iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby Oliver » Mon Aug 17, 2020 3:57 pm

Hardly see any mercury lighting now
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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby FrontSideBus » Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:02 pm

Only about 20 years after everybody else lol
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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby Slyspark » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:02 pm

Not a huge surprise these days to be fair.
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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby Oliver » Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:25 pm

I wonder how many manufactures will still be selling fluorescent tubes in 10 years.
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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby Danny » Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:52 pm

Non i reckon.
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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby Slyspark » Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:57 pm

Sadly, other than special application fluorescent (Mainly UV) I doubt any will be.
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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby Ash » Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:24 pm

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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby Slyspark » Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:33 pm

All well and good if we can dodge the various bans - such as mercury. No good making something that would be classed as illegal. Need a way around the regs as well as the means to actually make the items in the first place...
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Re: iwasaki have pulled the plug on mercs in japan

Postby Oliver » Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:09 pm

Put a red sleeve on standard tubes and say they are for a "special application" like those Philips ex M.O.D tubes I have. Then take sleeve off for a normal tube.

In 10 years, I think eventually T8 will go then T5 will be last so we should still be able to get 8w tubes and other T5 tubes for a while yet I hope.

https://www.whitecroftlighting.com/prod ... -duralite/

They have just stopped selling them. There's a car park I know that have used them and they were installed recently.

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