LOL my 7th grade english teacher & her family apparently also call them boob lights too and funny thing is that my 7th grade enlish teacher was a female lol. Yeah a circline conversion would be really cool but like you said, way too dim considering the 60W incandescents aren't even enough. Ours are really small. Less than a foot in diameter. I've seen bigger ones. I'm just not a fan of the design in general though I do sorta like mine since the glass is sorta prismatic instead of opal. Yep, we have two of those mushroom lights that look
this here, brass and everything. They're Ok looking but they have like foil paper reflectors inside that i swear is a fire hazard. Every time i change a lamp the reflector sheds some black pebble things so there's always crap in the glass since I'll wash the glass and then install it and then the crap falls off from me setting the glass into place and tightening the screws.
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Those are even smaller than the boob lights and use two lamps. They have two 60W incandescents. Those are nice and bright. I don't know why they didn't use two-lamp lights in the basement...
I've noticed the high pitched buzz in certain instances but not all. Probably because some have enclosed lamps so i don't hear it... For fixtures, I like those globe lights (fixtures with one vertical lamp and a glass globe) and I also like
this style globe Neither would look good in my house though. I love stained glass chandeliers and table lamps but my mom insists that they're too gothic lol.
For the basement, since it's finished, I'd like a lensed fixture. I have a 4X F20T12/TS cloud/puff wraparound fixture but I don't have two of them. The 1X2 2X F20T12 surface mount fixture doesn't come close to matching it. Ah your getting a bunch of F15s and F20s? How many? I have five F20 Fixtures. Two 2X, two 1X, and one 4X. All are trigger start exept one, the single lamp undercabinet light. I have three F15 fixtures, all single lamp. Two are NOS strips and the other is an undercabinet light for preheat F15T8s only. Oen of my strips will operate both F15T12s and F15T8s but the other won't start T8s unless you touch the lamp because I guess the lamp is too far away. It won't even start T12s ungrounded. The other strip, also with a universal ballast, will start fine ungrounded. Both are fairly new, though the one that struggles starting is older, its our age, from 1998.
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I have a lot of F20 lamps but not a whole lot of fixtures. I have mostly F40 fixtures but not a whole lot of F40T12 lamps considering. I have three F15T12s and five or six F15T8s. All are cool white except for one F15/WW GE HOME LIGHT.. I have a ton of F14s considering I only have the one fixture. I have about two dozen of them. All are vintage though so I don't want to blow through then all. right now the F14 over my bed (my only F14 fixture) is running a Westinghouse F14/CW. I'd run a daylight but I only have three daylight F14s, a 1956 GE that I will NOT use up, and two Sylvanias from Darren that are from the past 10 years or so. Post 2003, as they have the (Hg) logo.