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A video done about 4 years ago by DanTheAwesomeMan. He explains why he overloads the lamp, He does is with a variable ballast and when he is overloading it, he makes it dimmable as the brightness changes. It's probably not dimming but it just looks like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtdhSopACQ |
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I"m don't speak English well, and rely on online translating to write in this site. Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.
I only working with the European date format (dd.mm.yyyy).
I lives in Israel, which is a 230-240V, 50hz country.
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dor123: I saw this video a long time ago and IIRC the reason he does this is to see how an HID lamp behaves (and fails) when overloaded. |
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He can try this on a cheap generic Chinese MV lamp. Not on a quality MV lamp. |
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I"m don't speak English well, and rely on online translating to write in this site. Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.
I only working with the European date format (dd.mm.yyyy).
I lives in Israel, which is a 230-240V, 50hz country.
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Maybe he used it because either it was the first thing he had on hand (or bought) or he did not want to use a cheap lamp because the quality control of the cheaper lamps may make it fail prematurely.
But anyways it does suck that he did this to a perfectly good Osram lamp. |
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These German Osram HQL 80W lasted a lots of years, and had the Lifeguard emitter coating that turned the arctube white instead of black. |
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I"m don't speak English well, and rely on online translating to write in this site. Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.
I only working with the European date format (dd.mm.yyyy).
I lives in Israel, which is a 230-240V, 50hz country.
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