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35 watt is my new favorite HPS lamp due to it being of manageable brightness. I plan to stock many.
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How long until other lamps cease production?
There can't be that many 35 watt HPS fixtures around, and only somewhat more 50 watters. Mercury vapor there's still an awful lot of 175 and 250 watt yardblasters and NEMA heads but how many larger and smaller wattages?
Well from what I have seen 35w HPS wallpacks are pretty common so I'd imagine 35w HPS at least will still be available for a while longer.
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Yeah, I've seen 35w HPS around in wallpacks but 50w MV is another story. I don't think I've seen a 50w MV fixture in the wild before.
Still thinking of getting some more 35w HPS lamps and gear though.
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How long until other lamps cease production?
There can't be that many 35 watt HPS fixtures around, and only somewhat more 50 watters. Mercury vapor there's still an awful lot of 175 and 250 watt yardblasters and NEMA heads but how many larger and smaller wattages?
I may be wrong, but now that the Hamilton factory has closed, I don't think that there are any lamp manufacturers in the UK any more There are still a few HPS street lamps and car park lights around here, but not all that many now, I don't think it will be long before LED claims its last victim
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Long live the HPS and SOX!
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That’s just sad. Imagine if LEDs never came, and then high efficiency HIDs like low pressure sodium and HIDs with good CRI like ceramic metal halide would have actually gotten a chance.
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I’ve always been interested in all kinds of lighting, mainly incandescent and HID, and especially all kinds of sodium lamps (HPS/LPS). I’ll tolerate LED but I’m not a fan of it. I’m not proud to say that my city has Devolved to LED.
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That’s just sad. Imagine if LEDs never came, and then high efficiency HIDs like low pressure sodium and HIDs with good CRI like ceramic metal halide would have actually gotten a chance.
LPS was around for many decades so I don't understand what do you mean by that.
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Long live the HPS and SOX!
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If LEDs didn’t come, then LPS would have been kept as the most efficient light source.
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I’ve always been interested in all kinds of lighting, mainly incandescent and HID, and especially all kinds of sodium lamps (HPS/LPS). I’ll tolerate LED but I’m not a fan of it. I’m not proud to say that my city has Devolved to LED.
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If LEDs didn’t come, then LPS would have been kept as the most efficient light source.
What killed LPS is the drive towards "Lovely White Light" We had the chance to drive along a stretch of motorway lit by 180W SOX lamps, and the visibility was brilliant.! You don't need good colour rendering for driving, and what you do need is provided by your headlights.!! As is proved by this YouTube video.!!
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Those look great! You don’t really need color rendering for driving, so SOX can be used on roads while LEDs are used indoors where CRI is required.
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I’ve always been interested in all kinds of lighting, mainly incandescent and HID, and especially all kinds of sodium lamps (HPS/LPS). I’ll tolerate LED but I’m not a fan of it. I’m not proud to say that my city has Devolved to LED.
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Maybe not for driving, but as they changed the street outside my apartment from hps to led everything outside looks now way better because you can actually see the colors. If it was a motorway where I would just drive by I wouldn't mind what sort of light it has but as for residential street where people move around in ways other than jyst car it's nice to see colors.
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Maybe not for driving, but as they changed the street outside my apartment from hps to led everything outside looks now way better because you can actually see the colors. If it was a motorway where I would just drive by I wouldn't mind what sort of light it has but as for residential street where people move around in ways other than jyst car it's nice to see colors.
We would still prefer to have LPS lighting everywhere, maybe it's because we grew up in the era of seeing black and white television programmes and can make the mental adjustment to know what the actual colour is of things. I have problems seeing details in low light conditions, and having the light from LPS or HID sources helps me a lot.
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LED's are gonna create a rediculous amount of sky glow.
That's what they're doing here in neighboring cities.
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LED's are gonna create a rediculous amount of sky glow.
That's what they're doing here in neighboring cities.
Reduced sky glow was supposed to be an advantage of LED, whoops!
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Yes, hence the whoops!
The main interstates in ATL are still all HPS but most cobraheads everywhere else have been converted to LED.
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I was watching the video about driving under SOX light again, and at 6:12 in you see one that has succumbed to LED.! What a glare bomb it is.
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