Mar 13, 2019 at 02:44 AM Author: Silverliner
Is this a demonstration tube? Showing the innards and how it works. No cathode guards in the Soviet T8s?

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Mar 13, 2019 at 02:48 AM Author: vytautas_lamps
Quote from silverliner on Mar 13, 2019 at 01:44 AM Is this a demonstration tube? Showing the innards and how it works. No cathode guards in the Soviet T8s? No, soviet tubes never had cathode guards. And this is not a demonstraction tube, it is just a tube with a defect during manufacturing.

New lighting technologies is a pity fest everywhere you look. From LEDs that last only for two months, to a never-ending global starvation of t8 fluorescent tubes.
We shall reinforce ourselves with good old full mercury t12s and HIDs made to surpass one's life, and give them all the middle finger ;

Mar 13, 2019 at 02:51 AM Author: Silverliner
Do Soviet T8 tubes blacken badly at the ends?

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Mar 13, 2019 at 05:29 AM Author: vytautas_lamps
Quote from silverliner on Mar 13, 2019 at 01:51 AM Do Soviet T8 tubes blacken badly at the ends? Yes, the blackening is really bad in soviet tubes. Because they used cheap unrefined metal wire for filament support, and because phosphor was very bad and full of imputities the sputtering was really siginicant. Dead soviet tubes tend to very, very badly blacken.

New lighting technologies is a pity fest everywhere you look. From LEDs that last only for two months, to a never-ending global starvation of t8 fluorescent tubes.
We shall reinforce ourselves with good old full mercury t12s and HIDs made to surpass one's life, and give them all the middle finger ;