the switch was off during the pic but i found it and flicked it on and the tubes just glowed faintly and striated a little and one PAR was flashing like nuts like something shorted and the other did nothing.
i agree with the 75W daylight lamps but make the PARs halogen or incandescent. No CFLS!!!!
They sell 75 WATT! Cool White Supreme Alto slimlines at Home Depot, could thus almost bring an old slimline lume like this back to it's pre-EPACT glory!
yeah i think Filips is steering away from the energy saving alto lamps since they're just so terrible lol. the full wattage altos aren't really that bad but i hate the green endcaps. i like the color green but they stick out too much in a fluorescent fixture. IMO they should start making black end caps again. i think even white endcaps would look nice. i heard some westie lamps had ORANGE end caps?
Time for some 75w daylight Alto slimlines (I actually like the green ends) and some 6500K spiral CFLs IMO...
i agree with the 75W daylight lamps but make the PARs halogen or incandescent. No CFLS!!!!
On the other hand why not make the endcaps match the colour of the light. So there will be /CW, /D, /WW, and /GLD end caps now.