Powerlite Fitzgerald 6×54W 240V T5 commercial luminaire (UK-made, 2007) — 17 units of new-old-stock surplus held ex-warehouse Leicester, UK. A large six-lamp high-output T5 fitting, supplied as the fitting only; ready for T5 LED retrofit tubes.
Held as UK stock, ex-warehouse Leicester. This SKU is one line within the JCC whole-lot commercial-lighting parcel (~8,585 units, GBP 8,500 ex-VAT for the entire lot), listed here for reference only. It is not sold separately; the parcel is supplied as a single lot, to trade.
Box-label photo evidence — UVM654/CWL/P05-34 in v1 finish.
This line is the Powerlite Fitzgerald commercial luminaire, catalogue reference UVM654/CWL/P05-34 — a large six-lamp 6 × 54W 240V high-output T5 fitting, UK-made and dated 2007. It is documented within the wider JCC surplus parcel but is a Powerlite-branded unit in its own right. This is a substantial architectural luminaire: roughly 128 cm long, 61 cm wide and about 10 kg per unit, built to deliver a high, even output over a large floor plate. The holding is a compact but valuable 17 units of unused, ex-distribution new-old-stock surplus.
Six-lamp high-output T5 fittings of this size were specified for serious commercial and industrial interiors — open-plan offices, retail floors, showrooms, warehousing, sports and leisure halls, and education — wherever a lot of clean, uniform light was needed from a robust, maintainable housing. The Fitzgerald's scale and lamp count put it firmly in that professional bracket rather than the light-commercial one, and a fitting of this build quality is designed for a long service life on the ceiling.
On compliance, the important point is that this is supplied as the fitting only — no lamps are included. Linear T5 fluorescent lamps were removed from the market under the September 2023 phase-out, but that ban applies to the lamp, not the housing: the empty luminaire is not subject to the lamp or Ecodesign restrictions and can be sold and installed freely. Crucially, the fitting is directly usable today because T5 LED retrofit tubes are widely available — a buyer fits LED T5 replacements (with the appropriate driver/ballast arrangement) and puts a six-lamp architectural luminaire straight into service as a modern, low-energy fitting. That is the whole commercial case: a heavy, well-made housing whose only obsolete component — the fluorescent tube — has a plentiful drop-in LED successor.
For the trade this is a high-value-per-unit retrofit line rather than a volume commodity. Seventeen large six-lamp housings is enough to re-light a floor plate, a hall or a run of a warehouse, and because the T5-to-LED conversion is well understood, an installer or facilities buyer can quote it with confidence. The fitting effectively lets a client sidestep the cost and disruption of a full new-luminaire install: keep the proven Fitzgerald housing, drop in LED tubes, and capture most of the energy saving of a new fit at a fraction of the price. That proposition — retrofit the housing you already trust — is exactly where surplus commercial luminaires earn their margin.
Commercially the UVM654/CWL/P05-34 is offered as UK surplus / liquidation stock for trade and resale only. It is not a retail product and is not sold as a stand-alone line: it forms part of Austral Prime's JCC commercial lighting whole-lot bulk package — roughly 8,585 units across infrastructure, fittings and architectural hardware, supplied as a single lot for GBP 8,500 (ex-VAT) ex-warehouse Leicester. The whole-lot structure lets one buyer take the entire discontinued range at clearance economics and then place the individual lines into their own maintenance, refurbishment, retrofit or export channels at trade margin.
End applications are exactly the settings these were built for and where T5-LED retrofit is now most active: offices and public buildings, retail and showroom floors, warehousing and light industrial, education and sports facilities. Because the housing is fully reusable and the LED tube market is mature, this stock sits squarely on the right side of the fluorescent-to-LED transition, and re-using robust commercial housings rather than scrapping them for new fittings is a genuinely strong sustainability and cost argument to put to a facilities client.
On comparable economics, a new six-lamp architectural luminaire of this scale is a significant capital item, and re-lighting a floor plate with new fittings carries both the hardware cost and the disruption of a full re-fit. Buying proven surplus housings at clearance and dropping in LED T5 tubes captures most of the energy saving for a fraction of that outlay, which is precisely the case a retrofit or ESCO contractor puts to a facilities client.
Typical buyers are electrical wholesalers and factors, commercial and facilities lighting contractors, retrofit and ESCO installers, pallet and job-lot liquidation traders, and export resellers serving the EU or Australian markets. UK supply is subject to VAT at the standard rate (reclaimable by VAT-registered buyers); exports removed from the UK may be zero-rated on valid evidence. The full per-SKU manifest — quantities, locations, dimensions and box-label photography — is available on enquiry. Title and risk pass on dispatch from Leicester; buyers collect or arrange their own freight. Sale is 'as is', on documentary (not third-party audited) evidence, with photographs supplied ahead of commitment.
The UVM654/CWL/P05-34 powerlite fitzgerald 6×54w t5 luminaire is supplied as part of the JCC whole-lot parcel. Register interest in the lot or request the full trade manifest and photographs.