After reading that the European Sylvania Relumina ceramic metal halide retrofit lamps for the European market utilize a built-in inductor to help achieve significant energy savings by adding a series impedance between the mercury vapor reactor ballast and the arc tube, I also understand that reactor ballasts are often highly sensitive to variations in line voltage and AC frequency. Generally, a higher applied line voltage means the lamp draws more current while a higher applied AC frequency means that the lamp draws less current.
Ideally, I am pretty sure that these lamps in particular are generally optimized to run on European 220-240V 50Hz mercury vapor reactor ballasts.
If I was to operate the 85W or 80W Relumina retrofit lamp designed for 125W mercury vapor ballasts on a 220V 60Hz mercury vapor reactor ballast designed for 125W mercury vapor lamps, would the higher AC frequency cause the lamp to be underdriven compared to operating it on a 240V 50Hz 125W mercury vapor reactor ballast under the assumption that the ballasts are operating on the correct voltage and frequency?
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