Westinghouse F48T12/CW/SHO 110W 4ft Very high output tube

some may recall that many years ago I got 3 of these from ebay from the US (before the global shipping program ruined everything!)

but I dont think I ever uploaded them here, so I figured I should do so while I had one out :)

it is a bright (and hot running) bastard :) its a shame they never made these in triphosphor that would be truly blinding

its been many years since I last lit one, and am doing so in preparation for some other tubes arriving, to see how my constant current ballast setup is doing

these SHO/VHO tubes run at 1.5A and my setup gives me a fairly constant 1.65A so I think that should work nicely (im running 13.6Uf of capacitance in series with a 180W Sun tanning choke, its like a beefed up 125W 8ft circuit)

(it would be ideal for running a 200W SLI/H setup but I sadly dont have one of those in the collection! as they run at 1.6A)

the fluke multimeter is measuring lamp voltage