Guess what light this is...

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These act as a great space heater and portable/personal sun:

[Mike]

highbay lights without the reflector mounted upside-down!

My bedroom street light display works well as a heater too when I use a 175W MV fixture. 100W MV generates a little heat but only raises the room temperature about half a degree over 2-3 hours compared to 175W, which can raise the temperature as much as one degree per hour and really iss too much light for my room, though I use it anyway lol. I may install my OV-10IB outside sometime but I don't want to expose it to the environment after cleaning it up lol. It took a lot of time and effort to totally scrub the thing clean lol. The M-250R that's out there now just got a wash and a light scrub with a steel wool pad (and a ballast change). I'd install my OVC but it's not bright enough out there. The M-250A2 FCO I'll be getting is the same wattage and lamp type as my OVC (50W HPS) but I'll probably still mount it outside at some point just to have it mounted outside. I've always wanted one of those really cool boxy M-250A2 FCOs.

This style incandescent lamp coating is my favorite.

[GEsoftwhite100watts]

Inside-frost rough-service lamps? I like the "halo" effect but I'm more of the type that leans toward putting a 6500K CFL in it's place.
These have the lamps spaced widely and are one of my favorite fixture types:

[Mike]

Yep!

Turrets?

These lamps are in use in the Lithonia 2X4 parabolic troffers in the votech building hallways at my school.

[GEsoftwhite100watts]

Close...vintage shoplights with large reflectors and metal thicker than that of a soda can!
I like turrets too though, I'd like to find one!
GE Ecolux F32T8/SP35s?
The longest/highest wattage fluorescent light is this: (Be as specific as you can about the fixture, ballast, lamp brand/color temp/wattage, and of course the vintage-ness of those 3 componets. 

[Mike]

close, SPX35s.

No idea, but isn't it a sign light lamp that's actually two tubes spliced together?

[GEsoftwhite100watts]

Wrong! (That would be cool though!).  It's an (I think 80s?) Lithonia 2XF96T12 slimline striplight with a full power (1.45a line current) Advance ballast that's post-PCB and has the "Big A" label design, running a pair of 1996 Sylvania cool white 60w SuperSaver lamps. 
This is the SHORTEST and lowest linear fluorescent in use in my house (NOT a CFL or circline adapter or PL lamp)

[Mike]

Mini T5s? or an F15T8?

I plan to buy a case of these F32T8s next time my construction class goes to Lowe's (since no way in hell am I bringing a case to school on the bus lol)

[GEsoftwhite100watts]

A couple preheat-operated F15T8s.
Oh wow you guys all go to Lowes? So sweet of you to buy lamps for them!
What brand of ballast did the first vintage shoplight I found have? (And still have?)

[Mike]

Yeah, probably a little too generous lol. But afterall, lighting isn't a hobby, it's a passion... Yeah we have a small public transit bus that we have that we use to go to Lowe's when we need shop supplies. We usually go there one every couple months or so.

Bonusline!

[GEsoftwhite100watts]

Yup! It's lit as I type.
The oldest F40 lamp I currently have is this: (Month/year/brand/F40what?)

[Mike]

How do you expect me to know that? I can't even guess the brand lol (I'll guess GE though? Or norelco?)

This is the lamp I'll use to relamp the F40/RS safety fixture in the second shop we use:

[GEsoftwhite100watts]

A May 1977 GE F40CW Mainlighter!
A Sylvania F40CWX, or maybe a GE C41.  Or that other 34w Philips you have.

[Mike]

Yeah Sylvania CWX. The GE C41s are the same lumen and CRI ratings as CWX but the color the lamp is more CWP-ish than CWX-ish (no purple tint) so I actually prefer the GEs, though i like the SPX41s better. I didn't realize there was a difference at the time since both types are labeled "utility cool white" (or whatever GE calls them) and look identical except C41s are a few bucks cheaper (and turns out around a thousand lumens dimmer too).

[GEsoftwhite100watts]

Yeah they're basically CWX.  I've seen the 34w Watt-Miser version, though those seem to have been replaced by the CX41 now which I think is brighter.  Not sure though since all the lamps I'm around on a daily basis are actually pre-2012 CWs and SP41s, and any newer ones are plain CWX or /950s.