MV or MH??

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Gearjammer
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Just wondering if anyone has any idea what type of lamp that I noticed lit up in the so-called yardblaster.
It's a coated lamp with a very bright white light but it seems like it has just the very slightest hint of a pinkish hue.
I have no idea how old it is.
Couldn't get a picture because of a combination of my phone camera and because it's on someone else's property.
Any ideas??

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Long live the HPS and SOX!

I’d guess it’s probably a coated MH? If not it could be a very new /DX MV.

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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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Is it really an HID?

If it is something really new, it could be one of the Philips "TForce HPL-LED" retrofit lamp...

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No more selfballasted c***

Gearjammer
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As far as I know that lamp is likely from the 90s, but it doesn't get used very much.

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What you describe of sounds exactly like a coated MV lamp. It being from the nineties also kind of confirms that.

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Save all the cool old stuff, and even the not so cool/old stuff. It'll be cool eventually. One day people will look back and feel nostalgia.

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I believe that in the 1990’s, there were no yard blaster type of fixtures that ran metal halide lamps. That would make it very likely to be a mercury vapour lamp. Have you been able to see it strike and warm up ?

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