Personal collection - Westinghouse 250w Corstar

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Filename:	20150802_231653.jpg
Album name:	gmercury2000 / Personal collection
Keywords:	Lamps
Company and Date Manufactured:	Westinghouse September 1975
Model Number:	Ceramalux C250S50
Wattage:	250
Lamp Type:	High Pressure Sodium
Filesize:	190 KiB
Date added:	Aug 03, 2015
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DateTime Original:	2015:08:02 23:16:53
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Focal length:	4.13 mm
Make:	Samsung
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Model:	SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
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Solanaceae

[Aug 03, 2015 at 03:38 AM]

Nice

How much was this?

gmercury2000

[Aug 03, 2015 at 03:54 AM]

Well let's just say it was a little more than the wattage of one lamp. Wink

GEsoftwhite100watts

[Aug 03, 2015 at 05:42 AM]

Neat find! How do they compare to a regular lamp when lit?

lite_lover

[Aug 03, 2015 at 08:04 AM]

Nice find!! Cool

streetlight98

[Aug 03, 2015 at 08:40 AM]

Nice! Yeah my question is the same as Andy's. Do these look different when lit?

gmercury2000

[Aug 03, 2015 at 02:39 PM]

There's not really any difference in the light when lit. Still the ugly orange hps glow. Lol

Solanaceae

[Aug 03, 2015 at 08:13 PM]

But with a tinge of rarity. Laughing

gmercury2000

[Aug 03, 2015 at 08:40 PM]

True, that's why I will allow them into my home. Lol

Solanaceae

[Aug 03, 2015 at 09:21 PM]

HPS beats LEDisease though.

gmercury2000

[Aug 03, 2015 at 09:40 PM]

Eh, the one plus for me with led is the lack of maintenence that we have to perform. It's less work and seeing the quality of hid lamps now I would rather see led. There's no lumen loss over the life and we're not out to the same light every 6 months to replace a crappy lamp. But over all led will never beat the classic hid look.

streetlight98

[Aug 03, 2015 at 09:45 PM]

LEDs do dim out, contrary to popular belief, though the newer ones are not as bad as the early ones.

gmercury2000

[Aug 03, 2015 at 10:09 PM]

Yeah, I should have said that they don't dim out as fast or quite as extreme as hid.

streetlight98

[Aug 03, 2015 at 11:51 PM]

Ah yeah PSMH and HPS maintain pretty good lumens. Probe start MH and MV dim the most. The MH lamps my workplace uses in the lowbays and highbays dim REALLU badly. I don't know the brand, but they're ED-shaped lamps, so they're not Sylvania. I'm thinking GE since they use a lot of GE fluorescents, but they've started using T8LED retrofit tubes, which are Philips .

gmercury2000

[Aug 03, 2015 at 11:53 PM]

Ge's are by far the worst when it comes to mh. They're dim right out of the box compared to philips and Sylvania.

Silverliner14B

[Aug 04, 2015 at 09:47 PM]

I wouldn't mind trading for one?

Solanaceae

[Aug 05, 2015 at 02:16 AM]

Same here. Smile

Keep in mind you're not as big of a fan of :hps: Laughing

gmercury2000

[Aug 05, 2015 at 04:35 AM]

Well not a fan of the color. But I must say these make a nice display piece.

streetlight98

[Aug 05, 2015 at 08:50 AM]

What's the color like? It's not like other HPS lamps?

gmercury2000

[Aug 05, 2015 at 09:02 AM]

No, it's the same color as standard hps. What I meant by my last comment was I don't care for the orange of hps in general. These have the same but they make nice display pieces.

streetlight98

[Aug 05, 2015 at 08:15 PM]

Ah I see. What's the difference between this and a conventional ceramic arc tube HPS? (aside from the arc tube)

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Gallery of Lights

Westinghouse 250w Corstar

I recently aquired this lot of 250w lamps. I've never seen these in 250w, only 150w 100v and 400w. Would have been happy with 2 but the seller was selling as a lot so it was all or none. I gave a bit more than I would have liked but seeing the rarity of these it was well worth it.