Regent 70watt Cycling HPS Light Bulb
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Regent 70watt Cycling HPS Light Bulb
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I put a cycling 50w GE bulb on a 320w PSMH ballast and it ran white for one minute and it blew up LOL. Nice video! :)
You know what... I've been wondering what happens when you blow up a HPS. Was it violent?
I've ran both good and bad 50W HPS lamps on an S55 150W ballast and they just cycle.
@@thelightninghunter23 I'm not sure what your definition of violent is, but it went out with a pretty good bang with a good sized hole on the side of the lamp, almost the entire lamp was cracked, and all of the arc tube was gone except for the ends. Afterwards there was something smoldering on the the carpet (yes, a bad idea to do it inside the house, especially on carpet), probably a piece of the arc tube.
@@lightinglover40 Hm, so it was uncontained. Interesting... I didn't think an HPS could crack the outer bulb. In fact I JUST came across a video where someone destroyed a 70W on a 1000W ballast and, outside of melting and arcing, there was nothing too violent.
@@thelightninghunter23 The lamp I used happened to be a medium based one, which has the smaller envelope. If I had a cycling mogul base one with a larger envelope, I would run it on the same ballast to see what it does. Maybe the results would be different if I had done the experiment with a lamp that has a larger envelope.
Good video, nice handheld HPS ballast fitting you have there.
Interesting that it has an "LU70" designation. From what I can gather that's a GE specific designation for their Lucolux line of HPS lamps, so maybe it was made in a GE factory and rebranded "Regent"?. I have a GE Lucolux LU150 and an LU70 XtraLife with dual arc tubes. I'll have to do some videos on them as well as showing off my new 250w MBF-R i bought when that arrives.
As the sodium light bulb restrikes up it starts with a beautiful light blue colour just what a metal halide bulbs when it warms up!!
I thought the cause are worn electrodes. As they wear they gradually draw more current until the ballast can’t keep up hence the cut out.
I like those 70 watt sodium bulbs. 👍👍👍
HPS streetlights where common since the 90s. Like in 1997. Back in the 80s it was mercury vapor.
Yes they’re where mercury vapor lights made up to the 2000s.
Many companies discontinued mercury vapor lights in the 90s and A LOT OF HPS LIGHTS where popping up that was back when HPS was basically a new thing common in street lighting. NOT SO NEW ANYMORE.
In 92 HPS was still a thing but they LITERALLY discontinued mercury vapor street lights and made them HPS in the late 90s in the early 2000s especially.
American Electric made them until basically the ban hit.
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It gives a light of mercury vapour lamp
i want that bulb tester. been looking for something like that for years
HI, parrot175. could you try running that bulb on a 150W metal halide ballast? it will not cycle on 150W MH gear because the available voltage of HPS ballasts is too low, while metal halide ballasts have high enough voltage, which is why it cycles on a HPS ballast. It will work without cycling on a 150W MH ballast because 70W S62 HPS current is 1.37A and 150W MH current is 1.44A. please trust me on this.
can you run this "Ceramic Mercury Vapour" with 35w ballast so you don't overheat the arc tube?
I've seen atleast 3 different types of HPS fixtures that cycle exactly like the way in the video. An AE 113, a Cooper OVX, and some other fixture I don't exactly know the name of but I'll find out soon. I've seen them all cycle and come back on, but it does take a really long time, like 5 minutes if you continuously stare at it. Other fixtures cycle and come back on quickly, but if they cycle like this where all the sodium has gone it will take a long time to restrike.
Please make a video of your Regent cycling 70watt high pressure sodium and Phillips alto 100watt cycling high pressure sodium bulbs cycling together
Considering how efficient HPS bulbs are compared to Incandescent, how come they weren't used for household lighting?
People were whining that a CFL takes a second to strike and that it needs a minute to reach full brightness. Imagine the complaints a sodium bulb would cause. Also they're yellow and not dimmable.
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Its a HPS light not a fluorescent bulb
Where do you get a fixture like that?
Okay I got two of these balls and they're not working does it require a certain kind fixture
Looks like a Murcury Vapor
Yes it does! That is actually the mercury vapor lighting up since the sodium has left the tube.
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OMG I found a two GE M400R2 400w Philips hps on the ground one of them had a broken chip glass, during construction on the freeway in Oregon I 5, I even recorded opening it. Should I take it home or ask the construction worker? I got all the tools. I saw on you tube a guy asked a contractor and hes said yes if I put it on the curb so I don't get in trouble, so guess I can take it?
Yes if you want to take this ask workers.
I'm afraid the workers will say no because they want them back and send them to scrap to get money from them. Also they are GE m400R2 with GE globe lens.
Wonder why they never tried putting mercury in a Low Pressure Sodium bulb??
Because it's not necessary for the lamp to function and would have little to no effect on the efficacy. It's likely been tried very early on while research on low pressure sodium technology was still being carried out.
The only things a low pressure sodium (aka SOX, SO/H, SOI/H or SLI/H) lamp requires is a pair of coated electrodes, a neon argon penning mixture, sodium and a method of retaining heat to vaporise the sodium. Oh, and not to mention a current limited power supply with HV ignition ;)
I'm gonna assume that even if the mercury vapor doesn't throw off the arc impedance in a SOX lamp completely, the UV-C light that it would produce would be useless. Remember that at low pressure, most discharges are monochromatic.
At my restore i found something called a ceramalux non-cycling hps bulb. Have you seen anything like that before cause i haven't.
Yes they do make non-cycling HPS bulbs, I think they have a different mixture of vapors inside to prevent cycling from happening.
@@Parrot175 That they do. Although it doesn't entirely stop a lamp from cycling if it leaks... once a lamp leaks and the internal pressure drops, the chances that it'll cycle increase greatly.
Where I can buy them ? E27 ?
Does that high pressure sodium light bulb still work?
No as the sodium has left the arc tube. All it will do is make the mercury glow and then go out over and over again.
So basically it's a mercury vapor now lol?
yes, lol
actually, it does still work, but just needs a 150W metal halide ballast.
I've seen a couple of those high pressure sodium son bulbs go as blue as mercury vapor when they start warm up before they change into orange!
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What fixture is this? Or what do I need to do to use a e26 hps bulb??
Every high pressure sodium bulb has an ANSI code. For example, 70 watt HPS bulbs have an ANSI code of S62. A ballast is what powers the bulb, to find the correct one for your bulb simply match up that ANSI code with the code on the ballast. Any light bulb store website would be a good reference for looking these things up.
The fixture is a Hubbell NRG-527 "RetroPak"
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