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Preheat window display fixture showing the inside This is the fixture I removed from a side window display area of a building that housed a large antique store until a few months ago. Currently the building is being remodeled for a new tenant. Man, the fixture is in horrible shape. Two of the ballasts had to be thrown out at the workplace because they leaked, one actually caught fire and left scorch marks, you can see them on the left. One of the remaining ballasts is out of the fixture but I still have it. The one still in the fixture only lit one lamp. None of the ballasts were original. I hope to restore this fixture with period correct 40s Tulamp ballasts. Keywords: Gear

Preheat window display fixture showing the inside

This is the fixture I removed from a side window display area of a building that housed a large antique store until a few months ago. Currently the building is being remodeled for a new tenant. Man, the fixture is in horrible shape. Two of the ballasts had to be thrown out at the workplace because they leaked, one actually caught fire and left scorch marks, you can see them on the left. One of the remaining ballasts is out of the fixture but I still have it. The one still in the fixture only lit one lamp. None of the ballasts were original. I hope to restore this fixture with period correct 40s Tulamp ballasts.

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File information
Filename:P2190004.JPG
Album name:Silverliner14B / Preheat Fluorescents
Keywords:Gear
Company and Date Manufactured:Unknown (There is a sticker but partially covered in spray paint)
Wattage:8x 40w
Lamp Type:Fluorescent
Filesize:99 KiB
Date added:Apr 28, 2010
Dimensions:1000 x 750 pixels
Displayed:231 times
Color Space:sRGB
Contrast:0
DateTime Original:2003:02:19 21:14:24
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Exposure Mode:0
Exposure Program:Program Creative
Exposure Time:1/50 sec
FNumber:f/4
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:5.9 mm
ISO:64
Light Source:Unknown: 0
Make:Olympus Optical Co.,ltd
Max Aperture:f/2.8
Model:C730UZ
URL:http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=1898
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Form109   [Apr 28, 2010 at 01:28 AM]
What Makes Ballasts Catch on Fire?
GullWhiz   [Apr 28, 2010 at 01:50 AM]
It isn't Class P Wink
Silverliner14B   [Apr 28, 2010 at 02:04 AM]
Around the scorch marks was an Universal ballast from '62 that burned two holes through the case. Scary! The whole fixture will have to be rewired as the cloth insulation is all brittle.
RCM   [Apr 28, 2010 at 02:05 AM]
Ballasts can catch on fire if they overheat from a dead lamp being left in too long with the ends glowing, or if the starter gets stuck, or there is some internal fault!
Silverliner14B   [Apr 28, 2010 at 02:09 AM]
RCM, most of the starters still work ok, only one was dead but not stuck, but one failed violently as you can see in one of my recent uploads. The ballasts failed most likely due to internal faults, or they weren't wired right.
joe_347V   [Apr 28, 2010 at 02:58 AM]
Scary! It's a good thing that this didn't start a fire looking at the scorch marks in the fixture abn the damage that it did.
seansy59   [Nov 21, 2010 at 02:12 PM]
YIKES! Thats why good fluorescent fixtures are usually made of metal, so it contains all of the "action". Or I should say, "bad action".

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