Interesting comments, Ron. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: R & S Enterprises To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:27 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] flourescent lights
Hummm. When I was supervisoring the electrical maintenance at the local university the 34 watt super savers as they were called performed fine in the standard 40 watt ballests. The 32 wat would not. I guess your bulbs hasd the plastic coating already on them. A shatter shield was one I was familiar with. They made a plastic sleeve you could slide over a standard bulb which we tried. A lot of the time the head from the lamp would fuse the plastic to the lamp making removal after burn out difficult if not imposssible. Still I think it was cheaper than buying the lamp with the plastic already on the lamp. Well anyway the t 8 lamps do provide more lumens, light, per wat than the t 12 lamps of old.. Wonder how many million of those 40 watt t 12 lamps I have handled?. Guess I didn't offer any advice or suggestions did I, just a little ramblings of times past. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny McHugh To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:51 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] flourescent lights A few weeks ago I mentioned that Karen found some new fluorescent lamps. These bulbs are totally encased in plastic so if dropped or broken there is no glass to clean up. I had these bulbs in for about a month and they burned out. Today I found out that they are 34 watt bulbs and my old fixtures are 40 watt. This caused the bulbs to burn out. When talking to the GE representative about them they are still going to replace them and suggested that I purchase a 34W ballast. I located a new fixture for $10.00 that will accept a 24w, 34w and 40w bulb. I will install this fixture next week. When the other regular 40w bulbs burn out I probably will replace the entire fixture with the new electronic T8 32W bulbs. Talking to a friend earlier this evening he told me that the hospital converted every fluorescent light to these T8 fixtures. He said that they are a little cheaper to operate and produce more light. I saw that the fixtures are available for $8.00 at Home Depot and the bulbs are about $3.00 each.The T8 bulb has a daylight bulb that Karen wants. It will help her when she finishes my projects. I am forbidden to touch a paint brush. She doesn't like me to use a glue bottle either. Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
