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Timeguard Fluorescent Night Light EOL (40 nights use) I bought this from Ebay (brand new) after watching Bigclive on Youtube take one to bits. It's been on every night for only 40 nights and it's EOL already. It still lights up but appears to be rectifying and the electronics are not happy, making clicking noises and it gets worryingly hot! 2/10 would not buy again

Timeguard Fluorescent Night Light EOL (40 nights use)


I bought this from Ebay (brand new) after watching Bigclive on Youtube take one to bits. It's been on every night for only 40 nights and it's EOL already. It still lights up but appears to be rectifying and the electronics are not happy, making clicking noises and it gets worryingly hot!

2/10 would not buy again

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Album name:fluorescent / Fail
Manufacturer:Timeguard
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Date added:08 Apr, 2019
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Danny   [08 Apr, 2019 at 03:33 PM]
Wow thats shit lol
oliver   [08 Apr, 2019 at 04:54 PM]
Wow, mine has been on for 40 nights too and most days and it looks new still ?????
Danny   [08 Apr, 2019 at 05:17 PM]
Get jon to make you a new tube for it lol
fluorescent   [08 Apr, 2019 at 09:41 PM]
Don't even think it'd be worth the effort this was only £6 delivered! Maybe this one hasn't been happy with our 250-253v we have here overnight
Lightbulbfun   [08 Apr, 2019 at 09:46 PM]
I cant imagine the high crescent factor of the capacitive dropper ballast is particularly kind to the cathodes! it would be interesting to salvage the tube from one, and figure out its optimal running current, then run it on magnetic gear with heated cathode starting, and seeing how long it lasts Smile
eclipsislamps   [09 Apr, 2019 at 09:09 AM]
Thing I find interesting about these is the tubes do look handmade to me, and I could make one. The let down with these though is they use torch bulb fillaments, single coil therefore wont last long
Ash   [09 Apr, 2019 at 01:21 PM]
The Crest Factor of a capacitor connected across the power line (without tube) is sqrt(2), this is not bad. The CF gets higher as the off periods at zero crossing are longer - but with a tube that might be dropping some 20V maybe the off periods are not all that significant either..... (i dont know what the arc V of those is but i imagine 20V-ish). I wonder why they went for a hot cathode tube when they could probably do with a CCFL with low enough voltage to run on 230V and not care about the CF

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