Ah made by Lithonia eh? They have some really cool fixture designs but since the 90s their fixtures (namely referring to fluorescents) have been pretty junky. Hopefully this exit sign is either made well or it's NOS from before Lithonia started using thinner gauge steel and crappier ballasts. The Lithonia ballasts were actually good up until a few years ago when they started using that "Accupro" crap lol. My 2006 Lithonia 3X F32T8 parabolic troffer has a Sylvania Quicktronic ballast, which is probably the best electronic ballast out there currently. I generally find that Cooper Metalux fixtures are built better though.
Lithonia is all crap the exit is made by Light-guard and Chloride engineered Chloride is the name for the best things. Craphonia buys it from the and put their name on it
Oh wow so Lithonia has left the exit sign and emergency lighting business? Or is just their specialty stuff made by others? It's not common for specialty products such as this one to be made by another company and then the company selling it slaps their label on it. Lithonia kinda "plagiarized" the fixture by claiming it's their own.
BTW, I went to Market Basket last Sunday and wow! The store looks really cool inside. It's like a typical 1980s or 1990s store except its brand new! The 8ft T8HO lights are awesome. Never seen T8HO in person. Much better than using a zillion F32T8s lol. Too bad the entire store is lit with Philips Alto lamps. I already noticed a few lamps dead. Altos are junk lol. I saw some Sylvania T5 lamps in the deli area though, which were nice (in louvered fixtures suspended over the counters). Looks like they used a few different color temperatures. I saw 2700K, 3500K, and 4100K and possibly 5000K too. I can see why everyone likes the store, since it's a nice building and all the employees were very friendly.
Lithonia just does that with most of the AAII emergency stuff. Yes the t5s in the deli are bacteria killing (BKL) The store and the lamps are 2 years old now I love the store
They can't bacteria killing lamps. If that were the case you wouldn't be able to be around them. They're called germicidal lamps and emit a blue light and lots of harmful UV rays, which kill germs, but will also severely burn your skin and eyes. The lamps are easy to spot because they're clear (no phosphors on the tube). These T5s I'm talking about were in suspended fixtures over the counters and had Sylvania T5 tubes (I think 3500K).
Ah yeah no worries. Germicidal lamps are typically used in stuff like cabinets for safety goggles (to sterilize them). My school has some of those cabinets with Sylvania F15T8 Germicidal lamps. The cabinets have little buttons that get pushed in by the doors when the cabinet doors are closed, closing the circuit and turning on the lamp. It's very important that the light only comes on when the doors are closed so that no light from it escapes the cabinet and comes in contact with skin or eyes, as it can cause permanent damage.
I think Germicidal lamps are also used to sterilize water in poor countries, though it's not a reliable way to filter the water, just kills the bacteria in it. Pretty scary lamps! you can view them through a glass though, as glass blocks UV rays. Germicidal lamps are actually quartz, which allows the harmful UV rays to pass through. If the tube was glass, the harmful UVs would be contained within the tube.
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BTW, I went to Market Basket last Sunday and wow! The store looks really cool inside. It's like a typical 1980s or 1990s store except its brand new! The 8ft T8HO lights are awesome. Never seen T8HO in person. Much better than using a zillion F32T8s lol. Too bad the entire store is lit with Philips Alto lamps. I already noticed a few lamps dead. Altos are junk lol. I saw some Sylvania T5 lamps in the deli area though, which were nice (in louvered fixtures suspended over the counters). Looks like they used a few different color temperatures. I saw 2700K, 3500K, and 4100K and possibly 5000K too. I can see why everyone likes the store, since it's a nice building and all the employees were very friendly.
I think Germicidal lamps are also used to sterilize water in poor countries, though it's not a reliable way to filter the water, just kills the bacteria in it. Pretty scary lamps! you can view them through a glass though, as glass blocks UV rays. Germicidal lamps are actually quartz, which allows the harmful UV rays to pass through. If the tube was glass, the harmful UVs would be contained within the tube.