1   Lamps / Modern / Re: Metallic thallium vs thallium iodide vapour pressure  on: Today at 06:08:59 AM 
Started by dor123 - Last post by dor123
So why sodium iodide have lower vapor pressure than metallic sodium? (In HPS lamps, the sodium vaporizes easily, while in my BLV Colorlite HIT-DE 70W Orange lamp, it takes very long time to vaporize, and the arctube have heat reflective coatings at the ends).
 2   Lamps / Modern / Re: Metallic thallium vs thallium iodide vapour pressure  on: Today at 05:48:52 AM 
Started by dor123 - Last post by Medved
Bare metal is just different material than a compound containing it. The bare atoms tend to attract each other way stronger than the molecules of thallium iodine. The valence electrons like to pair orbits with others. In a bare metal it leads to forming the crystalline structure, but when paired with a halogen atom (I), the electrons are extremely happy so not much forces to other molecules. So easy to release with just a little shake (aka not that high temperature), hence the high vapor pressure...
 3   General / Off-Topic / Re: Why diesel engines emits black smoke when starting  on: Today at 04:48:04 AM 
Started by dor123 - Last post by Medved
Normally the shut down should cut off the fuel injection first, regardless what fuel injection control it is using (pure mechanical, hydraulic governor, electronic,...; all have an input lever/signal to cut off the fuel for engine shut down). Air intake choke is only a backup method (it is able to stop even a runaway engine in case it starts running on its lubricating oil or so), it is to be activated only with some delay or when the fuel cutoff is not effective.
Plus you don't want the unburnt lightweight diesel fuel to dissolve and wash out the lubricating oil film on the cylinder walls after the shut down, so it is important to stop the fuel first before the lubrication is stopped (so the engine itself spooling down).

So unless the engine is faulty (e.g. misaligned shut off sequence control cutting out the air before the fuel, or the engine is actually burning oil or so,...), there is no reason for any smoke at shut down.

 4   Lamps / Modern / Metallic thallium vs thallium iodide vapour pressure  on: Today at 04:46:21 AM 
Started by dor123 - Last post by dor123
Metallic thallium have so low vapour pressure, that thallium spectral lamps like that of Osram, have their arctubes enclosed in a metal cylinder for heat conversion.
In contrast: Thallium iodide have so high vapour pressure that green MH lamps usually don't have heat reflective coatings at the end of their arctubes, can run up and hot restrike very fast compared to white MH lamps of the same wattage.
How this is the happens?
 5   General / Off-Topic / Re: Why diesel engines emits black smoke when starting  on: Today at 04:40:03 AM 
Started by dor123 - Last post by dor123
@marcopete87: I don't think that dust is the cause of the huge and thick black smoke during starting. The large generator of Shmerling near the trash compactor produces much less black smoke during starting, and the exhaust of the generator for the reverse osmosis system don't emit black smoke at all during starting.
 6   General / Off-Topic / Re: Why diesel engines emits black smoke when starting  on: Today at 04:25:12 AM 
Started by dor123 - Last post by marcopete87
If It have an mechanical pump, It May be due shutdown method: because diesel doesn't have Spark plug, the only method Is to close aspiration with a valve.
When valve Is closed, It Will run briefly in Rich mixture, so It Will create a lot of dust which Will be deposited on muffler.
At the next start, the dust Will be blown out and then, here the smoke.
 7   General / General Discussion / Re: Interesting effect....  on: Today at 04:06:18 AM 
Started by sol - Last post by dor123
I've seen lots of LED highbays and floodlights that have very strong 100hz flickering on the camera.
 8   Lamps / Modern / Re: Why so many LED lamps not for enclosed fixtures?  on: Today at 03:48:56 AM 
Started by Cole D. - Last post by James
You are quite right, but my main point about waste was from fixtures that contain more than just metal and glass.  Specifically enclosed fixtures for low volt halogen lamps with electronic transformers, and fluorescent fixtures containing electronic ballasts.

A year or two ago a European study showed that the quantity of electronic waste being generated by the replacement of luminaires had skyrocketed from insignificant levels, so now generating comparable volumes of E-waste as the quite heavily regulated industry for white goods electrical appliances.  This has stimulated recent political focus concerning how to reduce the enormous and still rapidly increasing waste stream that is suddenly being generated by the lighting industry during the past few years.

When traditional lamps were phased out, one of the justifications was that there are adequate LED retrofits available for almost all general lighting fixtures and that there would be limited need to replace the fixtures.  The reality has shown that this is absolutely not correct.  The problem is compounded by the quantity of new LED fixtures that are failing long before the published lifetimes.  It is made even more severe by the short product lifecycles.  If a shop installs eg 100 LED downlights and after 2 years 10% have failed, it is often impossible to obtain visually identical replacements for the already obsolete designs.  Or due to natural colour drift of LEDs over time, the new versions look unacceptably different.  This often results in the whole installation being replaced and the 90% good fixtures are also thrown out.  Often this is justified financially by the fact that the newer versions are more energy-efficient, and in countries with very high electricity prices it is actually cheaper to scrap luminaires that are only a couple of years old.

The result is new requirements on the repairability and upgradeability of lighting fixtures - a new industry that is emerging.  Incidentally just last week the UK authorities published a proposal for a new international safety and performance standard governing the so-called “Remanufacture of Luminaires”, which are not adequately covered by the existing IEC / EN standards for LED luminaires.
 9   Lamps / Modern / Re: Why so many LED lamps not for enclosed fixtures?  on: Today at 03:31:35 AM 
Started by Cole D. - Last post by Medved
"It is extremely unhelpful for the customer because now there are certain kinds of fixtures for which it is completely almost impossible to find any LED retrofit lamp via retail channels that will deliver satisfactory service.  Some manufacturers seem to expect the customer to learn that by experience, and throw away the existing closed fixtures in favour of larger or more open or fully integrated LED fixtures.  The resulting ecological problem from electrical waste generation is becoming huge."

According to me the problem is not that much those fixtures needs to be ditched, the fixtures alone do not pose that much of a waste load to the environment, as the recycleability is quite high.

The main waste problem I see here is the need for common customers to find that by wasting many lamps first. These are the main source of an unnecessary waste.

And also I see as quite a waste spending all that effort trying to make a nonsensical arrangement (trying to marry two things that the nature really does not want together, like enclosed fixtures with retrofit lamps) to work. Not that it is not technically possible, but it is nothing else than waste of resources.  Saving a small piece of steel and glass does not help the environment by far enough as not spending all that effort and cost (both environmental, as well as financial, both manufacture/purchase of the required technology, as well as all the R&D going into it) in something that may use way less energy and last way longer.
 10   Lamps / Modern / Re: Why so many LED lamps not for enclosed fixtures?  on: Today at 02:23:19 AM 
Started by Cole D. - Last post by James
Angryhorse has hit the nail on the head!  Every year the photoelectric performance of LED lamps and fully integrated LED luminaires gets better - but at the same time cost pressures mean that the lifetime, reliability and general quality seems to get much worse.  Some manufacturers are finding it’s not unusual for as many as 10%-20% of LED products to fail within the first year or two of service, and the warranty claim costs can totally wipe out the company’s profits.  Some of those who continue to offer bad quality products look for caveats to get out of honouring such claims.

It is extremely unhelpful for the customer because now there are certain kinds of fixtures for which it is completely almost impossible to find any LED retrofit lamp via retail channels that will deliver satisfactory service.  Some manufacturers seem to expect the customer to learn that by experience, and throw away the existing closed fixtures in favour of larger or more open or fully integrated LED fixtures.  The resulting ecological problem from electrical waste generation is becoming huge.

Even in the fixtures world this is becoming a big problem.  At a time when we have to insulate buildings better to reduce energy costs, a very common logo found on the technical datasheets of ceiling recessed fixtures, panels, downlights etc is that it’s not allowed to cover them with insulation any more!  Otherwise they overheat and burn out quickly.  Few customers realise at the time of purchase that they have to cut big holes in their roof insulation, even up to eg 20cm all around the perimeter of the fixture.

Another increasingly common trick on ceiling fixtures, track spots etc is to state “max ambient temperature 25C”.  To most people that sounds OK since typical rooms are cooler.  But heat rises, and at the ceiling height or in ceiling voids the usual temperature is closer to 30C and in summer even higher.  I know of many fixtures from formerly big brands where even safety can be compromised - for instance plastic or electronic components or wiring insulation might be running actually at the maximum safe operating temperatures declared on their datasheets, at ambient 25C.  However at ceiling temperatures they know this will be exceeded, but claim immunity by stating that the customer is not allowed to use at higher and even typical or expected ambient temperatures.  The laws on “expected use conditions” are not especially robust and open to interpretation, and many choose to ignore what is to me an obvious safety or reliability risk.

In Europe it’s now compulsory to state the actual maximum allowed operating temperature (unless that is only 25C, in which, ironically, no marking is required).  A few of the better companies allow significant headroom - for mine we invariably state that the fixture is safe for use at up to eg 45 or 50C, and driver life calculations are made not only at 25C, but also at the maximum rated ambient temperature. 

This ensures far more reliable products - but also slightly more expensive, and it is not always an easy sell to persuade customers of the value of selecting fixtures with adequate thermal headroom.  Slowly though the market seems to be learning.  But I consider it unhelpful when certain far bigger companies are so desperate for immediate sales, in an effort to halt their financial failings, that they continue to push the cheapest products that are bound to fail quickly (usually alongside a professional range for the few customers that know how to identify quality products).  The only hope is that over time the irresponsible companies will damage their reputations by such frequent failures that customers begin to look for the better brands.  In professional channels I expect the situation to regulate itself, but for retail sales and home lighting, the LED lamp and fixture market has become a minefield of horrendously unreliable products with no way for the end consumer to identify the good products from bad (other than slow experience by brand name).
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