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Various fluorescent bulkheads After spending a day and age wiring these, i finally was able to put power to them. A few blinks and they all lit up as expected. From left to right we have 4 Coughtrie SFB16's, followed by their larger brother, the SFB32. Next up we have a Philips MFB16, which is now technically a MFB24 since it was converted from 2 tubes to 3 tubes. Finally we have a Siemens Valiant, which was originally designed by GEC. All tubes are 4000k, and all are Preaheat/SS, but the diffusers made the tubes look different to each other, especially notable on the SFB16's. In total, 17 tubes are used across these 7 bulkheads

Various fluorescent bulkheads

After spending a day and age wiring these, i finally was able to put power to them. A few blinks and they all lit up as expected. From left to right we have 4 Coughtrie SFB16's, followed by their larger brother, the SFB32. Next up we have a Philips MFB16, which is now technically a MFB24 since it was converted from 2 tubes to 3 tubes. Finally we have a Siemens Valiant, which was originally designed by GEC. All tubes are 4000k, and all are Preaheat/SS, but the diffusers made the tubes look different to each other, especially notable on the SFB16's. In total, 17 tubes are used across these 7 bulkheads

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Danny   [20 Oct, 2015 at 10:43 PM]
Interesting lamp holder spacing there on the far right one. Have you got any inside pics of it
Dave   [20 Oct, 2015 at 10:54 PM]
I'll grab it out tomorrow and grab a pic for you. The gear tray is a V shape, hence the lamp holders being like that inside. The design was made like this originally to fit the huge 8w ballasts from the days of GEC.
Arrowslim   [20 Oct, 2015 at 10:55 PM]
i have the GEC, i will dig it out tomorrw and post pictures of the monolithic open coil ballasts
Dave   [20 Oct, 2015 at 10:56 PM]
I'll also post pics of the inside of the Siemens variant to compare and show just how much space is wasted in it.

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