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All Three Ancient Lamps Lit Together The MAZDA lamp to the left puts out about the light of a 5W nightlight lamp. The other two combined don't even put that much light out lol. The red lamp comes on a second after the others. It sort of fades in and out when it's turned on or off. the edison lamp blinks for around 30 seconds then it seems to steady out, though there's a bit of a flicker to it. It's dimmer than a candle at 120V (it's a 220V lamp per the base etch) so it's probably be about as bright as a candle is powered at 240V. The mazda lamp is 250V and 15W so naturally it's half as bright as it should be (and would last twice a long too) The red lamp is supposedly 120V according to the ever so faint etch but it't pretty dim too. Keywords: Lamps

All Three Ancient Lamps Lit Together

The MAZDA lamp to the left puts out about the light of a 5W nightlight lamp. The other two combined don't even put that much light out lol. The red lamp comes on a second after the others. It sort of fades in and out when it's turned on or off. the edison lamp blinks for around 30 seconds then it seems to steady out, though there's a bit of a flicker to it. It's dimmer than a candle at 120V (it's a 220V lamp per the base etch) so it's probably be about as bright as a candle is powered at 240V. The mazda lamp is 250V and 15W so naturally it's half as bright as it should be (and would last twice a long too) The red lamp is supposedly 120V according to the ever so faint etch but it't pretty dim too.

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Album name:Mike / My Lamps
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Date added:Mar 09, 2013
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GEsoftwhite100watts   [Mar 09, 2013 at 05:33 PM]
The Mazda lamp will last WAY longer than twice as long at 120v...it could last practically forever considering those 130v "Extended Life" rough service bulbs that last 2-3 times as long on 120v as they would on 130v...
As for the red bulb, could it be a safelight bulb for use in darkrooms?
streetlight98   [Mar 09, 2013 at 06:39 PM]
the red light is actually much richer of a red in person. The glass is actually black but the filament and light looks red through the glass. I don't know what it was used for. It was in my aunt's grandpa's house with the other two lamps.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Mar 10, 2013 at 04:02 AM]
This isn't the house with the preheat F40 fixtures in the garage and the T17 fixtures in the basement is it? Sounds like your relatives' houses have all sorts of cool lighting!
streetlight98   [Mar 10, 2013 at 04:24 PM]
Nope. i've never met the person who owned these. My aunt's dad was cleaning out his dad's house, as he passed away a little while back and found these and said I'd probably like them (and boy was he right! Shocked ) He's actually only related to me by marriage. My aunt and uncle's church has these mogul base 300W silverbowl fixtures with rings that look like UFOs. The reason they're keeping them is because that's what they use for heat in the basement in winter, as the heaters don't work. Other wise a F32T8 wrap would do them job just as well. they have F40T12 wrap lights in the meeting room in the basement. Maybe I'll ask if i can retrofit them to T8 sometime... The church doesn't have much money though (probably those 300W beautiful lookig energy suckers lol)

in short, the relatives with the T17s and my grandpa who own's the car shop are blood relatives. The owner of the preheat F40s at my cousins house is related to me by marriage, but we are just as close. My great-aunt said i hve to come to her house sometime so i can clean out her house with all the light related stuff that she doesn't want that was accumilated by my great-grandparents over the years lol.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Mar 11, 2013 at 02:59 PM]
Ahh I see...
migette1   [May 17, 2013 at 07:46 AM]
That beautiful neon (see my comments on that lamp) 120v would seem to be the correct voltage by the glow. They have a resistor in the base to limit the current once again very very rare lamp See my You Tube on these also Migette1 and on the other forums Enjoy!
streetlight98   [May 17, 2013 at 10:04 PM]
ahh thanks. I knew this must have been rare since i've never seen anything like this before.

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