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Niagara Falls Lights!
Here are the lights the light up Niagara Falls nightly! Each fixture is 4kW Xenon short arc (the scary lamps) and there are 21 of them, talk about a lot of wattage!
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Niagara Falls Lights!

Here are the lights the light up Niagara Falls nightly! Each fixture is 4kW Xenon short arc (the scary lamps) and there are 21 of them, talk about a lot of wattage!

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streetlight98   [Mar 13, 2012 at 02:32 AM]
Why are these scarey lamps?
gailgrove   [Mar 13, 2012 at 02:34 AM]
See this video, that is exactly why, they explode very easily and for no reason!
joe_347V   [Mar 13, 2012 at 04:27 AM]
streetlight98   [Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM]
Oh. I see. Shocked
gailgrove   [Mar 13, 2012 at 02:14 PM]
Yeah, these are about the only lamps I wouldn't want to collect.
MercuryVapor175   [Mar 13, 2012 at 07:39 PM]
I wonder what would happen if you dropped a 18kw HMI lamp... Confused
rlshieldjr   [Mar 13, 2012 at 09:15 PM]
I was there as a kid in the 60s, prolly carbon arcs back then, with colored filters/lenses.
gailgrove   [Mar 13, 2012 at 09:31 PM]
Yeah from what I've read they were carbon arc until the 90s. These lights still use coloured lenses and are manually controlled from what I understand.
ZarlogH46   [Mar 20, 2017 at 02:06 AM]
Do these run dusk to dawn? Also, why do they use short arc lamps instead of metal halide lamps? 1000w or 1500w should work just fine in this application.
joe_347V   [Mar 20, 2017 at 04:00 AM]
I'm not sure why they use short arcs, maybe they wanted the brilliant whites from them. I believe the lights are switched off at midnight or 1AM.

Anyway the last time I was there, which was last weekend I noticed that they replaced all the short arcs with high power LED floods, similar to what's used in stage lighting.

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