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After I have owned this American Electric R175M 175W H39 mercury vapor yardblaster security light for a while, I have not gotten around to filming it with a proper 175W H39 mercury vapor lamp until now. In this video, you can see it using a Philips-Westinghouse Lifeguard 175W H39 mercury vapor lamp with a clear BT28 envelope. I decided to remove the Philips SI51 ignitor so that the fixture runs...

After having my rare Sylvania diffused 150W Unalux high pressure sodium retrofit lamp for a while, I have decided to make a video of the lamp running in my American Electric R175M 175W H39 mercury vapor yardblaster security light. I decided to remove the Philips SI51 ignitor from the fixture so that I can minimize any possible damage to the lamp.

Since I have been recently toying with the idea of running dedicated base up burn 175W M57 probe start metal halide lamps in my American Electric R175M 175W H39 mercury vapor yardblaster security light with the added European Philips SI51 ignitor, I decided to get myself this Venture Lighting MS175W/C/BU/3K 175W M57 probe start metal halide lamp for this fixture. Even though the lamp looks yell...

In case you have never seen a hot restrike of a probe start metal halide lamp on a HX autotransformer ballast, here is an example of a 175W M57 probe start metal halide lamp hot restriking on a 175W H39 mercury vapor HX autotransformer ballast in a yardblaster fixture.

After having this American Electric R175M dusk to dawn 175W H39 mercury vapor yardblaster security light fixture that I converted to 175W M57 probe start metal halide by adding a European Philips SI51 2 wire parallel soft ignitor to the original low power factor HX autotransformer 175W H39 mercury vapor ballast for a number of years, I decided to mount it to my bedroom wall because I am interes...

What you see here is an Osram HQI-T 250W/D pulse start metal halide lamp designed for the European market running in a grow light fixture that uses a North American 250W S50 high pressure sodium CWA ballast. The reason I used a North American 250W S50 high pressure sodium ballast for this Osram pulse start metal halide lamp is due to the fact they have virtually the same arc voltage drop and op...

After reexploring my first neighborhood as a child, I had noticed that my childhood Burger King had closed down for good. It was one of the first restaurants that I have ever eaten out at during my life. Upon exploring the abandoned Burger King, I have noticed that one of the light fixtures that lit up the drive thru menu had sported a Sylvania F36T12/CW/HO fluorescent tube. I decided to take t...

In case you haven’t seen the European Philips SI51 750-1000V 2 wire parallel ignitor inside my 175W H39 mercury vapor yardblaster fixture that I converted to 175W M57 probe start metal halide, here is a video of it firing up a Sylvania 175W M57 probe start metal halide lamp. I added this ignitor to the fixture for this conversion because it is quite a common practice in Europe to see probe star...

Here is an interesting HID lamp experiment that I did: I have used a Philips BodyTone 120-180W tanning bed fluorescent glowbottle starter to run a 175W M57 probe start metal halide lamp on a 175W H39 mercury vapor yardblaster ballast!!!! I got inspiration for this experiment after seeing that some Japanese market metal halide retrofit lamps designed for use on mercury vapor ballasts often use i...

Here is a tour of the preheat fluorescent lighting that I currently have in use in my college dorm.

I decided to import this Japanese Toshiba FP-3011GA preheat circline fluorescent pendant light fixture into the USA for my collection because the seller had said that the fixture was manufactured in 1955, which makes it one of the first circline fluorescent fixtures that were commercially available for the Japanese domestic market since circline fluorescent lamps were first introduced into Japa...

Have you ever known that FML27 CFL fixtures were made with preheat ballasts from the factory? What you see here is a Japanese preheat FML27 CFL desk lamp that I imported from Japan that uses a 100V 50Hz ballast and a screw in E17 base FG-1E glowbottle starter instead of a manual push button switch that is used on most preheat fluorescent desk lamps.

Baldwin Filters Neon Products Incorporated 32W preheat circline fluorescent wall clock

Japanese Toshiba FE5P Electronic Pulse Starter for Fluorescent Lamps

Nu-Lite 2 lamp F40 preheat fluorescent tube shoplight fixture

Japanese 100V 50Hz National HD500 FCL32 preheat louvered circline fluorescent pendant fixture

Farewell Tribute to European Fluorescent Lighting

EOL Fluorescent lamp behavior with air thermal starter

22w T9 Preheat Circline Fluorescent Adapter Hack

EOL National 18w FCL20 circline fluorescent lamp

Japanese 2 Lamp Preheat 30w T9 Circline Fluorescent Pendant Fixture

Electrified Herodian Terracotta Oil Lamp

TCP 30w T9 circline fluorescent lamp running on 28w 2 pin PL preheat CFL series choke ballast

1960s Fleur-O-Ray 22w T9 preheat circline fluorescent adapter mounted to bare bulb table lamp

1960s Fleur-O-Ray 22w T9 Preheat Circline Fluorescent Adapter

Bedroom Ceiling Fan Light Kit Converted to 22w T9 Preheat Circline Fluorescent!!!!

Lights of America Model 4025 instant 22w T9 preheat circline fluorescent fixture

FPL13 CFL lamps imported from China running in my homemade preheat CFL adapter

Cool White FPL18 CFL lamps imported from China running on my homemade preheat CFL adapter