Gallery of Lights


Home Login
Album list Last uploads Last comments Most viewed Top rated My Favorites Search
Home > User galleries > joe_347V > Commerical Lighting
HO Troffer Opened Up
Odd mid 70s four lamp HO troffer at a local subway station. It's a 2X2 troffer with a rounded diffuser that normally covers the light. The lamps inside are Sylvania F24T12/CW/HO.

Note the shock hazard label on the dead lamp, the subway system uses those labels to mark failed fixtures and lamps. 
Keywords: Indoor_Fixtures

HO Troffer Opened Up

Odd mid 70s four lamp HO troffer at a local subway station. It's a 2X2 troffer with a rounded diffuser that normally covers the light. The lamps inside are Sylvania F24T12/CW/HO.

Note the shock hazard label on the dead lamp, the subway system uses those labels to mark failed fixtures and lamps.

TOR_IMG_1389.JPG TOR_IMG_1320.JPG TOR_IMG_1319.JPG IMG_0456_Fluoro.JPG PC234385.JPG
File information
Filename:TOR_IMG_1319.JPG
Album name:joe_347V / Commerical Lighting
Keywords:Indoor_Fixtures
Wattage:4 X 35w
Lamp Type:HO fluorescent
Filesize:126 KiB
Date added:Sep 12, 2012
Dimensions:1600 x 1200 pixels
Displayed:122 times
Color Space:sRGB
DateTime Original:2012:09:03 19:06:28
Exposure Mode:0
Exposure Program:Program
Exposure Time:1/60 sec
FNumber:f/2.4
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:4.28 mm
ISO:64
Make:Apple
Model:iPhone 4S
URL:http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=13046
Favorites:Add to Favorites

Comment 1 to 8 of 8
Page: 1

streetlight98   [Sep 12, 2012 at 01:21 AM]
IMO, if they're going to go grab the ladder to mark dead lamps, they should just change the lamp. Laughing
A_lights   [Sep 12, 2012 at 02:40 AM]
wow never seen these used anywhere other then in signs and refrigeration units
streetlight98   [Sep 12, 2012 at 03:03 AM]
My old middle school used to have bigger versions of this. I never really thought of them as troffers though becuase they didn't lay in the grid at my school. I never saw the inside, but they were T8 programmed start.
joe_347V   [Sep 12, 2012 at 03:29 AM]
Yeah not sure why they do that sticker business, I've seen them on fixtures with dead ballasts too. I was a bit surprised to see HO lamps inside these too, I guess this was used to get more light per lume before PL 55 troffers were popular.

I've seen bigger circle fixtures too but I don't think they were HO.
streetlight98   [Sep 12, 2012 at 03:39 AM]
Ay my old middle school, when the wrap lights had bad ballasts (and boy did it happen frequently in my computer tech room) they'd stick a red card of paper labeled BALLAST inside the diffuser, since when they change ballasts, they need to call in the school district electrician since each school doesn't have it's own apparently.
A_lights   [Sep 12, 2012 at 06:28 AM]
yeah none of my schools except high school had an electrician on staff...usually he was replacing ballast and emergency battery packs and bulbs
joe_347V   [Sep 13, 2012 at 05:04 AM]
Yeah, I don't think my old high school had a electrician on staff too. I did catch the district electrician replacing a dead ballast before though.
streetlight98   [Apr 04, 2013 at 11:47 PM]
Kind of a late reply, but i've seen the district electrician before in 7th grade. he was replacing a duplex receptacle while my english class was in the auditorium doing a play (no audience, we just did a portion of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird in groups with our class). We were in the way apparently and boy was he a jerk. Confused

Comment 1 to 8 of 8
Page: 1