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Thrift Store/ReStore find! Went there today, and looked around the electrical stuff. They had lots of goodies, no ballasts though. Sadly. But I did spot TWO parabolic troffer fixtures on sale for TWENTY dollars! Wow that's cheap! These fixtures are usually 200 dollars that I know of. o.o But I scored big time! I have always wanted these kind of fixtures ever since I saw them in different places. And now I gladly own one! Are these types of fixtures used usually at higher-end work offices? Or more higher-end stores, Like target uses a parabolic troffer fixture, or used to. What exactly is the grid-thingy on this thing supposed to do? IS it more for decoration or for to direct the light? I have heard that these fixtures make a kind of... different light than normal troffers. Keywords: Indoor_Fixtures

Thrift Store/ReStore find!

Went there today, and looked around the electrical stuff. They had lots of goodies, no ballasts though. Sadly.

But I did spot TWO parabolic troffer fixtures on sale for TWENTY dollars! Wow that's cheap! These fixtures are usually 200 dollars that I know of. o.o

But I scored big time! I have always wanted these kind of fixtures ever since I saw them in different places. And now I gladly own one!

Are these types of fixtures used usually at higher-end work offices? Or more higher-end stores, Like target uses a parabolic troffer fixture, or used to.

What exactly is the grid-thingy on this thing supposed to do? IS it more for decoration or for to direct the light?

I have heard that these fixtures make a kind of... different light than normal troffers.

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LilCinnamon   [Oct 15, 2011 at 10:23 PM]
What do you guys think of this light? I think this is the exact same kind that was used at my school.
joe_347V   [Oct 15, 2011 at 10:34 PM]
Well twenty bucks for it is a great deal! These are usually better built than those lensed troffers from the box store and those sell for $60 here.
LilCinnamon   [Oct 15, 2011 at 10:37 PM]
Maybe I was thinking cobraheads about price.

But anyway, there were two of them. The one under had two ballast encasings though, this one only had one.

I wonder, why did they use this grid pattern and expose the lamps and most of the insides? I never got that.
joe_347V   [Oct 15, 2011 at 10:49 PM]
I believe the grid was to reduce glare on the old style tube computer monitors, and the two ballast covers are so that the fixture appears more symmetrical.
LilCinnamon   [Oct 15, 2011 at 10:52 PM]
How does it reduce glare?

Also, I wonder why ABOVE the grid thing they didn't cover at least the lamps with a translucent thing.

What do you think of how these fixtures look inside a building?
A_lights   [Oct 16, 2011 at 12:39 AM]
Nice score!
They look good espeecially with 3,500K lamps
LilCinnamon   [Oct 17, 2011 at 04:14 AM]
I think these look good with three 4100k cool white lamps.

At my high school, they had lots of these fixtures. But the janitors there weren't exactly good on keeping the color temperature right, so there were fixtures with three different color temperature lamps, some with two of the same and one different. They had all kinds of different color temperatures there.

Each room had one fixture that when the light string was turned off, (6 fixtures usually) the middle lamp stayed on and didn't turn off with the rest of the lights.
I wonder how they wired it that way.

Anyway.. I wonder if they made these same fixtures with a translucent cover instead of the grid thing, like on a regular troffer but it was this exact kind of fixture...
joe_347V   [Oct 17, 2011 at 04:35 AM]
You mean the spec grade troffers that have a black reveal around them, I've always liked them better than the regular lensed ones.

The crew at my old school likes to mix colour temps too, as for the troffers in your school they must have ordered three lamp dual circuit ones which has two ballasts, one for the outer and one for the inner. They wired them to different switches so that they could keep the middle lamp on.
LilCinnamon   [Oct 17, 2011 at 06:07 AM]
Some of the teachers hated that lamp that stayed on, Because of the glare it gave when watching videos for the class... Sometimes the teachers have unscrewed that lamp because it stayed on and there was no way to turn it off in the room. xD

Is there any of these parabolic troffers with more than three lamps in them?
streetlight98   [Oct 23, 2011 at 01:59 PM]
Yes. I've seen FIVE lamp parabolic troffers at a store. I can't remember where though. These come in 1, 2, 3, 4, and I guess 5 too although I've seen 5 lamp in person, I havn't seen it listed on any catalogs. JC Penny's used 2'x2' parabolic troffers here in their stores. The use those U-bend lamps.
A_lights   [Oct 23, 2011 at 02:31 PM]
I've seen 6 lamp parabolic troffers! I think they were in a sears , there were 4T8s installed tho
streetlight98   [Oct 23, 2011 at 04:23 PM]
BTW, what's a "Thrist Store"? Razz Laughing
joe_347V   [Oct 23, 2011 at 04:39 PM]
It's one of those fancy places that sell overpriced drinks. Laughing Razz

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