I actually didn’t know you love aviation and old lighting! 💖💖💖💖✈️ Love your md-11 all the wall too btw! ^^ R.I.P build! 😔 you had a long life!

eol makes the light orange why is this one blue

Nice! It is great to see you return after a long hiatus.

Meet us at 2026 “is” when your tube dies Do not care about the (edit) thingy [i want likes]

I was using Philips lamps but they are kinda hit and miss. Soetimes they last very long time but sometimes they fail after short time.

Yo tengo unos que también son de encendido precalentado tengo unos OSRAM un PHILIPS un GENERAL ELECTRIC un MAGG y unos que no dicen la marca solo dicen los watts

El segundo tubo fluorescente PHILIPS del video anterior ya se quemó?

Ура, новое видео! А я уж волновался...

Classic end of life behavior. The lamp comes up to temperature, goes out and it tries to start again. Thanks for sharing! 💡💡💡

Very nice Video, I love these kinds of PL adapters, I have a few of them myself. I think it probably lasted so long because you didn't start it a lot, only 2 times over 10 hours in a day based on your description. I managed to find 2 of these in duro test flavor once, with the vita lite phosphor. Unfortunately one of them blinked right out of the box, i assume it had a gas fill issue.

Thanks for watching! A few thoughts to get the conversation going! This is my bed lamp, built by myself back in 2015, using a classic old globe base which my father bought in a trip he made to Sicily, Italy, which explains why makes the lamp sit in an angle and has mounting gear for the original decoration glass globe. Although perhaps quirky, it helps me mount the Chinese lantern I use for making it look nice! Originally I had installed a Philips Genie 14W bulb, but I changed it a year later in October 2016 for a Philips PL-C 13W adaptor or adapter, as I wanted to have the nice unpredictable blinky start of preheat every time I switched it on, and the quirky flickery light of an arcade lighting technology, which is sadly starting to be strongly considered outdated and inefficient. I however find it so endlessly pleasant and interesting... Speaking of the dates, you can clearly see all the dating information all over the lamp, as I like to record the day of installation of each light bulb! Helps keep record for the best lamp technology for different applications throughout the house and measure each manufacturer's quality. Finally, is just a geeky thing a lighting fan as I am enjoys to do, and helps me do calculations as the following: Considering I use this lamp A LOT (at least 10 hours per day, 4 in the morning and 6 at night), this lamp gave some good old 27,300 hours of very good light quality (considering the 91 months of service from 10/16 to 05/24)...: That is DOUBLE the 10,000 hour nominal life cycle considered in the official Philips datasheet for the bulb, enclosed and withstanding voltage variations and violent power blackouts during it's 7 1/2 years life! As you saw in the video, I already had the replacement ready... From a very long time I have know fluorescent stock, specially specialty bulbs like the PL-C, are going to became rarer, so I ensured to have my arsenal ready, and I still do! No doubt I will be searching for a new PL-C for the next time this one goes out in the (hopefully) upcoming 8 years (the other one is reserved for a lamp in the dining room). I believe you still can get a 2700K PL-C in central Mexico, or as of May 2024, or at least I hope so! Hope you enjoyed this short video! I am very busy at the moment, finishing up my last semester of college and the work just seems endless! However, I'm working on a video showcasing lighting technology in Europe as I just did an academic interchange there last year... Lot's of preheat action included, as I believe is a better technology for 220 V / 50 Hz, or so I heard, and also I'm making a trip to the US, so no doubt I'll be visiting a good old restore! I hope I'll find classic lighting equipment for the collection there! Take care!

Welcome back!

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The amount of mercury inside the tube is so small,you were never at any risk.

Wow. That ballast is gone.

Fascinating, it's from the second Arab Israeli war

Yeah that's the good stuff

I was on holiday in kenya in Mombasa and at the hotel I went down the stairs and went into the changing rooms and noticed that one of the lights wasn't working and tried to fix it and the tube was flickering really fast and the whole tube went black and really hot

Gosh, I would love to have a fluorescent fixture just like this! I have 18 NOS F48T12 Slimline lamps and don't have the correct fixture to use them in.

Needs new ballast and upgrade tubes F8t5 Fluorescent or LED .

cool

Wow! Where is this (which country)? Its Beautiful.

Where the Rubber Johnny video was born

*CLICK!* *MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM* *PING!* That's what my 65w T12 single shoplight sounds like.

NOW ! is the time to fit an LED replacement ( Ha - Ha ? ) ... VERY efficient , BTW ............ DAVE™🛑

Tidy tiles ! ... shame about the ceiling ( ? ) , last painted in 1967 ( ? ) .................. DAVE™🛑

Could they clean up everything

too bad its 60hz, it would be an absolute banger if it was 50hz.

Blue crayon fluorescent light

Why is there a filament in that lamp when it only uses one pin on each side

The only tube in the bathroom… Imagine that burns out

Mercury starvation is the reason the tube glows blue

do you have these old lamps in your collection

Note: B1

Does it use a magnetic ballast as current limiter? Are 110v suffienct to strike the lamp?

jajs😢

You could put in led replacement as long the ballast works with it

Are these cold-cathode?

I actually have 2 recordings of a preheat Thorn lamp on my KZbin channel.

Nice tubes! I used to have four of these in the F24 Variant, made in 1980 at the pilot plant. I gave two to another collector and unfortunately another one burned out so I am left with one. I do however have it lit up in a custom made fixture with a newer F24T12 daylight lamp. I have plans to eventually cut up an F40 Strip light to run some F48 lamps that i also plan on getting.

Orange spark is the internal ignitor, its normal! i have an extremely worn mbfu lamp which i have to put in the garage every so often for the mercury to reset, and it does this. Cosy lamp!

That's not true they are made in poland.

Beautiful lamps. I find it interesting getting a peak at what lamps other countries use. Here in the US 4 foot T12 slimlines are very uncommon. 8 foot T12 was the most common slimline in the US, being the industry standard for decades until the mid to late 1990s in department stores, grocery stores and similar public facilities, when T8 along with electronic ballasts began to take over, much like LED's in the 2010s.

I feel very sorry for you. That time out of life that is so precious spent on an old light fixture.

brings me back to my youth

Amazing lamp. I have some like this

Gcyd😭

Thank You, my life is complete now.

I have done this many times glad to see other people doing it

This starter be like: *happy 60 Hz noises* 😂