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Thrift Store/ReStore find!
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Went there today, and looked around the electrical stuff. They had lots of goodies, no ballasts though. Sadly.
But I did spot TWO parabolic troffer fixtures on sale for TWENTY dollars! Wow that's cheap! These fixtures are usually 200 dollars that I know of. o.o
But I scored big time! I have always wanted these kind of fixtures ever since I saw them in different places. And now I gladly own one!
Are these types of fixtures used usually at higher-end work offices? Or more higher-end stores, Like target uses a parabolic troffer fixture, or used to.
What exactly is the grid-thingy on this thing supposed to do? IS it more for decoration or for to direct the light?
I have heard that these fixtures make a kind of... different light than normal troffers.
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But anyway, there were two of them. The one under had two ballast encasings though, this one only had one.
I wonder, why did they use this grid pattern and expose the lamps and most of the insides? I never got that.
Also, I wonder why ABOVE the grid thing they didn't cover at least the lamps with a translucent thing.
What do you think of how these fixtures look inside a building?
They look good espeecially with 3,500K lamps
At my high school, they had lots of these fixtures. But the janitors there weren't exactly good on keeping the color temperature right, so there were fixtures with three different color temperature lamps, some with two of the same and one different. They had all kinds of different color temperatures there.
Each room had one fixture that when the light string was turned off, (6 fixtures usually) the middle lamp stayed on and didn't turn off with the rest of the lights.
I wonder how they wired it that way.
Anyway.. I wonder if they made these same fixtures with a translucent cover instead of the grid thing, like on a regular troffer but it was this exact kind of fixture...
The crew at my old school likes to mix colour temps too, as for the troffers in your school they must have ordered three lamp dual circuit ones which has two ballasts, one for the outer and one for the inner. They wired them to different switches so that they could keep the middle lamp on.
Is there any of these parabolic troffers with more than three lamps in them?