Nice! Wait till the vintage mercs start popping up at your Restore...then you'll be all .

I didn't find any HID stuff period there. I'm still super pissed at myself for not getting that vintage troffer with the old looking GE ballasts but oh well i can't get too mad since my mom offered to take be back "sometime". Hopefully "sometime" is before someone else buys it. I somehow think us lighting nuts are the only ones who touch the used and dusty lighting related items.

I missed out some cool stuff at Restore mainly because I didn't have enough room to store them all. Like the other CGE 175w clear Bonuslines I only bought one), a 1950s-1960s vintage shoplight, among other stuff I might have forgot.

Wow nice! Those are super fragile though so be really careful, i have one too!

@ Joe; yeah i hate the feeling of having to leave something vintage behind. I wouldn't hated to leave a MV lamp behind. If i saw any street lights I'd have to give in and get it if it was a reasonable price. I would have to end up selling it here though but it's be nice to have the light for that month in bewtween lol.

@ Aaron; thanks for the heads up! The plastic lens feels kind of fragile. The is instant start too unlike the GE Compax i got for Joe M which has a glass lens and it's preheat.

Interesting the one i have takes a second of preheat before lighting up, mines rapid start or programmed start

Nice find, where was it made and what's the date code?

It's made in the USA and has a date code of K5. The box is ©1984.

November 1985, (feel free to correct if Im wrong on the month)

October 1985. Thats old for a CFL, though I have two Westinghouse Econ-Novas from 12/82.

btw alights, don't forget the letter I is skipped in the date code.

Interesting that makes it confusing...btw my lamps box is ©1987, and date of manufacture is April 1988

yeah I is skipped in the GE date code system. that's the only one i know. IIRC, Westinghouse used the same exact date code system as GE but theirs was a few years behind/ahead.