Super Rare 1940's Antique Fluorescent Christmas Lights
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2023
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The new Westinghouse used to make a line of compact fluorescent globe lamps with miniature electronic ballast in base of bulb. These came in various sized globes like G40 and G25. They were waterproof, so they could be used in light strings. They came in multiple colors in addition to white. They were sold under the Westinghouse Nanolux name.
I’m going on 74 years old I have a collective Lightbulb since I was six fluorescent lightbulbs since I was 19 and I’m not stopping now I don’t know what you’re talking about and I have a lot of cool stuff merry Christmas
I think I am the only person in the world who has a fear of long fluorescent lights- I can handle the little twisty ones, but the very long tube like ones send a shiver in me. I asked my Psychiatrist about this and he said he knows no phobia on the fear of fluorescent lights, so he told me I was his first. "Fluroresaphobia" fear of long glass tubes with poisonous gases in them.....
I'm 81 years old and I vividly remember helping Mom string incandescent Christmas lights on our Christmas tree following the end of WWII, but I never heard of fluorescent Christmas lights until seeing your video. Believe me when I say I definitely would have noticed the difference between fluorescent and incandescent blubs back in the nineteen forties. I gave you a thumbs up for telling me something I never knew, but I almost took it back because of that terrible music you played in the middle of the video, although I realize that people today might actually like that awful sound. It's too bad you don't have more of a technical background, because I'd like to know more about how those lights worked. Fluorescent lights of that period need a ballast to raise voltage and limit current, and also a timed starter-heater to vaporize the mercury in the bulbs. These electrical items were too large to fit inside of each Christmas light in those days, so I wonder how Sylvania was able to solve those problems. Decades later, companies were able to eliminate the starter-heater and squeeze a ballast into the base of compact fluorescent bulbs, but I'm assuming that these old Christmas lights were much smaller than the CFLs which came much later. Was there possibly a box that sat on the floor, which may have held a ballast for the entire light string? Given the technology of the nineteen forties, the ballast would probably have weighed at least a pound and probably more.
Remember those on a grocery store in the 1960,s
Why are they called florescent and not neon?
Beautiful lights. Christmas is a very bittersweet time for me, and I long for the days when I would have jumped through hoops of fire for a set of these fluorescent lights.
The warm glow from those bulbs will never be able to be produced by LED. It's just not the same.
I have a ton of florescent Christmas lights I have purchased in estate sales over the years. I ran across some when getting some spare bulbs out for the outdoor C9 lights I put up yesterday. I set a few aside to put on the Christmas tree the I put it up in a few days. I haven't used them in years..... You have a nice collection of them.
Very cool... I love these types of things .. i never knew anything about these lights....
The outfit is everything, love it! 😂
Very cool lights! Glad to see them in operation.
Oh how cool!!
Do they blink and flicker when you first turn them on? That's what I wanted to see.
The fact that there was a connection between the set and someone's memories blows my mind. I wish I could know the history of my antique Christmas lights or vinyl records, before being bought by me, as a teenager in the 2000s
Merry Christmas
Our entire tree has about 150 fluorescents and c-6 bubbler / figural/ and other miscellaneous lamps.
Merry Christmas Larry! Interesting about the history behind these lights. I always learn something new in each of your videos 👍
Ever really knew of this type of Christmas lights. Thank you for sharing!
Interesting to me is that there's no obvious ballast. I wonder if these bulbs use a resistor current limiter in each bulb, like a small neon nightlight. I also wonder how much power they draw.