Fluorescent tubes are by far my favorite light source. Way more interesting than LEDs. Part of the reason why is because they fail in such interesting ways. Nothing beats a room full of these bad boys starting on preheat.
@THEBULBHOME5 жыл бұрын
Thats exactly how I think! That's why this fixture is never leaving my bedroom! Thanks!
@Tyco0725 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME Have you a such horrible fixture in your bedroom? I thought it was a cellar or laundry room:)
@bigkitty17794 жыл бұрын
I also love fluorescent tubes They swirl They have stripes And if you look at it from an angle then it doesn’t look lit up LED tubes just light up and it looks boring. Fluorescent bulbs are fun and interesting
@Altamira-Arazz3 жыл бұрын
the ballast sound is my favourite
@stephensnell13792 жыл бұрын
@@bigkitty1779 yes but L.E.D. LIGHTS LAST FOR OVER 100,000 HOURS AND REQUIRE VERY SMALL AMOUNTS OF VOLTAGE TO RUN
@johnny-cc4in7 жыл бұрын
When I was in elementary school I think I was the only one who noticed when a flouresant bulb was burning out. They'd flicker and swirl too. So fascinated by them.
@THEBULBHOME7 жыл бұрын
jonathan nelson Yes! Fluorescent tubes are one of the most fascinating things ever! I will never give up to LED, besides the light being horrible!
@johnny-cc4in7 жыл бұрын
THE BULB HOME yes I agree. I always noticed them from a real young age. It's too bad they may be gone soon. LEDS aren't so neat. Watching a room full of old flouresant fixtures turn on is amazing. Some flicker, some different hues etc.
@THEBULBHOME5 жыл бұрын
LEDs are crap! That's why I'm never replacing this fixture ever!
@ducac-04575 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME Same as me. 2019 and still uses flourescent tubes around. Waiting for one of them to fail to see it s end of life shows. I noticed an eol flourescent tube when i was 5 yr old in my kitchen and i remember i told mum ''the light is chnging colours at the edge! Then it turned from normal to a disco light. Besides, i never actually throw away a dead tube as we know they are doing everything possible to make us use shitty LEDS! I always keep the tube and it s eol videos Maybe one day i create a yt channel for eol tubes too.
@Tyco0725 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME I like fluorescent tubes too, since ever. But I have to admit that the recent (2019) top brand LED lights (not China crap) give a very good light, at least for the 3000K and 4000K versions I have seen. They are better than the fluorescent bulbs. The disadvantage is that they blind more and they produce much more blue light, which seems to be proven to produce irreversible damages to the eye's retina (a French research). At least for the color temperature from 3000K and above. In my living room I have 2x36W 3000K Edison fluorescent tubelights, placed as indirect light, and they last since 10 years! They are even better than the Philips 3000K and they are powered by an electronic ballast with preheating. Too bad that the Edison has abandoned the production.
@thelightingenthusiast Жыл бұрын
Epic video! EOL seems to be more violent on electronic ballasts as opposed to preheat ballasts. I still love the EOL phase of preheat fluorescent lights.
@japanese11013 жыл бұрын
Very good ballast in there. It keeps on going till the very end
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
Yup! Superb quality one! Even being electronic, It keeps on running after 9 years of almost 12-hour daily usage!
@cisarvialpando74123 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME if it was led it would die very soon
@Sparky-ww5re Жыл бұрын
Love the F48T12 slimline tube. I have never seen one in person but i have them in my 2016 GE lamp and ballast catalog alongside other rare slimlines like F24T12, F36T12, F42T12, F60T12, F64T12, & F84T12. Then of course the common F72T12 & F96T12.
@sounakdas95653 жыл бұрын
I am really missing those days of Flourocent tube and cfl. 😞😞
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
I am as well!!!!!! :_(((
@thelampcollections81902 жыл бұрын
I missed hps street lights too
@bogartthemonke4 ай бұрын
@@thelampcollections8190 they were actually brighter than the crap led
@Justahandle-25 күн бұрын
Non replaceable leds are money wasting if it dies.
@im_munted2 жыл бұрын
you know its lost its vacuum when it sucks in the phosphors further into the tube lol
@DavidChrisCastillo-im1wg Жыл бұрын
I like those lights especially for my home or possible future home.
@danielelise73485 ай бұрын
The amount of mercury inside the tube is so small,you were never at any risk.
@ChristhegeekHD3 жыл бұрын
hope those t12s last long, ive always found fluorescents more interesting than leds
@lazymations17786 жыл бұрын
On preheat would give nice disco
@THEBULBHOME5 жыл бұрын
Yes it would have!
@mrm3gaman4464 жыл бұрын
Yass the memories when i was a child just danced to it
@Mr26lumix6 жыл бұрын
It is a pity that in Polish we did not have such Osram T12 fluorescent lamps as daylight, they were only in a cool white
@THEBULBHOME5 жыл бұрын
Well, I prefer Cool White, as you can see at the end of the video. That same fixture is now running two 39W Cool White tubes! :)
@Tyco0725 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME I have fluorescent tubes or lamps everywhere in my home too, but for the living room, bedroom and bathroom I use the warm white 3000°K tone, (standard color code 83) It is the most comfortable and brilliant color temperature for the indoors. Try it, if you found one. Not the 2700K (code 82, 827) of the common Warm White compact lamps. It is too much yellow/orange shifted. I like the "cool white" 4000K (code 84, 840) on the kitchen counter and on my working desk, but as a general room lighting it is not comfortable in a home. I don°t like the cool white 6000K (or anyway above 4000K) at all, in any room. It is too much blue shifted. The 3300K (code 833) may be even better than the 3000K, but could not found it until now.
@venomthrottler5794 Жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOMEwhat happened buy fluorescent tube Philips lifemax tld 36w/765 buy new fluorescent light fixture in Malaysia
@Philiscool2 жыл бұрын
At 2:05 what fan were you running?
@siyuyangzhang699511 ай бұрын
Yes, in the case the fluorescent tube shows blackening with turned red and flickering, that means it is nearly dead or burnout.
@TechTed1 Жыл бұрын
You can create a high voltage low current mercury vapor arc rectifier with this burned tube the burn side use it like an anode and the filament good side use it as cathode
@helmnobu4 жыл бұрын
It always seems that instant start electronic ballasts are the least merciful on eol fluorescent lamps.
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
They have no mercy at all!
@VHSRecordingStudio3 жыл бұрын
Nice vid I have one thats going to burn out soon
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
Cool! The left one that you see at the end of the video is dying soon as well!
@FSM_Reviews6 жыл бұрын
Wow. So............................unique.
@THEBULBHOME5 жыл бұрын
Yes! I love fluorescent burnout! PD: Nice B797 title there!
@hamzamasood253863 жыл бұрын
Don't know why but I feel like preheat lamps are more brighter than non-preheat lamps
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
Actually they are not: magnetic ballast like the ones used on preheat run the tubes at a 60 Hz (50 Hz in Europe) frequency rate, meaning that the bulb actually turns on and off 60 times per second (you can see this taking a slo-mo video on a room illuminated by a old preheat fixture), so this diminishes the overall light output. On the other hand, electronic ballasts just like the one seeing on the video (which it's an instant start, but that is only the starting method) run bulbs at higher frequencies (more than 1,000+ Hz, depending on the model), so in return, maximizes light output as reduces the bulb turning off with each nominal pulse!
@Oddworld_levels_hacks_and_more3 жыл бұрын
I hope the Philips tubes still works!
@jacobtennyson92134 жыл бұрын
Phillips ALTO are Low Mercury Bulbs. However they are horrible bulb because they could dim out later. You should buy G.E. or Sylvania bulbs. They work very good and long lasting.
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
Actually Philips made often have better CRI as the phosphor coating is thinker. The bulb you see on the video is made by OSRAM (Sylvania) and didn't last that long (6 years). Instead, the Philips ones are made in 2003! And have been burning in other location before I put them on my room! So no, they are not bad at all! The only thing could happen to low mercury lamps is mercury starvation, which is rare on F48T12 lamps! Mines are still going! And they has 17 years old!!!!! If you don't call that quality, then I don't know why is quality. But, btw, I got this bulbs for replacement: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ_HkmWOmdCHntE
@jacobtennyson92134 жыл бұрын
I have tested out Phillips ALTO bulbs that still worse. they dim out faster before they burn out. They are rip-offs. G.E. and Sylvania bulbs are vary good lasting bulbs. They do not dim out before they burn out.
@jacobtennyson92134 жыл бұрын
Westinghouse fluorescent bulbs ( Especially the High Outputs) back then when I tested them are excellent energy efficient. You can rapidly switch them on and off and it ever dim and pop out burn out faster.
@jacobtennyson92134 жыл бұрын
Westinghouse High Output fluorescent bulbs can indicate in the final phase to dim burn out phases when both tungsten filaments gets dark blue in both ends. But those bulbs keep on lighting up until on of the filaments blew out. They are very long lasting bulbs up to 6 years or more.
@Funkybulb2 жыл бұрын
It no better these days as last two or 3 years GE slinelines Been made on philip machinery And philips is still one of best lamps and better daylight tubes. If u want keep them from dimming out run them on full power ballast.
@Mickytdi4 ай бұрын
Usually the filiment breaks and the post melts down
@helenharp67582 жыл бұрын
What year was it and just asking?
@lightingkid2010 Жыл бұрын
poor lamp! it tried to keep the room lit but couldnt stop its electrode from burning!
@jianweit5 жыл бұрын
Don't know why but running them in preheat seems to last longer..
@THEBULBHOME5 жыл бұрын
Since they are single-pin, you cannot run them on preheat, but they will last longer on preheat for sure! Why? Because is less stress on the electrodes at time of turning power on. On Instant-Start fixtures, the ballast sends a high-powered high-voltage high-frequency spike in order to breake down the resistive mercury column that exist on a cold lamp. This scatters the electrodes more easily than preheat'em until they are ready to strike an arc. Hope I solve your question!
@jianweit5 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME exactly. That's why my home bulbs were electronic start but is bi-pin and preheat on each ends (2 contacts) thus I converted all the fixtures to preheat and it lasts wayyyy longer. One of my daily use lamps are more then 10 years old!
@Anthony_The_Chicken_Licker7 жыл бұрын
Nice 😁
@THEBULBHOME7 жыл бұрын
Anthony Pinto Thanks!
@NitroSpeed803 ай бұрын
0:57 I saw the orange glow go up
@LegendaryRadioJock2 жыл бұрын
"Losted"? No such word... I've never seen a failed tube lose it's vacuum.
@NitroSpeed80 Жыл бұрын
@The Bulb Home That’s scarier than volume 2 of your video!
@vakieshacosta53193 жыл бұрын
its like a party in thebulb
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
yup haha!!
@stevenhoelderich94904 жыл бұрын
Hey sport, that's dangerous, when a fluorescent lightbulb turns orange It could explode. So if you.see that again get Mom or Dad to fix it for you DIY it understand?!?
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
Clearly you don't know what you are talking about! First of all, the tube has a vacuum inside, so atmospheric pressure is greater outside, thus it wouldn't explode! It just could implode, and that's exactly what happens at the end! Second of all, as you can see, my channel is all about lightning, so I do now what I am doing!
@davesbusstuffandmore5 жыл бұрын
Nice Video, I do Like It When T12's Lets Go, T8's Just Glow At Ends and 4/5ft T5 Just Switch Off?
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I haven't witnessed a EOL T5 death yet, but I assume it depends on the kind of ballast you are using!
@davesbusstuffandmore4 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME Small 2ft T5's on 1 electronic ballast. Photo I took at work in office. 1 T5 EOL, 2nd T5 has issues 3rd seems ok www.flickr.com/photos/everybodiesdeaddave/32941630225/in/dateposted/
@soundman1112 жыл бұрын
Cool video! :)
@THEBULBHOME2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Check the latest one on the same lamp: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2q4iYOBiseIhNE
@rayfluorescent74832 жыл бұрын
I have a question for you do you fluorescent bulbs last very long let me know
@sandiegotrafficlightstrain3542 жыл бұрын
Florescent tubes can last up to 8,000 hours. Same with flourescent bulbs.
@eduardoveytia244 Жыл бұрын
Yo prefiero los FLUORESCENTES y los incandescentes que las LED
@chaseedwardsedwards5403 жыл бұрын
I had plenty flourescent tubes do that already
@gagoosh662 жыл бұрын
I would actually try to burn it out on purpose. :)
@venomthrottler57942 жыл бұрын
phosper vaccum cleared
@Gamingisfunwow1771 Жыл бұрын
After November 4 back 1 day was my birthday
@FurasCebulowy3 жыл бұрын
Its not making noises wtf
@lordweiter93822 жыл бұрын
Hi what is this electronic ballast ?
@kristophermaldonado76985 жыл бұрын
bulb good
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
Ended up harsh!
@FSM_Reviews5 жыл бұрын
What fan were you using?
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
A MAN Birdman Ultravent, exactly like this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHutmGquq9yrbMk
@bigkitty17794 жыл бұрын
I was in 5th grade and it was raining and one of the tubes started to swirl on one end but it didn’t go out
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
They can burn like that for long sometimes!
@bigkitty17794 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know that
@FLCollection6202 жыл бұрын
RIP Osram Bulb 2010-2016
@THEBULBHOME2 жыл бұрын
6 years is a short lifetime for a fluorescent lamp if you ask me 😅
@FLCollection6202 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME it is!
@THEBULBHOME2 жыл бұрын
@@FLCollection620 Probably is because of the instant start of SlimLine fixtures... It was turned on and off a lot of times during a single day
@thelightingenthusiast Жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME My grandma’s 2D fluorescent light in her bathroom would have its arc flash for a split second everytime we switched it on. It was also being ran on an electronic ballast, and the ends were blackened. Sadly, it was replaced with an LED bulkhead just before it reached EOL.
@eduardoveytia244 Жыл бұрын
Aquí en Guadalajara Jalisco México Me decían que duraban 2 años sin importar la marca ni si hera T12 o T8
@Amirl.b4 ай бұрын
fluorescent mexico rip hello led new millon mexico
@eduardoveytia2443 ай бұрын
THE BULB HOME NO USA LEDS
@thelampcollections81905 жыл бұрын
Rip fluorescent lamp 2016-2019
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
It actually burned out in 2016, I just uploaded the video later! The tube started working life back in 2010 and burned out in 2016... Not bad for an Instant Start one, but it could have lasted more!
@Sparky-ww5re Жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOMEthe only real advantage of instant start lamps that I can see is saving 1 to 2 watts per tube unlike a rapid start ballast that keeps the filaments heated by the low volt winding, at least with the old school magnetic rapid start ballasts, I think the newer electronic rapid start ballast shuts off the cathode heating once the lamps have started. Having said that, instant start lamps are best used in a commercial setting where the lamps are expected to run continuously for several hours or longer between starts and that's why 72 and 96 inch is the most common slimline sizes, while the 24, 36, 48 and 60 inch slimlines are rare. At least here in the USA not sure about other countries.
@Warp33264 ай бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME 6 years is great! Most LED bulbs dont last 3.
@THEBULBHOME4 ай бұрын
@@Warp3326 I couldn't agree more!
@venomthrottler57942 жыл бұрын
What happend
@VHSRecordingStudio3 жыл бұрын
Go check it out on "camden nye channel" its called (EOL) Fluorescent bulb burning out (finally).
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@lordweiter93824 жыл бұрын
why she lost gas should not ?
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
I think it was because got so hot that the glass lost the strength and fractured, losing the vacuum.
@lordweiter93824 жыл бұрын
THE BULB HOME This should not happen in a fluorescent lamp, there is no vacuum, only Argon and mercury vapor 😉
@caleb17363 жыл бұрын
And phosphor
@lordweiter93823 жыл бұрын
@@caleb1736 You're right I forgot the phosphor 🧐
@caleb17363 жыл бұрын
No worries lol 😄
@gabrielchiu26503 жыл бұрын
im gald thaht when they lose thier vacumn they dont implode because that would be very bad
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
Oh, but it implode indeed! I just wasn't there to film it!!
@LcNavin3 жыл бұрын
your starter
@astonmangilit35605 жыл бұрын
Coating burnt so much
@THEBULBHOME5 жыл бұрын
Yes! Tube end got so hot I was surprised it didn't melt the lamp base itself! :v
@venomthrottler5794 Жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOMESame problem Philips lifemax tld 36w is burned out phosphor cleared in my school
@cloviscareca6 жыл бұрын
Dude, check my last video on my channel. I have an amazing old fluorescent desklamp (starter and preheat included!). I bet you'll like
@THEBULBHOME5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I will watch it in a moment!
@aryanmhcen60058 ай бұрын
Gcyd😭
@vakieshacosta53193 жыл бұрын
mine is oringe color
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
cool
@LcNavin3 жыл бұрын
is died 2021
@THEBULBHOME3 жыл бұрын
Noup, this was recorded back in 2016!
@venomthrottler57942 жыл бұрын
Has problem
@venomthrottler57942 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME 2016 i want coming malaysian
@venomthrottler57942 жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME 2016 my age 4 years old boy
@venomthrottler5794 Жыл бұрын
@@THEBULBHOME hello 0:53
@user-yr7bb7vr5t3 жыл бұрын
Uh
@bigkitty17794 жыл бұрын
It was also swirling
@THEBULBHOME4 жыл бұрын
Cool!
@jacobtennyson92134 жыл бұрын
It's electricity and plasma cause be the failing filament.