direct wire led. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
This fixture seems to probably date to the 1950s because when you look at the nameplates of the ballasts in this fixture, you can find very similar looking nameplates on other 1950s GE ballasts.
there is life, aka light without those filaments at the ends tough...they can start without them as long as is still some mercury left, even if mercury depleted, it can still start but the efficiency drops and light turns in to a light pink tent...just try to play with a plasma ball or straight with a flyback transformer while the lamp is connected with a ballast or even an incandescent light bulb, 100W for a 20W or so fluoro tube and the other end to neutral...most and best way to extract all the life out of a floro lampis induction drivers or even cold cathode driving circuits( high voltage for startup, lower voltage for run )
