Talk:Fluorescent lamp

message: Some of the older discussions have been moved to Talk:Fluorescent lamp/Archive 1
--Wtshymanski (talk) 23:14, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: More moved from 2011 through early 2017. --Wtshymanski (talk) 02:03, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Archived discussions

message: The article mentions the mercury emitted by improper disposal. Should we mention the mercury emitted due to the extra power needed, and mercury in coal for coal power plants?  Gah4 (talk) 00:29, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  mercury 

message: The article seems to say that instant start single pin lamps are rare since the 1970's. As we have these in our kitchen (installed by the previous owner) and I still buy bulbs for them, I don't think they are so rare. As well as I know, it is only the 8 foot T12 lamps like this one. Common 4 foot lamps are rapid start. There are also some instant start bipin lamps with the two pins shorted together. That might be the HO version. Gah4 (talk) 07:13, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  instant start 

message: This is very important: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230988669_Mercury_dosing_solutions_for_fluorescent_lamps
I had this pellet in my UV-C lamp and was very confused and tought it would be a manufacutring error.
It was very very difficult to find anything about these little pellets.
I would be glad, if someone with knowlege in this field would add a section either here or in the UV-C lamp page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germicidal_lamp 2A03:7AE0:0:2001:0:0:1:E6 (talk) 08:23, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's actually common, even with the oldest dosing technique of simply adding a liquid drop before vacuuming. In some of the old 8' lamps the drop was large enough to give a good thud when tipped from end to end, but only when new. The first time it's used the mercury vaporizes and doesn't coalesce back into a drop when you turn it off. I'm not familiar with these other techniques. However, an encyclopedia is not a how-to manual, and you'll notice we don't have very much at all about how they're made. It wouldn't hurt to expand the construction section a little, and maybe summarizing this into a sentence or two, but I couldn't see adding an entire section about it. Zaereth (talk) 22:17, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mercury dosing solutions used in Fluorescent Lamps  

message: The physical discoveries section mixes fluorescence discoveries and electrical gas discharge discoveries.
E.g. The current order of sentences implies that Sir George Stokes named the glow from discharge tubes as fluorescence, whereas it was the property of fluorescing materials he named.
As fluorescence and gas discharge are separate topics with separate discoveries brought together eventually in the fluorescent tubes, I suggest that they should be kept separate in the history section, only bringing together at the correct point the the historical development.
I will look at editing this.
Lkingscott (talk) 08:04, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Added sub sections to Physical Discoveries section to make the separate discoveries clearer and unambiguous. Lkingscott (talk) 08:13, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physical discoveries section confusing

message: I am not discussing the use of LEDs to replace fluorescent tubes here.
Modern LEDs used for lighting are most often types of fluorescent lamps. Instead of using a discharge tube to create ultraviolet light, they most commonly use LEDs producing blue light with a yellow fluorescent coating and the combination of blue and yellow light produces white light. Ultraviolet LEDs with white emitting fluorescent coating are also possible but I am not aware of them commercially.
As LED lighting is likely to completely replace fluorescent tube lighting in time, this article will become one of historic interest. As LED lighting can be produced by multiple LEDs with different colours or a single LED coated with fluorescent material, the name 'fluorescent lamp' can also refer to LEDs which are coated in fluorescent materials to produce the required light colour, although it is not a common use of the term currently.
I would therefore suggest that this article be renamed 'fluorescent tube' or a section on modern LED fluorescent lamp devices should be included, obviously linking to the main article about LED lighting.
Lkingscott (talk) 08:04, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fluorescent LED lighting devices

message: The article states "Compact fluorescent lamps are now available" in the first section of the article. When reading that for the first time, it made me immediately think that this article is aged and that the statement in quotes was written many years ago.
I am advocating that the verbiage "now" is removed, due to compact fluorescent lamps being nearly obsolete today. Would like to hear others' thoughts. bunkfoss (talk) 22:00, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compact Fluorescent lamps today