Old EKCO 8’ in a loft not powered for 40 years 
Found this one in my boss dads loft he had it had not been lit for 40 years this has the old black ballast in it and an original EKCO branded banded to hell deep cap tube. Purely lush.

Old EKCO 8’ in a loft not powered for 40 years

Found this one in my boss dads loft he had it had not been lit for 40 years this has the old black ballast in it and an original EKCO branded banded to hell deep cap tube. Purely lush.

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AngryHorse   [06 Mar, 2023 at 11:22 AM]
Just been in Wickes across the road from work and noticed the state of the twin 5 foot battens!, I originally thought they were HF, but the amount of glowing cathodes at the ends of the tubes tells me their SS, pretty poor state to leave them in though, theres roughly about 25 odd like this!
Kev   [06 Mar, 2023 at 12:02 PM]
It’s epic that your wicks even still have FL even if it is neglected. Surprised
Danny   [06 Mar, 2023 at 12:30 PM]
Theyll be ripped out soon
Kev   [06 Mar, 2023 at 01:05 PM]
Agree Dan probably will the LED goons will go in no doubt but we can only admire what’s not some tat from China
AngryHorse   [06 Mar, 2023 at 04:23 PM]
Our Morrisons here change all their fluorescent to LED retro fit tubes about 6 years ago, then in the evening after 6 they would turn every other 2 of in the rows, with all back on after 8 in the morning. Now they have just permanently left of every other 2 all day!, store had dark patches although you can still see pretty well!, but surely the energy cost isn’t that bad that they have to start shutting half the LED off too??
Kev   [06 Mar, 2023 at 05:58 PM]
All the Lidl stores have disabled half of their Lighting to, in the Lidl near my girlfriend‘s place they have removed the Philips LED T5 tubes Pretty pathetic like really when they have a massive great chiller units there with huge three-phase compressors in pulling God knows how many kilowatts of power!
Oliver   [06 Mar, 2023 at 10:21 PM]
Good find.

That's happened at the Lidl here too. Half of their T5 fittings have been disabled which have Philips Retrofit tubes in anyway. The last time I went, the only ones which were fluorescent were the EM ones.
Kev   [06 Mar, 2023 at 11:00 PM]
Yeh same here but a lot of them are out with dead lamps
pat_96   [07 Mar, 2023 at 10:42 PM]
Lush find Cool same Lidl have done that here too
Kev   [07 Mar, 2023 at 10:54 PM]
What did you have previously pat
pat_96   [09 Mar, 2023 at 11:06 PM]
T5 all lighting, only FL tubes now left in the EM ones. T5s were 2013 barely run in before LED tubed Rolling Eyes
Kev   [09 Mar, 2023 at 11:17 PM]
About right and lidl IIRC use all Philips tracks and fittings
pat_96   [09 Mar, 2023 at 11:30 PM]
The original hanging Philips t8 track systems disappeared from all their stores quickly enough for the current T5s ceiling mounted, shame could have just LED tubed the T8s if waited afew more years
Kev   [09 Mar, 2023 at 11:39 PM]
Yeh agree but I’m pretty sure the new T5 track systems were Philips too.

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