Re: [APD] anyone running T5's?

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

T8s were designed to be used in office lighting -- to fill
the need for energy conservation and less mercury. That
huge commerical market is largely responsible for T8s
becoming so inexpensive. 

T5HOs, might make it into offices, but they aren't meant as
T8 replacements are they?


sh
--- "Richard J. Sexton" <richard at aquaria_net> wrote:

> >Basically, T5HOs are not new technology, just another
> new
> 
> The printer at my hig school in 1970 used a T5 tube.
> 
> >Once production is suitably ramped up and they become
> more
> >widely used, the prices should drop down to he levels of
> >other bulbs that have the same electrical and lighting
> >properties.
> 
> Figure 10 years though. That's about how long it took
> T8's
> to show up in retail places cheap.
> 
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