What a magnificent beast! Looks awesome lighting the garage! I don't suppose you know what the fluorescent lanterns were in 'Ramsay Street' do you Al? They looked like single 4' 36/40w jobs!

Bleddy awesomeness Al cheers that's made my evening seeing that after fitting Led lanterns all day

Shame on you Davy!!!! Keep the son going! This thing is a beast al did you have fun fitting it lol. 4x65W must of weighed a ton!

Load these up with 84s or 83s and you've got the perfect city centre street lantern!

Thanks guys . Tom, yeah that streetlight on Ramsay St would've been the GEC SL5034 Nepean 1x36w, coincidentally it also ended production in 1984 along with the Kuwellle range. Catalogue page here . It would be super bright with 840's which I haven't tried in this yet. Versalift, glad to make your day! Kev, yeah this is heavy, I don't have the 65w version yet although there's a couple at an airport near me I'm keeping an eye on.

So lucky to own a fluorescent street lantern! I do miss the fluorescent street lights, gone 28 years now where I live. They were 2x40w 2ft Quick start, though many had sadly become unreliable due to poor lamp earth contacts towards the end.

Rob, we still have loads of the 2x20w 2ft switch start versions here although they are getting replaced with junky CFL types with HF ballasts. FSB and Dan each have one I sent over to them. I have several dating back as far as 1968 that have only just been retired after 45 years of faithful service with the original ballasts, still work perfectly after nearly 200,000 hours of service.

Remote ballasts would've helped the weight issue big time! Wouldn't be any more complex than remote mercury chokes with the just lamps and starters in the lantern.

The ballasts in this aren't huge, the diecast aluminium canopy contributes a fair bit to the weight. See here for an internal pic of the three-lamper. This one is the same but with four ballasts.

Great beast!

12200 lumens worth of awsomness!