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Older Fluorescents and Ballast Box Here's a trio of fluorescent lamps and a ballast box that I got at Restore today. The ballast box appears to be unused and has a Magnetek rapid start ballast that runs one F25T8 and a F24T8 (never seen that before) and a space for another ballast. The three fluorescents is a Canadian GE F40/CW Mainlighter, a Canadian Westy F40/CW and a Westinghouse Canada F30T12/CW. I haven't tested anything yet or checked the date code on the ballast but I'll update the page when I do. Keywords: Miscellaneous

Older Fluorescents and Ballast Box

Here's a trio of fluorescent lamps and a ballast box that I got at Restore today. The ballast box appears to be unused and has a Magnetek rapid start ballast that runs one F25T8 and a F24T8 (never seen that before) and a space for another ballast. The three fluorescents is a Canadian GE F40/CW Mainlighter, a Canadian Westy F40/CW and a Westinghouse Canada F30T12/CW.

I haven't tested anything yet or checked the date code on the ballast but I'll update the page when I do.

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Album name:joe_347V / Fluorescent Lamps
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TiCoune66   [Aug 21, 2010 at 03:37 AM]
Cool! I have a Mainlighter similar to yours AND a pair of Westinghouse F40Ds similar to the one in the middle.
joe_347V   [Aug 21, 2010 at 03:39 AM]
Thanks Vince, could you maybe date them for me? or maybe you could tell me how to date them so I could date them myself Wink
TiCoune66   [Aug 21, 2010 at 09:13 PM]
I don't know for the Westinghouse tubes but the GE was made in Feb. 4, 1974. Cool
joe_347V   [Aug 23, 2010 at 12:23 AM]
Thanks Vince, I tested the two F40s and got the date off the ballast too. The GE works fine and is still pretty bright but has a little endblackening. The Westy also works but one of the ends has quite heavy endblackening, and finally the ballast dates to October-November 1994 (K 94).
TiCoune66   [Aug 23, 2010 at 12:34 AM]
October Wink
joe_347V   [Aug 23, 2010 at 12:48 AM]
Thanks Wink I still have to test the F30 and the ballast too. I also did some searching ad found that a FO25T8 is a 3' T8 lamp and a FBO24T8 is a 16.5" T8 lamp with a closer spacing between the tubes than a FB40T12.
Silverliner14B   [Aug 23, 2010 at 01:02 AM]
The middle lamp is from 1982, the one on the right is from 1972.
joe_347V   [Aug 23, 2010 at 03:10 AM]
Thanks Dave.

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