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Title: Any source for GE "F" square panel fluorescent lamps?
Post by: Jonas Clark on August 16, 2011, 11:59:32 am

In the 60s, General Electric made some fluorescent lamps called type "F", which were in the form of a large, square panel; one side was a sheet of glass with a serpentine shape molded in like half a tube, while the other side had a waffle pattern, and the two were sealed together, forming a snakey fluorescent lamp which presented itself as a square panel.

Does anyone here know who has an old stock of these, if anyone?

Title: Re: Any source for GE "F" square panel fluorescent lamps?
Post by: adam2 on August 18, 2011, 06:53:36 am

I rather doubt that anyone has stocks of these.
AFAIK they were never popular, I believe that automatic production was found to be far more challenging than was expected.
Good luck !

Title: Re: Any source for GE "F" square panel fluorescent lamps?
Post by: adam2 on August 18, 2011, 06:57:28 am

Info on these lamps here, but no source of them is listed.http://www.lamptech.co.uk/Spec%20Sheets/GE%20Panel%20F.htm (http://www.lamptech.co.uk/Spec%20Sheets/GE%20Panel%20F.htm)