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Old 60s Style Sign Light
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Here's one of the few remaining 60s era sign lights left in Toronto. It uses incandescent lamps and it looks like it's in pretty bad shape. The original sockets have been disconnected and a new double socket installed.
Newer sign lights are usually one lamp and is cast aluminium instead of sheet metal.
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BTW, i just got two NOS Philips Alto F20T12 3000K lamps from 2005 (J5 and K5 with shield logos). The October lamp came with the sleeve and the september one had the cardboard piece with the pins loose so i asked my grandpa if i could have it and he said yep so i fixed the pins and it works nicely, as does the other. Of course there's the flicker to them that all low mercury lamps have but maybe it's just becuase it was the first time they'd ever been used... I removed two bad lamps from his troffers and wraps too. There was one troffer with the outer lamps unlit and one wrap wit flickering lamps (wrap is two lamp, troffer is four). Only one lamp from each fixture was bad so i fixed the wrap light and the troffer has the outer tubes delamped. I also played around with whether i like the inner or outer tubes lit and the outer tubes removed looks much better and the area is more evenly lit too. With the inner tubes removed the area right below the fixture is darker than around the fixture.
The tubes removed are a Philips F40T12/CW plus alto from March 2007 (no logo though; it is marked C7) and a no-name F40CW/RS/EW 34W cool white tube. I suspect it's philips since the date code is either 3E or 3K and the end caps are philips. Also, EW stands for "Econ-o-Watt" most likely. Did Philips carry over the Econ-o-Watt name from Westie? I think the lamps would date to 1993, which means they're the originals to the fixtures. Pretty good considering they're 34W tubes. Man those Advance Mark III energy saving 0.73A ballasts are NOISEY!
@Jace here's a shot of one (the yellow thing above the sign) and I can probably get a better pic of one later this week.