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5 Westy 2 lamp F40T12 preheat fluorescent tube diffused halfpiper fixtures starting up

After looking for some North American preheat F40T12 fluorescent tube fixtures with glass diffusers or louvers, I finally found these that were listed by a San Francisco Bay area eBay seller who has lots of antique electric oscillating fan listings. As I took a look at the pictures of these fixtures, I got really excited because I saw pictures of some starters in one fixture and pictures of identical fixtures that had diffusers. After seeing the pictures, I thought to myself “I have to get these for my collection, they look like something I really want!!” The uniqueness of these fixtures was something that I could not resist. As a result, I bought them even though all of them listed together were extremely expensive. Even though the price I paid for them is pretty expensive for preheat fluorescent fixtures, I thought that the high cost was money well spent due to the extreme rarity of North American preheat F40T12 fluorescent tube fixtures and due to the fact that they have a much more artistic design than everyday shoplights, wraparounds, striplights, and troffers. In order to make the purchase of these rare fixtures manageable, I am paying for the cost of these fixtures in a series of much smaller increments so that I can have more money to collect other bulbs, ballasts, and fixtures in a single month. I also do not regret obtaining these fixtures because the seller’s description for these fixtures said “These are a perfect candidate to be upgraded to LEDs. It only requires minimal rewiring and of course cuts the weight in half if not less than that.” That part of the description also motivated me to buy them because I wanted to save them from other buyers converting these to LED by bypassing the ballasts since doing so often leads to rare preheat fluorescent tube ballasts being scrapped. Before wiring power cords to these fixtures, I replaced any wiring that had damaged insulation with new wiring and I also replaced any broken lampholders with matching lampholders that were intact. In addition, I also noticed that these fixtures had massive ballasts that were about the same length as a long john ballast, but were wired up and function like brick ballasts due to the fact that they use internal starting compensators. Fortunately, all the ballasts seem to drive their proper tubes at full power despite being about 80 years old. Some other interesting things that I got from these fixtures include a pair of Dura FS40 manual reset starters, several other Dura FS4 starters, and 3 silver capped Westinghouse F40CW “preheat-rapid start” fluorescent tubes that are sadly spent due to possibly running on stuck starters since 2 of the starters that came with these fixtures were stuck. To make these fixtures more blink happy, I installed some modern plastic case Leviton FS4 starters since the older starters seem to be less blink happy than more modern starters. In one of the fixtures, I have also noticed a wiring connection that used electrical tape to insulate the connection instead of wire nuts. Shortly after purchasing them, I noticed that one LG member had sighted an installation of identical fixtures in use at UC Berkeley and was not sure if they were preheat or converted to rapid start nearly 15 years ago. Here is a picture of the identical fixture in use at UC Berkeley: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gall...