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Pretty accurate match
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This fixture is from the 90s sometime (i forget what date the ballast has on it). It's a Cooper Metalux fixture but it looks pretty vintage and is NOS. For $9 at the ReStore i couldn't pass it up. I also got these NOS Philips Econ-o-watt cool white lamps for a dollar each too, from 1997. I think the ballast is from the early-to-mid 90s meaning the fixture is probably from the mid 90s, making it very possible that it wouldn't be installed until around 1997 had it been used. So these lamps are a close enough match for it lol. Plus I have a thrid identical lamp too.
i tested out the ballast, running the F34s for a good two hours and the ballast was only warm, not even hot. Some ballasts would be hot even with full wattage lamps after running that long. So it's a good ballast though. I'm thinking, since magnetic ballasts seem to have an inconsistant ballast factor, RS ballasts with a lower ballast factor will probably run cooler with F34s (and probably even cooler with 40W lamps).
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But yeah it looks more like a older 70s or s 60s light.