My Westinghouse RMA-10 NEMA Head - RMA With Clear Lamp

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Album name:	Mike / My Westinghouse RMA-10 NEMA Head
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Date added:	May 17, 2014
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Focal length:	28.8125 mm
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Make:	Vivicam
Model:	V5024
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GEsoftwhite100watts

[May 18, 2014 at 03:48 AM]

Mine (a 175w 90s ElectriPak) makes grass and trees look nice with the clear lamp (the only two MV lamps I have are clear) but wood looks greenish of course...blue 55 gallon drums look purple, (as do those blue Carlon electrical junction boxes). With a 175w MH lamp that amazingly strikes up on that HX ballast, colors look much better and it's a LOT brighter! I left the MV in mine though and haven't lit it in months to be honest! With a diffuser the glare wasn't too bad but when I junked the broken, taped-up diffuser it became a glare bomb like no other! Shocked

streetlight98

[May 18, 2014 at 03:52 AM]

Yeah coated lamps are a lot easier on the eyes. I actually prefer coated MV lamps, and coated lamps in general. yeah once in a while i can get a Mh to strike on a MV ballast.

GEsoftwhite100watts

[May 19, 2014 at 03:56 AM]

Me too! I've never owned a coated lamp, of any phosphor type, (MV) although I have a 400w coated MH and a 1000w one too but the latter I've never lit as I don't have the ballast...will a 400w CWA one work for a short test run?

joe_347V

[May 19, 2014 at 05:49 AM]

Nice! Yeah I prefer coated lamps at low mounting heights since they have less glare. My 100w merc yardlight has a Sylvania E-17 /DX bulb in it.

Form109

[May 19, 2014 at 04:21 PM]

I don't know if I prefer one over the other....I just like MV Period lol. though no other light source creates that 5700K Blue-Green glow of clear mercs. they're pleasant to drive under.

GEsoftwhite100watts

[Apr 28, 2015 at 02:00 AM]

I like how this looks! Nice pic with the twilight and all.

streetlight98

[Apr 28, 2015 at 02:47 AM]

Thanks! I do too but prefer the /DX lamp. I can't mount this light though since it's smaller than my cobraheads so a cobrahead can't fit where I'm storing this. So if I mounted this, I'd be down one storage spot. So this light won't see much use right now lol.

GEsoftwhite100watts

[Apr 28, 2015 at 03:51 PM]

Yeah and relatively speaking it's a glarebomb to the neighbors compared to a cobrahead...

gmercury2000

[Apr 28, 2015 at 04:03 PM]

I love the look of a clear merc. So does my Gf. She calls it the zombie light and loves taking pics under it. Laughing

streetlight98

[Apr 28, 2015 at 10:22 PM]

Yeah this isn't as bad as a yardblaster though since the thicker refractor has actual prisms that direct the light downward. Yardblaster diffusers just have ribs that really serve no purpose lol

Yeah clear mercs are definitely one of the more unique light sources out there. I prefer /DX mercs though for the better color rendering and more light output. /C mercs are my favorite though. Cool

My only /C is a NOS 1967 400W cleartop Sylvania (quite a lamp I must say!)

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Gallery of Lights

RMA With Clear Lamp

Lit with an older ED23.5 Philips lamp, nearly no blackening. Makes the grass look very nice but that's about it lol. Makes me look like Shreck and since it's clear there's more glare. I left the clear lamp in though.