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which fluorescent bulb to replace with?
A 48" fluourescent kitchen light bulb died.
Has a Sylvania "Super Saver F40ww/ss" bulb, also labeled "Rapid Start 34W" with another hard-to-read vertical label with E, 0 and 4. a little over 15 yrs. old. I would like to replace it with a "Daylight" spectrum bulb. Local Ace Hardware has this but it says "40 W" and I wonder if mine is actually 34W ? Box: GE Ecolux F40T12 ( I know that T12 means 1" diam. - which matches) label on glass: F40C50-ECO Chroma 50 40W USA I see no other writing on outside of the existing bulb or the lamp fixture. If I open it up and read the ballast label - what is meaningful on that? The fixutre is by "Lampi." |
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which fluorescent bulb to replace with?
T12 is 12-eighths of an inch. Your fixture uses 34 watt lamps which used to
be 40 watt, as opposed to T8-32 watt lamps wrote in message oups.com... A 48" fluourescent kitchen light bulb died. Has a Sylvania "Super Saver F40ww/ss" bulb, also labeled "Rapid Start 34W" with another hard-to-read vertical label with E, 0 and 4. a little over 15 yrs. old. I would like to replace it with a "Daylight" spectrum bulb. Local Ace Hardware has this but it says "40 W" and I wonder if mine is actually 34W ? Box: GE Ecolux F40T12 ( I know that T12 means 1" diam. - which matches) label on glass: F40C50-ECO Chroma 50 40W USA I see no other writing on outside of the existing bulb or the lamp fixture. If I open it up and read the ballast label - what is meaningful on that? The fixutre is by "Lampi." |
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which fluorescent bulb to replace with?
Right.
The ballast (robertson RN1490P) - says "for (1) F30T12 30W, (1) F40T12 40W, (1) F40T12 34W, (1) FC12T9 32W" So - I think it *looks like* I can put in this GE Chroma 50 40w bulb . . . RBM (remove this) wrote: T12 is 12-eighths of an inch. Your fixture uses 34 watt lamps which used to be 40 watt, as opposed to T8-32 watt lamps |
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