are those those ballasts with the green cases? i heard those stink lol.
I hope to be able to get some of the fluorescent fixtures in my family within the next couple years. First, that preheater in my grandpa's shop. I think he wants to sell the shop in the future. I don't know how long it'll be so I want to get that fixture in his bathroom down. Then those three preheaters in my cousin's grandma's garage because the T8 fixtures are right there waiting to be installed along with the lamps. The fixtures have really shallow ballast housings so they probably have oval-case GE tulamp ballasts.
Those Sylvania CWP lamps are doing well in the fixtures too!
So as of today, I could repalce those four fixtures without needing to buy any lamps or fixtures! So they're free basically! I bought the ballast and lamps for the fixture going to my grandpa's shop with a gift card.
After those fixtures, my next priorety is the fixtures at my great-aunt's house. That includes the two other Western Electric F20 fixtures and KEN-RAD lamps, the 8ft tandem preheat fixture, and the T17 fixture. and I'd be retrofitting the two strip lights in the garage to T8. I know I want to wait to get the fixtures until i get my own place but I'll cram as many fixtures as i can into the shed at this point. If they're in my shed I can rest assured knowing that the fixtures are in my hands.
I don't think I'd need to get replacements for the 8ft tandem light or the T17 fixture, as she doesn't use them to begin with. I will need to get replacements for the basement F20 WE fixtures. Probably either F17T8 strips or wraps or F32 strips, wraps, or shoplites.
As for the fixtures at my aunt and uncle's, they're being taken down anyways so i'm not responsible for getting the new fixtures.
My uncle is just going to have the basement rewired for "regular lights" though. By that i assume he means keyless sockets wired to a wall switch...
Lastly, my priorety is my grandparents' house, which has the second T17 fixture, the four F40T12 Western Electric fixtures, the NOS LOA shoplite, an NOS F14T12 TS strip light, and the three lamp F20T12 halfpiper. Plus there are some vintage incandscent lamps that I'd like to have and I'd leave them with an equal number of newer lamps. This one is my least priorety since it'd be the most expensive plus i see them the most so i don't have to worry about the fixtures "disappearing" or becoming unavailable to me for some reason. I would be using five F32T8 strip lights to replace the 3 F40T12 lights, the T17, and the F20 half piper. Maybe i can get away with a cheapo F32 shoplite to replace the T17... But bottom line, it won't be cheap...
The good thing for these replacements is that the fixtures tend to be in different rooms so i don't have to worry about getting all the same fixtures, which means if i see some newer T8 fixtures at the Restore I can get those and use them.
So here's my list of upplies i need in total:
- (7) T8 fluorescent fixtures (either all F32T8 or two F17T8 and five F32T8)
- (2) F32T8 fluorescent ballasts
- (6) bi-pin sockets
- (17) F32T8 fluorescent lamps.
so this will be costly and i'll only be using the cheap crap...