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Author Topic: Any source for GE "F" square panel fluorescent lamps?  (Read 6443 times)

Offline Jonas Clark

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Any source for GE "F" square panel fluorescent lamps?
« 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?

Offline adam2

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Re: Any source for GE "F" square panel fluorescent lamps?
« Reply #1 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 !

Offline adam2

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Re: Any source for GE "F" square panel fluorescent lamps?
« Reply #2 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