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    Posted 3 years ago

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    One of the tasks accomplished today was rescuing these from hazardous to safe storage, with a proper box(es) and packing material instead of laying loose in an attic. :-) [free access to an organ shop is handy, for getting crates this size?!] I've had all but one (the green) of them for a long time, they were salvaged from a small 1960's auditorium building shortly before it was razed, where they had served as "cove lighting". I've actually had that green one longer, it used to be part of the border of a storefront sign -- all the others light with a 'cool white' color similar to a typical fluorescent tube.

    ANYWAY. Pic 2 shows three (of 7 total) that are 8-1/2' long and 1" diameter, pic 3 is lettering on their tubes reading "4300 SUPRO 4300". Pic 4 is a closer look at their electrodes with the tape measure, and also shows how most of them have white wall paint slopped all over them, it should be rather easily removable.

    The first pic shows the green tube (also typically smaller in diameter) which is a little under 8' long, also the three shorter 'white' tubes that came with the others, all LIT UP!! :-) :-) They are seen here (very!) temporarily rigged up together and connected to an old 6KV transformer that was handy -- I showed it here a little while ago, and now I finally know that it actually *works* too, as well as looking fun?!! <lol>

    https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/297700-general-electric-luminous-tube-transform

    The transformers that originally fired all the white tubes (+ more that were pre-broken, thus left behind) have been seen here too.

    https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/297655-pair-of-acme-cold-cathode-fluorescent-li

    I'm plotting to install a pair of the big ones in my front room where they'll again serve as indirect cove-lighting. (mostly?) Two more might end up becoming (a form of?) 'landscape lighting', but that'd be a slightly more extensive project...if maybe a more-funnerer one too, so we'll see what happens...?? ;-) ;-) :-) :-) :-)

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    1. BHIFOS BHIFOS, 3 years ago
      Make sure you watch out on those transformer secondaries or Ouch! :)

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