RE: UV Compact Fluorescent Bulb Canadian Source?

Hi Mark

Here's a quote by Sandy King from an article he posted on Ed Buffalo's
site Unblinkingeye. I think he meant electronic where it says "Electric"
as all the ballasts are electric.

"Electric rather than magnetic ballast is to be preferred because it
gives a more constant output, runs cooler and generates about 10% more
lumens per watt."

http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Light/light.html

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark MacKenzie [mailto:m.mackenzie@sasktel.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:07 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: UV Compact Fluorescent Bulb Canadian Source?

Hello Charles, thank you for the information. I had been planning to
use tubes and then the possibility of saving about 1/4 to 1/3 the
initial construction costs by using the compact fluorescents caught my
attention.

I will take your comments into serious consideration. Certainly there
is much more "experience" out there with the tube types.

What ballast type did you go with? There appears to be a recommendation

from people like Sandy King (APUG list?) to go with "magnetic" type
starters. I think a lighting engineer also recommended going to a
ballast type which had a much higher wattage factor.

Regards

Mark MacKenzie

ryberg wrote:

>Mark,
> There are two schools of thought on black light bulbs. Some
respected
>list members insist there is little or no difference--for alt photo
>users--between BLB and BL tubes; others insist that the BLB tubes are
much
>slower than the BL tubes. As far as I know, all the screw-in black
light
>bulbs are BLB.
>
>

>snip
>

>Yours,
>Charles Portland OR
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>
>
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Received on Thu Dec 22 07:05:08 2005