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My first Lifeguard!
This is sort of one of the holy grails of lamp collecting from what I understand.  Westinghouse clear 175w Lifeguard.  March '79 vintage.  Lightly used too, it could easily outlive me even if it went in dusk to dawn service tonight.  

Special thanks to a fellow collector for this lamp. 
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My first Lifeguard!

This is sort of one of the holy grails of lamp collecting from what I understand. Westinghouse clear 175w Lifeguard. March '79 vintage. Lightly used too, it could easily outlive me even if it went in dusk to dawn service tonight.

Special thanks to a fellow collector for this lamp.

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Album name:GEsoftwhite100watts / HID Lighting
Keywords:Lamps
Company and Date Manufactured:Westinghouse, March 1979
Model Number:H39KB-175
Wattage:175w
Lamp Type:High-Pressure mercury
Filesize:573 KiB
Date added:Oct 21, 2016
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vaporeyes   [Oct 22, 2016 at 09:56 PM]
Welcome to the Lifeguard club. I too searched for years to find one of these and then ended up finding two NOS ones in one week at old hardware stores. There are probably still hundreds of yard lights across the country still burning these from the 1970's and 80's.
lite_lover   [Oct 23, 2016 at 01:04 AM]
Nice lamp!
NiMo   [Oct 23, 2016 at 02:03 PM]
I have three of them. A 175 watt /DX in my OV-15 and two cleartop 250 watt /C lamps.
streetlight98   [Oct 23, 2016 at 02:55 PM]
Cleartops are my favorite. You get a clear lamp and a coated lamp all in one!
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Oct 24, 2016 at 03:08 AM]
I also like clear tops. I guess I'm sort of a member of the clear top club, I have a Chinese version of one that's not the true BT28 shape.

Alain, thanks for the welcome! I'm glad to be a member. Just today I went to Batteries and Bulbs and spent $56.99 of my college student budget for a M57 ballast kit, which will also work for H39, just so I can fire this baby up.
joe_347V   [Oct 24, 2016 at 07:52 AM]
Nice! I have one of these, bought a few years ago off eBay. I also have a 175w /DX I got from a trade with Aaron and a couple of well used /DX 400w ones I got from Restore. One of the 400 watters is in my B2255 after I converted it to 400w MH/MV.

Cool to see you bought a ballast, I spent around the same last year when I bought a 175w replacement ballast for my Crimefighter.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Oct 24, 2016 at 05:44 PM]
Yeah, can't wait to get this baby lit!

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