Neon or Xenon HPS lamps??

Lighting-Gallery.net | General | General Discussion | Topic: Neon or Xenon HPS lamps??

Author

Topic: Neon or Xenon HPS lamps?? (Read 734 times)

Desultory13
Guest

I was always under the impression that HPS lamps were filled with a small amount of Neon gas to aid in the starting of the lamp.
However, I just recently read that during the 90s HPS lamps were now filled with Xenon gas and was wondering if anyone could provide more information about this?

Logged

Rommie
Administrator
Member

Offline

Gender: Female

View Posts
View Gallery

Andromeda Ascendant

Can't say I've ever heard of neon in an HPS lamp, but as always I have to admit I may well be wrong. All the examples I looked at on Lamptech show Na/Hg/Xe though.

Logged

Ria (aka Rommie) in Aberdeen
Administrator, UK & European time zones. Any questions or problems, please feel free to get in touch

"What greater gift than the love of a cat..?" - Charles Dickens
*** No smiley-only replies, please ***

Max
Member

Offline

View Posts
View Gallery

Standard and high-performance HPS lamps are indeed filled with a xenon start gas, but a certain type of retrofit lamps designed to self-ignite at low voltages are filled with neon with a percent or so of argon (here's an example).

Logged

Rommie
Administrator
Member

Offline

Gender: Female

View Posts
View Gallery

Andromeda Ascendant

Thanks for the explanation, Max.

Logged

Pages: [1]