Why can’t they bring back preheat fluorescent lights? They’re much more interesting and not that much inefficient than LEDs, unless if it’s a large commercial building and the lights are being used for more than 8 hours a day.

What grid voltage? Thanks!

Looks nice in there!

In cold it's a normal condition for the fluorescent tube to not start up directly. It is the reason why it has filaments on both ends and in cold they turn on first to heat up the gas inside. Once the gas is heated, it starts to be ignited and lights up

I have collected fluorescent lightbulbs for over 54 years. That would be so much fun to see that in person but I live in Dubuque Iowa and I have no way to get there. That is totally awesome preheat forever.

This used to freak me out when i was a kid

Note: Since making this video, I've learned that the blue-green color is very much normal for these RF tubes, which also get significantly dimmer with use.

It's so pretty

That got spicy there

Cool 😊😊😊😊

Love that startup

2:25 my favorite fan

Or maybe replace a resistor. It looks like a resistor burned out, causing the rheostat to draw more current, which then causes it to not slow down much.

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You could have installed a thermostatic remote and it would be Hampton Bay Windward I.5

nice

Lalusz.

Is it daylight color?

Nice ceiling fan

I recently got two Harbor Breeze Builder’s Series and one of them was like the first Concord Decorama, except that it did work on two speeds, high and medium. High was much slower than low on your Decorama, and medium was extremely slow too. I replaced the capacitor and it now works perfectly.

I’ve watched this video many times and such a great video of an all around beautiful vintage Fluorescent light fixture, What a privilege to own such a rare and beautiful Light ! Roger aka Vintage Fluorescent,

Welcome back!

Where did he get all of those

Your back!

nice video. i like these rare vids. old tech is still good tech

Great ! Using simple components to mate a fluorescent fixture. Props to you !

I’ve seen many dead Alto’s.

Ugh those T8 troffers on the basement ceiling are so ugly!Saw your LG post. That sure was a good riddance! I dislike troffers being surface mounted rather than in a drop ceiling. I just think the part that goes in the ceiling is so ugly, especially when it is angled like that! Even worse when they have those holes that let the light out like that! At least the ones you installed are preheat. The one in the laundry room is also OK in my opinion because it has a cover around it.

amazing video, also if you know: what are those two fixtures with one red fluorescent tube and one black light used for?

The video just randomly ended.

if only the lights were all the same color temperature

dontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayit ...........THEY ARE IN THE BACKROOMS!!!

I love watching these go on sad that LED are taking over I wish someone made an led like bulb that turned on like a fluorescet and other bulbs like mercury and sodium vapor bulbs

I like learning more about these rare lamps when I randomly come across videos like this one you shared with us Nick. Those fittings in themselves I see as artifacts of lighting history, no matter the scope of it's own duration of time in existence in service.

I want to see this in person sometime.

That is a wonderful setup. It’s awesome to see all those preheat lights come on at once!

Jenny...

I got stuff like that too it’s not great we both have stuff like that I’m happy for you

Is that old bulb in your bed lamp a harmony house let me know

SP 35 and warm white are almost like

I have collected fluorescent lightbulbs for over 52 years and still lamb I have a 2 foot fluorescent light fixture that takes six bulbs I can do that too and even more

If this fan is from 84 or around then those arms are original, its a rare variant which they made around then.

That second Wild berry pop tarts light fixture

That Baby square glass biplane light fixture

Cool

Omg where did you get it?

that is awesome. You have some pretty neat fixtures there, I can never find anything like that. any vintage fluorescent lights that I ever find are stupidly expensive because they are "retro" and "industrial" and most of the time people have "upgraded" them to LEDs and ripped out the ballast which makes them garbage anyway. the only ones that I have ever found that are truly vintage came out of abandoned buildings.

These blow more air than 36” originals.

Cool Slo-mo effect when it's turned on :D

Did you quit youtube? These videos are really cool. ngl