Hi guys, Claire and I survived the move over the weekend! Just a quick email to say I'm still at this address and will try and get back on line as soon as...
Hi John, Glad to hear it went okay. I bet you're looking forward to setting up the workshop! Adam Adam Lachlan Streetlighting website: Adam's Lights 2 ...
Apparently residents on a new housing estate near where I live have been waiting ten months for the street lights to be switched on, but it's turned out there...
Thanks for that information on SLI lamps Colin If I do get hold of a 60watt one at sometime I do have an 80watt fluorescent ballast similar to your pictured...
Hi John , all I've just come back from the lighting fair in Frankfurt, a regular smorgasbord I'm telling you - well worth a visit but you'll need most of the...
This is phenomenal! What's the name of the street, estate, town? Who are the developers? Gotta get some pictures of that! Could be the answer to a pub quiz...
Hi Colin F Glad to help, re the Capacitor The GEC Z9494 Lantern and Ballast came with a 8.4 uf Capacitor thus I gues a *uf would be Ideal as well as the 10uf ...
Hi All I am trying to find a J1/27, J1/33 or similar Airfield Runway Lamp, but am having No luck, anyway it looks like the AEI.Mazda EL-44 lamp I have, see...
... splitting up, and the move was quite a headache for all the helpers. good luck with the move ... remember what it was like! Back then I didn't even have a...
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Smorgasbord? You sure you were in Germany? ;-) I'm getting to go to Lightfair in Vegas at the end of the month which should be cool...pics to follow hopefully!...
It's the Sandhills estate in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. It's one half of the estate which is in darkness at night, affecting about ten roads and roughly...
Just won a pair of these on Ebay; don't have any gear for them, are there any alternatives to the correct ballast, maybe a fluorescent one, that could be used...
Hi Stephen It's fine to use a 2ft 18/20w Fluorescent Choke with a 35w SOX ignitor accross the lamp as the Lamp voltage (58v) and Lamp Current (0.36a) is the...
Hi Colin/Stephen, Colin is quite correct to suggest a 2ft fluorescent ballast for these, and it will work fine. An alternative ballast to use is one for the...
Hi Phil, all I thought "smorgasbord" might be more universally acceptable than "Brotzeit mit rohfisch und unidentifiziebare eingelegtes zeug". Be that as may,...
Hi Tom, I agree totally with you, and I'm sure we would all enjoy a meeting at a trade show abroad in future years. It would give us all a chance to have a...
Hi all Excellent ! I have an 18watt sox lamp that I am using with a really awkward Philips (with no mounting flanges as such) ballast that was made for one of ...
Hi all, Item no 7411381818 - it has a reserve price and can only be collected (from the Aylesbury area). The seller actually contacted me the other day for...
I've added another photo to my album, a concrete / steel composite witch is different to most of the GECs I have posted, which are also on the same road....
Hi All, I have a friend who has a disco light. The type of lamp in it at the moment is a 150 MBI. I have had a look on various websites and they say that it is...
... Thanks to Colin for sending me a picture of the lantern. I immediately thought of REVO due to the shape of the condensation- proof joint box at the top of...
... ESLA Group "A" Bi-Multi Two-Way 165 degree. In other words, the original 'small' ESLA for staggered, straight road lighting. ESLAs and those large Lucy...
I have no experience of disco lights but a few years ago we had a video projector for which the lamp blew (non passively). When I stripped it apart I found a...
Hi Andrew, Many of the smaller disco type lights do use a standard 150W metal halide lamp. If it is the standard G12 type of two prong base, then chances are a...
Hi Tom, The video projector lamps are somewhat special, in that they are generally a super high pressure mercury lamp fitted to a reflector. These lamps look...
Hi Andrew/Mike I have seen two types of Metal Halide Lamps in Effects Lighting ofr Discos 1st is a standard G12 HQI-T lamp as used in streetlights Display and...
HI Simon Thanks I suspected it to be a REVO, anyway I couldnt find it except for a simmilar/Laterm moder in a 1950s Catalogue All the Best Colin ... Thanks to...
Too right Mike!!! Though there is a funny side to all this. It happened (years ago) whilst I was giving a presentation to the sales team and the awkward sales...
Hi All Hey Tom that sounds like an "Explosive presentation" :). Pleased to hear that know one was hurt. In Jessops they have metal halide display lamps in...
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