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Stockpile of 8ft slimlines for the ban - Eat my voltage!
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A ban for 2012? Pfeh, whatever, I collect spare tubes like a squirrel :P
I recently found a nice jackpot of Sylvania SuperSaver slimlines. I know, they're energy-saving. But hey, they work good, and they're free! Plus, they're NOT ecologic! Except two of them, which I installed when I relamped from daylight to cool white, in an attempt to spend my tubes close to EOL to get space for full wattage, NOS lamps. I won't simply throw the energy saving ones away, so I use them LOL.
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Are slimline lamps still made or are they entirely banned now?
BTW, since we all put our preference for energy saving lamps: if i have them, i use them to relamp relative's fixtures to get vintage tubes and that's ONLY if i get a bunch of NOS energy saving lamps for absolutly free. Even if they're only a few cents each i won't get them. i will not let those reduced wattage lamps hut my vintage ballasts. or any magnetic ballast for that matter. I'll use F34s in electronic T12 ballasts.
I wouldn't buy energy savers but if I can get them for free I take them, or occasionally they come with fixtures, as was the case with my Sears shoplight.
(by the way the house my Sears shoplight came from is being demolished in a few weeks. I went there today and will save some more things another day).