Interesting lamp! I'm guessing this is perhaps less efficient than a regular CFL but with the benefit of no mercury.

It is certainly not as efficient as CFL. I think the arrival of [cough] LED put pay to this product!

Electron Stimulated Luminescence lamp?????, can`t say I have ever heard of one of them?, is it some form of induction set up?
:edit:, or maybe I`ll just read the comment box before I ask stupid questions!!!!

The efficacy is far lower than claimed. The box states 500 lumens but I measured only a pathetic 300lm, which puts its efficacy below incandescent. Incredible that someone decided to invest in setting up a factory to build these and then market them. Naturally it was a commercial failure and they quickly disappeared.

We need video of that turning on and off I reckon! Wonder if the glassware was surplus from another product...and what sort of CRT it is...is it just a flood beam type, or is there any focusing hardware in there (albeit unused in this application)?

I'm sure we can come up with a video for you....!

I missed an opportunity to buy one of these a few years back, not sure why I didn't jump on it but there you go. Odd technology.
What I'd be curious to know is does it make that high pitched hissing sound that CRT TVs did back in the day. My hearing was more sensitive then, and I could tell from right at the other end of the house when a TV went on; I'd maybe not hear it so much now.

Don't imagine it would feature the same whistle/hiss. That's primarily a feature of CRT televisions due to the frequency that the line output stage runs at, which is dictated by the video standard being displayed. With no such requirement here there's no reason for them to pick any particular drive frequency.

It does give static pokes! Ask Tom! ROFL ROFL ROFL

Yes I did get a static zap off it, a bit more of that you'd get from touching the front of the telly back in the day too. I feel inclined to call this the Evil Edna lamp! Still a very interesting lamp nonetheless.

Worst static thing I ever had was a monitor that had one of those mesh anti-glare screens on it. It was missing the ground connection and as a result just after as a really effective capacitor until some idiot touched it. It could give properly nasty belts that could, the snap could be heard from across the house, never mind the yelp! Do have to wonder what EHT voltage they're driving this at to get such a high brightness...the old projection CRT tubes used to run at North of 30kV in many cases...with the associated potential X-ray hazards.

I got a 36kV poke once from a CRT once! Supposedly a practical joke!