Re: Fluorescent ballasts anyone?

Don Klipstein <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <e8gpvd$1os$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sergey Kubushin wrote:
Don Klipstein <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <e8f6ou$9vr$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sergey Kubushin wrote:

[dd]

Best I can find is two Philips products...

G36T6H and G36T6VH.

The G36T6H is a nominally 39 watt lamp with nominal length 36 inches and
supposedly a germicidal lamp with "high" ozone production. Philips
product number is 046677-28888-6.

The G36T6VH is a nominally 39 watt lamp with nominal length 37 inches
(including lampholders for this one) and supposedly a germicidal lamp with
"very high" ozone production. Philips product number is 046677-28887-3.

Yeah, they're fine and I do also have two of those but unfortunately my,
sorry for an expression, "ozone generator" is 33-1/2" long so they don't fit
in it. The original bulb was called UWQ-825T5/40W and it's 30" long.

Maybe ask bulbs.com if they can get you any. Both are supposedly
"slimline" single pin models, presumably "instant start", and I recommend
getting an engineer at Philips to recommend a ballast for you.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I don't believe in exclusive
ballasts for $150 each and Philips engineers to buy a mere ballast. This is
NOT rocket science, it's just a low pressure bulb that's only difference
from a regular fluorescent bulb is lack of luminophore. I don't want
Philips, Sylvania, GE etc. bulbs and matching ballasts because one never
knows when they start caring of our health and discontinue those bulbs or
replace them with something "even better". A want _a_ bulb and _a_ ballast
that I can buy in _a_ department store.

I don't see germicidal lamps in department stores or home centers, and
rarely in any hardware stores. Also, the ones more interchangeable with
ordinary fluorescent lamps appear to me tend to be made with a kind of
glass that passes the 254 nm main germicidal line but blocks the 185 nm
ozone-forming line.

Yep, _all_ those interchangeable with regular fluorescents are of
"non-ozone" variety.

I *would* check to see if either of the lamps that I mentioned above are
current product of 2 or better still all 3 of the "Big 3". That would
indicate it being a more "industry-standard" lamp with availability
likely well into the future, although still being a specialty one.

They are. But, unfortunately, they are longer than I need :((

However I'm seriously considering building my own ozonator with those lamps.
They seem to be available and they are relatively cheap.

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