I found YET ANOTHER Dazor draftsman's lamp at Value Village for $10... has some minor cosmetic issues but presents well, needed literally nothing other than a quick cleaning and a coat of nu-finish which I did today and a pair of stainless wing nuts as this is a clamp on base model and the wing nuts were missing and I didn't want to pay shipping to order the "right" ones from Dazor.
That said, it has some GE F15T8CW tubes in it which as best I can find are discontinued but have a CRI in the 60-62 range.
The question is, does it really matter? I'm probably going to put this on one of my little electronics workbenches in my spare room. Would it be silly to spend $30 to get some newer Philips tubes which IIRC are in the mid-high 80s? Or will I never notice the difference in this application?
I do have three other Dazor lamps, two desktop and one clamp on. I deliberately sought one out years (something like 15) ago and paid well more than $10 for it, the other three have all been found at thrift stores in various states of disrepair in the last 2-3 years for some reason. I can't seem to pass these guys by though because they're so practical and I love the styling, but finding high CRI tubes is becoming harder. At least the last one I picked up came with some legit good tubes in it unlike this one.
That said, it has some GE F15T8CW tubes in it which as best I can find are discontinued but have a CRI in the 60-62 range.
The question is, does it really matter? I'm probably going to put this on one of my little electronics workbenches in my spare room. Would it be silly to spend $30 to get some newer Philips tubes which IIRC are in the mid-high 80s? Or will I never notice the difference in this application?
I do have three other Dazor lamps, two desktop and one clamp on. I deliberately sought one out years (something like 15) ago and paid well more than $10 for it, the other three have all been found at thrift stores in various states of disrepair in the last 2-3 years for some reason. I can't seem to pass these guys by though because they're so practical and I love the styling, but finding high CRI tubes is becoming harder. At least the last one I picked up came with some legit good tubes in it unlike this one.