Gallery of Lights


Home Login
Album list Last uploads Last comments Most viewed Top rated My Favorites Search
Home > User galleries > dor123 > Videos
An experiment: Microwaving a chinese worn out GE Standard T5 F8W/33 lamp in my mother microwave oven.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--NJiAU2aYo] Video here [/url]
I set the microwave to 10 secs, but stopped shortly because i feared from lamp explosion as a result of possible increase in the mercury vapour pressure and glass softening.
The lamp produced very intensive pure white light that was similar in brightness to a T5 HO or even T5 VHO (Philips have T5 VHO lamps of 95W and 120W) lamp and even slightly more.
The lamp also flickered at the mains frequency (50hz), because this is the coupling frequency of the magnetron (This isn't an inverter microwave oven).
Keywords: Lamps

An experiment: Microwaving a chinese worn out GE Standard T5 F8W/33 lamp in my mother microwave oven.

Video here
I set the microwave to 10 secs, but stopped shortly because i feared from lamp explosion as a result of possible increase in the mercury vapour pressure and glass softening.
The lamp produced very intensive pure white light that was similar in brightness to a T5 HO or even T5 VHO (Philips have T5 VHO lamps of 95W and 120W) lamp and even slightly more.
The lamp also flickered at the mains frequency (50hz), because this is the coupling frequency of the magnetron (This isn't an inverter microwave oven).

Fullscreen_capture_29102010_120906.jpg Neon_sign_failure.jpg Fullscreen_capture_17122010_205911.JPG Traffic_lights_in_Hadar_city_center_of_Haifa.jpg HPS_cycling_on_semiparalel_ignitor.jpg
File information
Filename:Fullscreen_capture_17122010_205911.JPG
Album name:dor123 / Videos
Keywords:Lamps
Company and Date Manufactured:GE, Hungary, made in China
Model Number:GE Standard T5 F8W/33
Wattage:8W
Lamp Type:Short 5" diameter linear fluorescent lamp
Filesize:81 KiB
Date added:Dec 20, 2010
Dimensions:1280 x 1024 pixels
Displayed:119 times
URL:http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=4306
Favorites:Add to Favorites

Comment 1 to 2 of 2
Page: 1

rjluna2   [Dec 20, 2010 at 08:32 PM]
That is really crazy Razz
A_lights   [Apr 28, 2012 at 01:28 PM]
I did something similar with a dead175W MV lamp and it actually worked after that! Shortly after it died again though

Comment 1 to 2 of 2
Page: 1