Mass Preheat Fluorescent Startup in DieselNut's Shop

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[@johnny-cc4in]

I love watching a room full of flouresant lights start up like that. When I was a kid I'd sneak upstairs in my church and turn them on in the rooms. The building was built in the late 50s. They were the louvered kind.

[@yuanyung6683]

Lovely!!! Those preheat fixtures are awesome. The subway station near my house used to have 600+ preheat fixtures with T8 lamps. Early in this year they all have been replaced by LEDs. Sad😭

[@nicksfans]

That's unfortunate!

[@crazywarp36]

Screw LED's.

[@DieselDucy]

I want to see this in person sometime.

[@Selectrolux]

Amazing video!! I'm surprised at how quickly they all started up...usually large preheat installations take longer to start due to a heavy initial draw on the power supply to overcome the resistance of all those lamps. But this is VERY COOL to watch and brings back fond memories of when I was in grade school....those old preheat "ice cube tray" louvered fixtures that I loved to watch blinking and sputtering to life when they were turned on!

[@rayfluorescent7483]

I have collected fluorescent lightbulbs for over 54 years. That would be so much fun to see that in person but I live in Dubuque Iowa and I have no way to get there. That is totally awesome preheat forever.

[@SpiritsoftheWolf]

love them preheat fixtures!!

[@andrewsstation6436]

That is a wonderful setup. It’s awesome to see all those preheat lights come on at once!

[@worldwidehidcollectorusa3519]

Installing eol tubes in every shoplight in this room would be a great halloween decoration since it would look pretty spooky to see the room constantly flashing nonstop.

[@norwegiannationalist7678]

Also a great way to burn up a ballast

[@worldwidehidcollectorusa3519]

@@norwegiannationalist7678 The only way in which an EOL tube will destroy a ballast is when the starter gets stuck from what I understand.

[@norwegiannationalist7678]

@@worldwidehidcollectorusa3519 Yup but the low voltage winding which is about 6volts will burn up the filamensts are on for too long

[@worldwidehidcollectorusa3519]

@@norwegiannationalist7678 Most preheat fluorescent tube ballasts are simple inductor ballasts that only consist of one coil while others are autotransformer ballasts consisting of a transformer coil and an inductor coil for the actual ballast. I have even used magnetic HID ballasts as preheat fluorescent tube ballasts as well and they work fine as long as the fluorescent tube is running at the correct current and that the tube is running at an arc voltage drop that is high enough for the ballast to handle.

[@norwegiannationalist7678]

@@worldwidehidcollectorusa3519 Ya but the ballast doesnt last long with an eol bulb, My 5 foot 50 watt t5 fixtures in my garage had their ballast burned up and tripped the 16 amp breaker at 240 volts meaning they drawed over 3800watts so i sadly had to remove the ballast and install led bulbs

[@HIDLampDashcam]

I thought that the 11 lights in our garage at home provided a decent mass start up but...

[@vintagefancollector1436]

That was SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thefanpage945]

You should do a video of the ceiling fans too.

[@jacknedry3925]

DO IT IN THE DARK!!!!

[@pepsicolachao4537]

That would be epic in the dark!

[@TheRandomESEnthusiastOfficial]

Love that startup

[@robertm.6285]

I wonder how they turn on those red and black fluorescent lights

[@rishukanojiya6058]

FYI

[@pepsicolachao4537]

Probably from the breaker box

[@BAFVintage]

Cute little Heat-Fans/blenderfans too

[@dandfgarage986]

That’s sick

[@GERALD_786]

This used to freak me out when i was a kid

[@igggames819]

I love watching these go on sad that LED are taking over I wish someone made an led like bulb that turned on like a fluorescet and other bulbs like mercury and sodium vapor bulbs

[@crazywarp36]

What really needs to happen is for more ppl to know that fluroscent is better than LED's, just uses a tiny bit more electricity

[@rafaf777]

amazing video, also if you know: what are those two fixtures with one red fluorescent tube and one black light used for?

[@nicksfans]

Those are used during live music events which happen a couple of times a year in this space.

[@Marksfansandthings]

should get a video of the ceiling fans :o

[@thefanpage945]

Exactly what i was thinking

[@nathanschmitz5046]

I bet that all of the dining noises were from all of the starters in the lights.

[@Boriscranford8255]

It's so pretty

[@dandfgarage986]

Awsomeeeeee

[@andycflbulb]

I laughed hard at the "commentary" in the background! This is pretty dang neat though! BTW I'm ace100w120v on LG...

[@vintagefancollector1436]

andycflbulb Oh hey!

[@suzukir123]

Yeah that's awesome. Also--- the guy at the far right... DieselNut/Face Reveal???

[@nicksfans]

+suzukir123 Good eye, and you are correct. I didn't even catch that until you mentioned it.

[@suzukir123]

That is awesome! I never really thought much about it, but it would be great if I met other lighting enthusiasts face to face. Especially from KZbin, and LG.

[@coltconnorproductions1016]

Where did he get all of those

[@worldwidehidcollectorusa3519]

I believe most of them came from an old cotton mill.

[@connorluedke3088]

Wholy fuck that is awesome

[@francesquare8708]

if only the lights were all the same color temperature

[@chaowei1036]

这些灯他是用的多粗的线？分几路控制的？

[@nicksfans]

These aren't T17 if that's what you mean. They are T12.

[@chaowei1036]

我的意思是他这些灯是用的多少横截面积的主电源线以及支路电源线，分几路控制开关的！ I mean, how many cross sections of the light, the main power line and the branch power line, how many switches are there?!

[@nicksfans]

Oh, I don't know that. I know each row can be switched independently but the rows might be divided into smaller sections.

[@nikolayusupov]

Зенит чемпион

[@mrlamp]

0:14

[@somthinwrong]

dontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayit ...........THEY ARE IN THE BACKROOMS!!!

[@crazywarp36]

Nah the backrooms just has boring old non preheat office lights

[@noonecares8403]

1 bulbs out

[@coolgarrett02]

emerson blender fan's