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GE COMPAX 15w Lamp
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This was the only one still in service. The white coating on the glass is peeling too, from running MANY hours a day (like 6AM to 11PM 7 days a week.
I found another one just laying down on the floor stowed in between a display case and the wall of the room. Above was a fixture like this but it had a screw/in outlet adapter and a T8 shoplite plugged in that was lighting the display case. I guess they just stuck it out of the way and forgot about it? Well, since there was some dust on it, menaing it was sitting around for at least a couple years, i considered it fair game and snuck it out of there. The batteries fell out of my camera and i happened to see the beauty when i bent over to pick up the batteries. there used to be a bunhc of these but they were pretty much wiped out by those A19 MAXlite CFLs.
The one i got still works too with a pretty loud PING PING! as it's starts. I unscrewed the one in the pic and screwed it back in to see how it started and this one is preheat too but starts up pretty quick and is silent, likely from already being on for hours. the white coating is yellowed too.
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A boat we're buying (and owned once before that too) (built in 1940) used to be totally wired with that stuff! Of course, after the fire some got destroyed/removed, and then of course after it sank at the dock after we sold it in March 0f 2012 (...) we're having to tear out the rest of the wire (and the single-core (to be coast-guard-approved you must use muti-stranded wire on boats) BX cable that replaced the fire-damaged wire. Scrap collectors would be happy...
Come to think of it, in 2012 on the boat I am describing we removed some cloth Romex (which should never have been done; you must use multi-strand on boats) that powered one circuit.
UPDATE 6/17/13: On my boat are three vaporproof fuxtures (currently only one working, two disconnected that were part of the old system and have yet to be re-wired or removed). The disconnected one (this light: (...) is still the same sans the busted cage which is now gone) and sports a 34v (was a 32v DC system which was common on boats before 12v became the popular standard) 100w A23? A21? inside-frost GE lamp with an etch like this: (...)
It's still there as of last week, with the same lamp, although it is disconnected. I remember this light working in 2006 (likely with the same lamp) but even in 2011-2012 when the pic I linked to was taken power had already been cut to it (and everything else that was 32v) after the fire. It's certainly "dead" now and hasn't been re-wired and reconnected yet (if it will ever be; the setup it's on is going away eventually)
The other disconnected one is a wall-mount light with no wire/power to it at this time and no lamp/globe/cage either. In 2006 it had (I think) a 50w 34v GE inside-frost lamp with the etch like the one I linked to above, then in 2011-2012 (already disconnected) it had a 15w version of same.
The third (also wall-mount but mounted to a beam so technically ceiling-mount) has been re-wired with multi-strand NM #12 stuff like extension cord (which apparently can be bought in huge rolls as well). It has no globe but still has the cage and also had a 34v 15w inside-frost GE and was powered by wire like the stuff pictured above (which also had tons of (some possibly lead-based) paint on it as well. Anyway now it has been rewired and is currently 120v with a 13w Feit-Electric spiral buglite CFL. (did you know that all non-navigation lights on boats should be yellow hence the bug light?) That fixture got slightly scorched by a fire in 2011, was (like all the others) submerged for five days in July-August 2012 when the boat sank at the dock (no not under our ownership), but has since been cleaned up down to it's SLOLD BRASS! body too! (at first I thought it was gold spraypaint!