I have an Osram Powerarc HIT-T 70w (bi-pin G12, quartz MH) made in China.
https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-251627

BTW it seems that Discord has clarified its policy as applying age id specifically only for their adult forums. OK if one really wants some unlimited porn, VPN to the rescue. Today's VPN evolved so tough that are hard to eradicate even under deeply undemocratic regimes like Russia or China...

I think OS-based verification will finally repeal (at least on desktop) as being a combo of stupid and intrusive. Sky is not falling.

@James site to the rescue   https://www.lamptech.co.uk/Documents/M4%20Nomenclature.htm

C second letter seems to be a modern addition, looks logical for Ceramic.

HIT is BLV (or some Chinese off-brand?) nomenclature, not Osram's.

PS:

HIT-T does exist, indeed. I think it is modern Ledvance addition for Chinese-originated lamp. Note NON-EU mark in the datasheet. May be a special non-European out-of-prohibition series for the rest of the world.

I wonder how they're going to implement this, I doubt legacy OSes such as Windows 8.1 and older will be patched on the OS side to have such a feature, and I'm pretty sure open source OSes such as Linux kernel will get patched or forked to remove this ID check verification.

Unfortunately it seems to go with the current trend of more and more online services requiring proof of ID to use their services...which also conveniently allows them to store your ID and make it vulnerable to security breaches from them or whatever 3rd party vendor they used for the ID verification...Discord being a good example ironically.

I'm curious, what about legacy OSes? There's still thousands of people who use windows 7 and other out of support OSes worldwide. Even windows 10 will be out of support in some months.
Would they be exempt from this? Is there a chance devices with older OSes would be blocked from using the web as they "cannot comply with age verification laws"?


(I'm just preparing in case this "age verification" thing becomes global)

What do their HQL, HQI, HIT, HCI acronyms mean?
Also they have three distinct lines of Metal Halide bulbs:

POWERSTAR, POWERARC and POWERBALL.

For example, in my personal collection there is a POWERARC HIT-T 1000W/D bulb.
But it seems like this same bulb has a POWERSTAR variant.

How are they different?

@RCM442
That is true, everything you do no matter how justified always seems to have criticism. You put in a lot of work on this platform and you deserve recognition for that in my opinion. I understand it is a lot easier to just eliminate an entire topic rather than combing through comments deleting the ones that might be bad. Ideally any unruliness would be handled on a user by user basis, but you are only one person and that would be a lot of work.

I think I have said this before, but more moderators would theoretically help. But obviously not all moderators are the same and some hold different standards and that just causes controversy. So I would say just keep doing what you're doing right now, you're doing an excellent job.

@lightsofpahrump
My interest has done the same thing, but my lighting phases seem to last a lot longer than other electrical phases of interest just due to the fact that LG exists.

I deserve a...dude, where's the slapping emoji?

We have it at at the gallery side

Actually I use phone with LineageOS and I'm not going to change that.
BTW LineageOS is the succesor of CyanogenMod