RE: UV Compact Fluorescent Bulb Canadian Source?

The dismantling of shop lights to get the goodies is easy and requires not
much more than a simple set of tools. The wiring back together of lights is
also very easy and safe. No power should be running through the wires during
assembly. The wires will be color coded and with wire nuts and tape there
should be no problems to hurting oneself later.

BL, BLB ?? I haven't found a standard yet. I did get back some information
from Philips and GE. The data is tagged with a "fine print disclaimer" that
says that it should only be used as a guide and not as a specification for
applications. So I'd say were not looking at absolutes here. Much of the
power would come from ballast type and wattage.

Eric
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ryberg [mailto:cryberg@comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:03 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: UV Compact Fluorescent Bulb Canadian Source?
>
> Mark,
> The fixtures I used were from www.sciplus.com item 89402 at US
> $16.95
> each. I used six. I'm not recommending these for two reasons. First,
> the
> bulbs, though they worked well as "party lights"--that is, they made stuff
> glow in the dark--were REALLY SLOW for alt photo use. Whether this is
> because they are non-standard or what, I don't know, but I tossed the
> bulbs
> and replaced them with US$5 apiece BL tubes. Second, the ballasts and
> sockets have to be cut out of the existing fixtures and mounted in your
> home-made unit. This was not at all difficult, but if you have not done
> some dismantling of electric equipment and lack wiring experience, I
> wouldn't recommend it.
> I'm pretty sure you can find ballasts and sockets which don't have to
> be removed from existing fixtures or even existing fixtures which will
> work
> without being dismantled. Add in the waste of tossing the tubes and I
> don't
> think these are a good buy.
> Charles Portland OR
Received on Thu Dec 22 13:21:47 2005