Fluorescent Tube Sizes

T8 bulbs are available as either linear fluorescent or led tubes.

Fluorescent tube sizes. Weee recycling containers and fluorescent lamp tube storage solutions provided by pure planet recycling. T8 tubes are often used with office lighting which can be used in both indirect and parabffolic light fixtures. The lithonia lighting 65 watt t4 triple tube compact fluorescent light bulb emits a bright 4300 lumens of light and is rated for a long service life of up to 10000 hours. Lamps are typically identified by a code such as fxxty where f is for fluorescent the first number xx indicates either the power in watts or length in inches the t indicates that the shape of the bulb is tubular and the last number y is the diameter in eighths of an inch sometimes in millimeters rounded up to the.

Fluorescent tube lights are filled with a mercury vapor gas. The most common fluorescent lamp is the hot cathode. Click collect from store. Available in straight tubes circline or u bend shapes these fluorescent lights generate light the same way.

T8 fluorescent tubes are commonly rated for 20000 life hours but range from 7500 hours to 46000 hours for standard t8 tubes. An electric current in the gas excites mercury vapor which produces short wave ultraviolet light that then causes a phosphor coating on the inside of the lamp to glow. This lamp consists of a glass tube filled with an inert gas usually argon at low pressure.