Restored & re-purposed Advanced passenger train power car lights
Here are two of the fluorescent lights from that were removed from the power car of the advanced passenger train which is now an exhibit at Crewe heritage centre. I've restored them and re-purposed them as lights for the desk I use when working from home. They have been re-painted in Silver and black to match the colour scheme for the rest of the room and are suspended using a cable kit that was bought from Amazon and advertised as being for LEDs. The ballast is in a black project box on the middle with a neon switch. The box is bigger than I wanted but the next size down would have been too small. I went for an electronic ballast as these were originally used with an electronic inverter during their previous life on the train. Apart from that am very pleased with the results, both with the way they look and the light that they produce. A nice bright light where it's needed but does not dazzle. Just wish I'd had these at the start of the winter. I've not quite finished the installation yet, they will be wired into a couple of ceiling roses which of course involves lifting floorboards in the room above which is always a pain

Restored & re-purposed Advanced passenger train power car lights

Here are two of the fluorescent lights from that were removed from the power car of the advanced passenger train which is now an exhibit at Crewe heritage centre. I've restored them and re-purposed them as lights for the desk I use when working from home. They have been re-painted in Silver and black to match the colour scheme for the rest of the room and are suspended using a cable kit that was bought from Amazon and advertised as being for LEDs. The ballast is in a black project box on the middle with a neon switch. The box is bigger than I wanted but the next size down would have been too small. I went for an electronic ballast as these were originally used with an electronic inverter during their previous life on the train. Apart from that am very pleased with the results, both with the way they look and the light that they produce. A nice bright light where it's needed but does not dazzle. Just wish I'd had these at the start of the winter. I've not quite finished the installation yet, they will be wired into a couple of ceiling roses which of course involves lifting floorboards in the room above which is always a pain

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FrontSideBus   [13 Mar, 2022 at 08:45 PM]
That looks awesome! Great use for those classic and possible unique fittings! All that is missing is an IBM Model M Smile Instead of suspending them from the ceiling, I'd have them on wall mounted outreach arms if I was doing it. Maybe even having them doing double duty into supporting a couple of shelves or something.
RobTDCI   [13 Mar, 2022 at 11:06 PM]
Thanks! Yes, there's number of ways of doing it though I'm a bit limited by where I can have the desk in the room and the window. The compact size and light weight makes them easy to work with, they are aluminium. I love the history that they have, I believe it was a very noisy place to be when the train was running.

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