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SilverStar FL8T5 Mosquitoes blacklight lamp in the storage of Carmel hospital This brand is crap. The blacklight lamps from this brand are known to EOL very soon.

SilverStar FL8T5 Mosquitoes blacklight lamp in the storage of Carmel hospital

This brand is crap. The blacklight lamps from this brand are known to EOL very soon.

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Ash   [04 Aug, 2026 at 10:00 PM]
Those (also come branded as "Teka Sheka") are the worst of the lot by far, in T8 too. Buy any other chinese noname, itll be better
Beta 5   [06 Aug, 2026 at 10:26 AM]
I think of all the 8W bug zapper tubes about now Philips would still be the best, and despite that they are actually not that much more expensive than some of the cheapo ones, or in some cases cheaper than those!
dor123   [06 Aug, 2026 at 11:57 AM]
I've two Philips Polish 8W blacklight lamps in my bug zapper, and they lasting well, but the phosphor coating degrading.
Beta 5   [06 Aug, 2026 at 05:28 PM]
The Philips ones will probably last long enough for that to happen and the "change annually" instruction to be valid while the cheapo ones won't last long enough to get to phosphor degradation.
dor123   [06 Aug, 2026 at 06:22 PM]
The FSL ones lasts several months.
Ash   [06 Aug, 2026 at 10:11 PM]
FSL make decent lamps, and even if it does not come out great every time, they are definitely trying. The ones pictured here were never meant to work at all, they are pitiful waste of the resources that were wasted on making them
Slyspark   [06 Aug, 2026 at 11:16 PM]
I'm still buying in Philips branded 8w for bug zappers. Still easy enough to get. The thing I'm now struggling with are the S2 starters to actually make them work
dor123   [07 Aug, 2026 at 07:34 AM]
Why the UVA phosphor, degrades so fast, compared to most visible light phosphors.
Ash   [07 Aug, 2026 at 07:45 AM]
Are starters falling under any bans ? Couldnt you just buy some online ?
Slyspark   [07 Aug, 2026 at 09:20 AM]
I don't think they are banned, just wholesalers have stopped stocking them and manufacturers seem to largely have given up. A shame, given that 8w tubes are not actually banned.
Ash   [07 Aug, 2026 at 01:02 PM]
Over here we are currently getting GE 155/200 and 155/500 (China), before them we were getting the Osram ST151/111 LONGLIFE (which say LONGLIFE on the starter) (China, which became the official Osram starter after they closed everything in Germany)

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