the death of a fluorescent lamp vol. II (it gets scary) THE BULB HOME 2022-03-04 | Take a look with me at the way a fluorescent tube reaches end of life running on an electronic ballast.Presumably this show is created by the high voltage supplied by the ballast when it detects the electrode is broken and starts to run the lamp as it was a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL), which ironically gets really hot and melts the bases.This time it was taken to the extreme, to the point the lamp fell off on my hands!
RESTORING A PREHEAT LAMP! THE BULB HOME 2021-06-03 | THANK YOU FOR THE 1K SUBSCRIBERS!In this video I restore a really rundown preheat F20T12 lamp that was in an old house my father was remodeling in Coyoacán, Mexico City.It dated back to the 1960's and, as expected, had a ton of old lightning equipment. This old lamp turned out to be an amazing DIY project for me!Hope you like this video!Music:––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––A New Year by Scott Buckley soundcloud.com/scottbuckleyCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/_a-new-yearMusic promoted by Audio Library youtu.be/FrLsadzQ2qc––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
UNBOXING 8 F48T12 VINTAGE SLIMLINE GE TUBES!!! THE BULB HOME 2020-09-08 | Don't miss out anything on the video!(00:00) Unboxing!(02:10) Bulb review(05:21) Testing!!Batch #1 and instructions to install an SlimLine tube!(09:01) How SlimLine tube works!(10:17) Testing batch #2Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoy this video as much as I did!Thank you to my eBay seller for sending me 2 more and being so careful on the packaging!!
A BOX FULL OF F20T12 TUBES! (and reviewing 6 of them!) THE BULB HOME 2020-08-27 | Hope you like these really old new stock!Made by Philips in 1996 and never used!Enjoy!Photos of the box by Meylar López Bass
ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR A BROKEN PL-S FLUORESCENT LAMP | WILL IT WORK? THE BULB HOME 2020-08-03 | In this video I attempt to repair a broken PL-S bulb that the electrodes do have continuity but the starter or condenser doesn't seem to work...Will I accomplish fixing the bulb?Hope you like the video!Song: Tokyo Music Walker — Colorful flowersyoutube.com/watch?v=skwq65AZXg4––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Colorful Flowers by Tokyo Music Walker soundcloud.com/user-356546060 Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/al-colorful-flowersMusic promoted by Audio Library youtu.be/vYp14UesizY––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
ByL H-5A 3x PL-S FLUORESCENT FIXTURE + H-7A MERCURIAL FIXTURES!!! THE BULB HOME 2020-07-29 | Hello there! In this video we take a closer look to an interesting area lights developed by a mexican brand called ByL with two models: H-5A that is a fluorescent fixture which uses a trio of 13W PL-S non-integrated fluorescent lamps that pulls off a good show of preheat each time it starts and also the Mercury Vapor counterpart, the H-7A, which the one I got is really damaged by the action of a truck, so we can't see it in action! Hope I'll get a functioning one soon!
Really loud and noisy old fluorescent preheat fixture from 1967! THE BULB HOME 2020-07-20 | This is a really old and noisy fixture from 1967! Just listen to those sounds and watch how it flickers when it starts!! Just amazing! The humming from the ballast must be produced by the old magnetic core being separated by wear and heat.I think it is a 40W linear fluorescent, with a Sylvania starter... I don't know what kind of ballast it uses, but as this is located on a really old house dating back to 1968, which is just about to get through a process of remodeling, so I'll try to keep the ballast, starter (and perhaps the bulb) to myself.
A final attempt to turn on the old General Electric metal halide bulb THE BULB HOME 2020-07-12 | This is the last time I'm gonna turn on the bulb because it may explode as every packaging alerts when Metal Halide reach the end of life...
SOLAR 175W Mexican Mercury Vapor BT28 bulb! THE BULB HOME 2020-06-22 | Hello to everyone in the world!Today we took a closer look to my old SOLAR 175W Mercury Vapor lamp! SOLAR was a mexican brand before other companies arrived to the country in the 1990s with the NAFTA and destroyed little goverment-helped brands like SOLAR was!It was probably based on Sylvania-made bulbs, but anyway, as you can see it's a very good product! Color reproduction is awesome for a not-so-thick phosphor coating and it puts out an amazing output of light!
METAL HALIDE FAIL: Unsuccessful attempt to start an old metal halide THE BULB HOME 2019-04-25 | I was trying on a new bulb for my M400. I decided to go with the older one, a GE 400W Metal Halide lamp, but it was worthless.
A BEAUTIFUL M400A STREET LAMP THE BULB HOME 2019-04-05 | I FINALLY GOT ONE OF THOSE BEAUTIFUL LAMPS. Tell me, which other bulb you want to see next on my M400A lamp? :)
Philips HPL-N 250W Antique Mercury Vapor Light Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2018-07-27 | Got one more amazing vintage mercury vapor bulb. This one was made by Philips almost 34 years ago and had never been used before!The little instruction sheet found inside the bulb sleeve that is written in spanish says as follows:-HIGH PRESSURE MERCURY VAPOR LAMP-INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE INSTALLERThis high pressure mercury vapor lamp must be used with an appropriate ballast type that complies with the specifications written by the Mexican Official Norm (NOM) J-222PRECAUTIONS FOR THE USERIn regards of the big temperature difference between the inside of the lamp and the outer portion of the bulb, the glass surface must not be scratched nor subjected to water splashing of any kind, either natural or artificial.If the outer bulb brakes, lamp must be turned off immediately as the ultraviolet radiation produced by the arc tube can produce damages in the near surroundings (skin burn, eye damage, plastic deterioration, garden poisoning, etc)Lamp must not be installed nor removed when power is on over the circuit.Philips will not assume any responsibilities in regards to personal or equipment damage that could develop from an inappropriate use of the lamp or for using not-appropriate equipment.--
the death of a fluorescent lamp THE BULB HOME 2017-11-04 | T12 end of life running on an electronic ballast.
250W MERCURY STREET LAMP. THE BULB HOME 2016-09-01 | I finally got the time to make a video of my Mercury Vapor street lamp, which I have it for a long time ago but never got the opportunity to show it to you.So here it finally is, enjoy!
Sylvania 100W Mercury Vapor Bulb + Ballast (intro & test) THE BULB HOME 2016-08-16 | I got this little boy to use it a lot as is an MV that doesn't waste much power and has a really good color rendering. I'm planning making a homemade fixture with this bulb and it's ballast to light my room occasionally.
(2/2: Warming Up) LUXRAM 250W Mercury Vapor BT-28 Clear-Ender Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2016-08-12 | Watch the introduction video: youtu.be/S6Hin_pJlVUThe warming up of my new LUXRAM 250W Mercury Vapor BT-28 Clear-Ender bulb on my ByL H40 street lamp.
(1/2: Intro) LUXRAM 250W Mercury Vapor BT-28 Clear-Ender Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2016-08-12 | Watch the warming up video: youtu.be/J4A1z0joPqY
MAGG Fluorsaver-900S 9W PL-S Adapter With Philips Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2016-08-09 | Here is my new Fluorsaver Compact Fluorescent adapter, along with a Philips bulb, hope you like it!
Philips SOX-E 18W Low Pressure Sodium Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2016-07-22 | I finally got a SOX LPS bulb for my collection!Unfortunately I don't have a ballast yet, so I can't light it for you...As soon as I get the new ballast I will make a video of this thing running and the link will be down below.
1980s General Electric Preheat Circline T9 Lamp (Bad video quality, dont know why) THE BULB HOME 2015-12-25 | This video was uploaded with 720p HD but after a couple of months it started to look only in 240p. If you know why this happened or how to correct it please tell me!Here you can see a really old lamp, manufactured by GE in the mid-1980's. At first I thought it was from the 1960's but is not.It still works with it's original bulb and has a magnetic ballast that makes some good sounds!
Four 150W High Pressure Sodium Fixtures Cycling. THE BULB HOME 2014-12-29 | I found this lamps on a wall over a mini-market and I found them really interesting because of it's quick cycling turning ON and OFF really fast.There is no doubt that they had reach end-of-life a long, long time ago.According to a little wattage sticker they have, ‘15’, they are 150W High Pressure Sodium Lamps.
Sony SLV-X533 VHS Videocassette Recorder. THE BULB HOME 2014-12-22 | This is another Sony VHS, but this one is a little newer than my SLV-L4.This is supposed to be more like sophisticated, but the quality is less, except for some characteristics.
Sony SLV-L4 VHS Videocassette Recorder. THE BULB HOME 2014-12-07 | This is how my old Sony 4-head SLV-L4 VHS system works! I actually like a lot this VHS, and when the Internet gets slow, you don't need to wait until your video charges, it just plays without interruptions.Let me tell you some of this machine's history; my parents bought it when they got married, something about 1994 or so. Then, when VHS got obsolete, they give it to me in order to play with it or something. But with so many years of hard use, some things have been stop working properly, like the cassette elevator for example: sometimes when you introduce a tape, the cassette gets stuck between the upper part and the rollers, so you need to open the videocassette in order to release it. Another thing is that sometimes random the stop mechanism don't work and when you rewind the tape and it gets to the end, the motor makes a mess with the tape.But, displacing those little funny details that actually makes my video mode unique and amazing, the video works simply amazing and I can't imagine an smartphone during that long. This VHS was made when things where made to last, and I think with the proper maintenance it can last forever! Those little problems that I told you before can be easily be repaired shortly and cheaply.
(2/2: Testing) Westinghouse 400W Mercury Vapor Coated Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2014-12-01 | Watch the introduction of this bulb: youtube.com/watch?v=fa6UmjksURo&list=UUu4ArqLE88esAbHHtunVpZgSo I proved the bulb and it do work! It's old, and it have been used for a lot of hours before, I mean it has the arc tube pretty deep blackened. But surprisingly, it still puts an incredibly amount of light, perhaps is just the good quality of old Westinghouse bulbs! This is an excellent bulb, however in the other hand, the phosphorus coating don't work like it is supposed to (the light given is still really green) but it's an old bulb and it had work a lot before, so I don't really care about it, I just love the way this bulb is.Anyway the light output is bright, smooth, and a strange combination between green, yellow and white.Hope you like the video!
(1/2: Intro) Westinghouse 400W Mercury Vapor Coated Cleartopper Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2014-11-30 | This amazing bulb that I just found today in a antique market it's awesome! Made by Westinghouse in the US around 70s or 80s, whit a lot of hours in the arc tube but still unique and beautiful.This is a pure Westinghouse cleartopper Mercury Vapor 400W bulb, with the /W model, that according to some research I made and some guys at Lighting Gallery, its a very hard item to find, this is not made by the Philips/ Westinghouse division, this is only old good Westinghouse.I don't know if it still works but I will find out later!Wanna know if it still works? Watch the test video! youtube.com/watch?v=mgzqGZ7VZVQ&list=UUu4ArqLE88esAbHHtunVpZg
Fluorescent MAGG 13W PL Adapter. THE BULB HOME 2014-11-01 | This is my old MAGG PL adapter that actually works with any fluorescent 13W PL bulb.I like it a lot, and it's really old. The most amazing thing is that it has a circular ballast and that makes it special! But I don't really know how it really works with that circular ballast…
High Pressure Sodium, Metal Halide and Mercury Vapor. THE BULB HOME 2014-08-20 | Here we have the 3 kinds of High Intensity Discharge bulbs firing up at once. As you can see, the dimmest one is the mercury vapor when every bulb has reach full brightness, and that's because the HPS beat up the Mercury Vapor bulb in the market like a year and a half ago, but that doesn't means that MV is a bad and inefficient light bulb. Actually, Mercury Vapor is more efficient than incandescent and maybe even halogen.
250kV & 112kV High Tension Power Lines. THE BULB HOME 2014-08-01 | Now here we have those coast power lines. One line manage 250kV in a really big cream-colored towers. The other line is death and used to carry on 112-115kV on a wood poles until a heavy storm tear all of them apart. The 250kV power line actually have a really interesting trace: they follow all the coast line from a hydroelectric located on a river almost about to lead to the ocean to a considerably big city on an island; On the way between, there are two minor islands, so the lines have to cross over the ocean to reach the other island! You can see it at minute 01:44 on the video! When the power lines cross the ocean, the cables transform to an horizontal position in order to cross over the water with small towers that are not that heavy, and reduce risk of collapse.
Dangerous Broken Old 105kV Death Power Line. THE BULB HOME 2014-07-21 | Today I saw this amazingly dangerous thing! This are an old horizontal 105kV power line. But as you can see, those poles are broken! That is extremely dangerous but no-one seems to care about cause' the line is death, the cables has no current on, but anyway, IT CAN COLLAPSE AND CAUSE SERIOUS INJURIES ON PEOPLE DOWN THE HILL! It's amazing how the electrical apartment don't give a shit on their electrical installations. This is actually really serious and I don't know why, for the love of god, they don't turn down this old poles!
Retro Westinghouse I.E.M. Portable Table Fan. THE BULB HOME 2014-07-21 | Here you have my little old portable table fan made by I.E.M. Westinghouse around 60's - 70's. I like it a lot, but I don't use it much because it don't really make a lot of wind and it just can't refresh my room. But it's a pleasure to have it; it is really unique and an antique. ❤️
The Pole In The Middle Of The Storm. THE BULB HOME 2014-07-20 | Our street power pole in the middle of a big lightning storm. Tonight, the 3-phased 34kV pole had to beat hard winds, rain and a curious set of lightning flashes all over the sky.As you notice in the video, the HPS street lamp was turned OFF, this because of the transformer's blow-up minutes earlier. Very poet and relaxing seeing that scene of the pole in the middle of the storm. And that's a cool name for some kind or novel or stuff: «The Pole In The Middle Of The Storm».
Powerful 500kV High Tension Power Lines. THE BULB HOME 2014-07-19 | One of the most powerful and dangerous lines: 500kV 3-phase line. I really like those; they are big and beautiful but really, really dangerous. This are double circuit 3-phase.
250kV High Tension Power Lines. THE BULB HOME 2014-07-15 | Here you have an 6-phased 250kV lines interconnection. This power Lineas are really interesting, specially the connection tower which have different arms to distribute the cables over there.
Tubular 208kV High Tension Power Lines. THE BULB HOME 2014-07-02 | Here we have this amazing tubular-shaped towers power line carrying 208kV. They are really awesome, I love that shaped that they have. Also almost get killed while filming this video because this towers are in a really dangerous place near a big fish market. But they where near a train station so I didn't need to walk much in those streets.
Small Old 105kV And Big Newer 220kV Power Lines. THE BULB HOME 2014-07-01 | As you may notice on my channel before (it's pretty obvious) I love almost anything that works with that beautiful magic (but dangerous) power called electricity! The light bulbs are one of my favorite electric devices, but I love high voltage power lines and stuff as well!So for now on I'm going out to film every big and beautiful high voltage power line across my city! All my work it's going to be available in my brand new playlist called "Power Lines" (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmejzELXkGZhjNiDb0WtNIP5xTT7OmYK). Hope you like it!Anyway, I almost get killed while filming those towers showed in the following video; they are in a really dangerous suburb near the city! But I survived and took the train back home in one piece :3. There are two lines (6 phases each one); the small structure ones carry 105kV according to their nameplate but I'm no sure if they are still in service nowadays. The green big conical ones serves 220kV, and I really but really love those V-Shaped ceramic insulators that they use up there!
132kV Old High Tension Power Lines. THE BULB HOME 2014-06-29 | Here you have this beautiful 132kV high tension power lines near my uncle's house. I really like the shape of this kind of towers with 3 live phases. They are old, so they are really short; some towers have been replaced because of that issue as you can see on the video. Anyway they are still in use and I love them. ❤️
Philips 175W Clear Mercury Vapor Firing Up. THE BULB HOME 2014-05-09 | This is my Philips 175W mercury vapor firing up. I like a lot this bulb; it is kinda' special for me for some reasons and the way I got it is kinda' funny; it was inside an old NEMA fixture mounted in a short pole, used to light an abandoned parking lot when this was in use. But since it closed in 2003, this bulb was unused for about 9 years, full of dirt and careless. The pole was so short that I can even reach it with an small escalator, so I bring one from home and took the bulb away.
(2/2: Testing) Philips 175W Clear Mercury Vapor Lamp. THE BULB HOME 2014-05-07 | Watch the introduction to this bulb: http://youtu.be/6p9RQUkVfGYNow the time had arrive to figure out if this bulb do work or not anymore!
(1/2: Intro) Philips 175W Clear Mercury Vapor Lamp. THE BULB HOME 2014-05-07 | Watch the bulb test: http://youtu.be/CusvqpSDJcYIt's funny how I got this bulb: it was in a fixture mounted over a small pole that used to light a parking lot. Now it is abandoned, I don't know why, but the pole was really short (with a little escalator I can actually reach it easily), so I bring one and took the bulb apart. The fixture obviously not because it is big, full of all kind insects and it isn't anything of another world: just another old NEMA-head 175W one... I already have one, so I didn't want it.
Broken 100W Mercury Vapor In Action! THE BULB HOME 2014-05-04 | This is an old 100W Mercury Vapor bulb that I found it in a trash can. It was already broken, so I finished the job and notice that it used to be a self-ballasted one with no ballast required, but the outer bulb was gone, and I just can't run naked the filament (anyway, it was broken as well). If I wanted to run it, I need to twist the main electrode cable of the arc tube to the line cable. So I did it and now, following the proper protection protocols, I can run this thing safely (more or less). ⚠️DANGER⚠️ DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUN A MERCURY VAPOR OR ANY TYPE OF HID NAKED ARC TUBE WITHOUT A PREVIOUS PROTOCOL OF PRECAUTIONS AND THE PREVIOUSLY KNOWLEDGE. NOT FOLLOWING THIS INSTRUCTIONS CAN CAUSE A SERIOUS EYE INFLAMMATION OR SKIN BURN BECAUSE OF THE SHORTWAVE ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION EMITTED.
Philips 80s Aero IV Celling Fan (Hall). THE BULB HOME 2014-04-25 | This is my mid 1980's Philips Aero IV celling fan.
Philips 80s Aero IV Celling Fan (Living Room). THE BULB HOME 2014-04-24 | This is my Philips Aero IV celling fan, made in the mid 1980's, I think. This one works in my living room of my vacation house.
Self-Ballasted 100W Mercury Vapor Lamp. THE BULB HOME 2014-04-02 | My first self-ballasted mercury vapor lamp! This bulb has an small arc tube built in series with an incandescent tungsten filament that works like a ballast for the bulb. This one is 100W and works with 120V.
General Electric Vintage 400W Coated Mercury Vapor. THE BULB HOME 2014-03-29 | This is one of my favorite bulbs that I have in my collection! I love it! General Electric vintage 400W mercury vapor bulb with a special luxurious phosphor coating that makes the light incredibly better and smoother. By the end of the video, you can see the bulb turning on!
General Electric 250W Coated Mercury Vapor Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2014-03-29 | This is my General Electric 250W Mercury Vapor bulb.Now, I like this bulb, is pretty unique and it is already used so it has a little history behind it. Got them with a sleeve that don´t matches with the bulb. The sleeve is from a similar bulb made by Osram. This bulb is actually General Electric, and it work amazing, gives some good light but it has little withe spots all over the arc tube, meaning that the bulb is in the middle of its useful life.
Osram 22W CFL Adapter/Circline Fluorescent Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2014-03-29 | I got this bulb really cheap at the supermarket. Nothing of the other world; just and ordinary made-in-China CFL, but I like it and you can still can use the ballast adapter with a new bulb when the old one reaches the end of it's life.
The Finds Of The Day 7. THE BULB HOME 2014-03-29 | Really cool items here! I got them today at two different stores. The stuff here are the following (click on the timer to see each item)1. Osram LUNAPET-EL 22W CFL (00:00)2. GE 250W Coated Mercury Vapor (00:35)3. My favorite find: GE deluxe 400W Coated Mercury Vapor (01:32)Thanks for watching!
Hot-Restrike of a Philips 250W Metal Halide Bulb. THE BULB HOME 2014-03-26 | I accidentally turned off the bulb while it was warming up (turned on for like 2 minutes) so I plugged back in and apparently it was hot enough for not restriking instantly.
Philips 400W Coated Metal Halide Bulb Turning On. THE BULB HOME 2014-03-17 | Again this is my Philips 400W Metal Halide bulb, and one thing that I really like about this bulb is that is coated and warm up pretty fast!
