In the meantime, we have 5 years to stock up on MBF lamps as they're being banned in 2015.Looks like we'll have to raid the lucky dip bins at AMEY!!
Out of the lamps I've tested from our previous trip, one didn't work... I still have a fair few to test though.
Oh heck, that will ruin my avatar and force a bulk-replacement of Clacton's GEC Z5640s and Z5670s (a few hundred of the mercury-running variants are still going, with some approaching 60 years old!). With any luck, they'll invent a SON retrofit for the 80w mercury bulb (as far as I know, they only do them from 125w to 400w at the moment).You never know, they may get converted to CFL!!
I might need a Leak Transformer to go with it.Funnily enough I'm in the same position and will need some help with this. Phosco has kindly offered to keep an eye out for me, and in the East Anglian discussion thread, mazeteam and sotonsteve say there can still be found in old column bases or in the scrap bins of local depots.
Yes. I have two Leak Transformers for 90w SOX (the ones we'd need for the SLI's), and both came from column bases... one's a GEC that's being used in my Z9454 (now 9464 because it's geared)* and the other is an ancient revo thing that weighs 10kg or more - I found it when I wandered around former Northern Electric land at Osbaldwick and they had three old concrete columns lying on the ground, one with door still on. I opened the door and inside was an ants nest and this leak transformer. I have no idea if it works and have only got stubs of the wires in the terminals so I'll have to guess how it's wired up, but unless I get any other LT's then it's the one I'll have to use.
But to David,
YES i would like one of the SLI lamps... THANKS
* - my GEC LT looks an awful lot like the one Stelmer has pictured...