Oct 08, 2016 at 05:19 AM Author: Globe Collector
Did you recover the niobium from the arc tube seals? Looks like one of those G.E. things with a wire at the base end and a resevior tube at the crown end. There were loads of these inside Cadbruy's Clairmont plant here in Hobart.

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Oct 08, 2016 at 05:45 AM Author: dor123
I think that this lamp is still useful. Super HPS lamps, retains their original color until EOL and never cycles at EOL but just dead silent.

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Oct 08, 2016 at 10:13 AM Author: AngryHorse
No, didn`t take the niobium, is this sought after by people???, just wondered why you asked? dor, yes this still worked well, but put a definite `shadow` on the light output, I have seen these go black quite quickly after this stage.

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Oct 08, 2016 at 06:14 PM Author: Globe Collector
Have you ever seen, touched or handled Niobium before? If the answer is, "No" then it is probably quite a rare metal, (even if its compounds might be common, like Titanium, the reduction and subsequent smelting processes are difficult and exacting), so I believe we should value and recycle such things. When you have enough, take it to the Chemistry Department of the nearest University.

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Jun 23, 2018 at 08:59 PM Author: Liam
Quote from dor123 on Oct 08, 2016 at 05:45 AM I think that this lamp is still useful. Super HPS lamps, retains their original color until EOL and never cycles at EOL but just dead silent. @Dor i removed a Ge LUCALOX 50w XO dated March 2003 that cycles and is pink, i also have Philips PIA Plus Osram Super 4Y Sylvania SHP-TS and Venture Ho lamps im my collection that cycle. The only lamps that cycle and have stayed there normal Gold color is the Osram Super 4Y and venture HO all the others burn pink.

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Jun 24, 2018 at 02:53 AM Author: AngryHorse
Did I even ever give you this?????, I thought I`d lost it?

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Jun 24, 2018 at 03:03 AM Author: AngryHorse
No, no, I`d thought I`d lost it to be able to give it to you! , got a memory like a fish......what?..... My best EOL SON lamp is a 150watt GE elliptical, doesn`t run for long, without cycling, but goes through some amazing colours while it gets there!

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Jun 24, 2018 at 03:21 AM Author: dor123
Quote from Liam on Jun 23, 2018 at 08:59 PM @Dor i removed a Ge LUCALOX 50w XO dated March 2003 that cycles and is pink, i also have Philips PIA Plus Osram Super 4Y Sylvania SHP-TS and Venture Ho lamps im my collection that cycle. The only lamps that cycle and have stayed there normal Gold color is the Osram Super 4Y and venture HO all the others burn pink. At Kiryat Ata, we had a lot of Osram NAV-E 250W Super 4Y in the first decade of the 2000's. All of them retained their color until EOL, and all of them had non-cycling EOL. Also I've never seen a super HPS lamp in Haifa going pink like the regular SON lamps at EOL.

I"m don't speak English well, and rely on online translating to write in this site.
Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.

I only working with the European date format (dd.mm.yyyy).

I lives in Israel, which is a 230-240V, 50hz country.