Need more links and information regard to T-5 Light?

[mr. angelfish]

Someone mentioned T-5 and this DO sounds very exciting especially for those who want to conserve the cost and more efficiently.
Anyway I need more information about that T-5 and where can I buy it sometime in 2003 if I can not wait for "few years" being available in this country.
Thanks

 

[glazer]

http://www.gelighting.com/eu/specoem/np_t5.html
http://www.lighting.philips.com/nam...fluor.php?id=49
http://www.lighting.philips.com/nam...fluor.php?id=54
http://www.narva-bel.de/
I did a bunch of searching for the T5 lighting... I thought they would be perfect for nano's but cannot find any tubes shorter than the four footers... Right now the only "daylight" bulbs available here in the US are 6500K bulbs made by GE and Phillips.
The actinic bulbs are made by a European company called Narva and after HOURS of searching I came up blank with a distributor for them here in the states. I do know that the Workhorse line of ballasts made by Fulham will fire the bulbs.... I have a Workhorse 5 just itchin' to fire them up!...hehe
I'm gonna keep an eye on this thread as well as I WANT these bulbs... specifically the actinics.

 

[krusk]

Phillips does make T5 lamps but do not make 6500K model.
GE is the only manufacture(as we speak) that makes 6500K model in the US.
WorkHorse is the perfect eballast to fire these T5 lamps
22.5" (24W) and 34.5" (39W) are availible in US.
Actinic T5 is coming to US soon.
We have tested the 46.5" lamps from these guys
www.happyreefing.com