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My two 250 watt ballast boxes The one is 250 watt MV/MH ballast box...the other is a 250 watt HPS ballast box! What do you think guys? Keywords: Gear

My two 250 watt ballast boxes

The one is 250 watt MV/MH ballast box...the other is a 250 watt HPS ballast box! What do you think guys?

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Album name:Jace the Gull / Ballasts
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gmercury2000   [Sep 27, 2011 at 06:16 PM]
Nice set up, I really like those new diffused lamps from GE, they really work a lot better in FCO fixtures!
rjluna2   [Sep 27, 2011 at 07:10 PM]
Outside etch frosted HPS bulb?!? Shocked
gmercury2000   [Sep 27, 2011 at 07:18 PM]
Yuppers, we are trying those out now as there is less glare due to the slightly more diffused light while still getting the FCO effect
joe_347V   [Sep 27, 2011 at 07:24 PM]
Shocked Anyone try acid etching lamps by yourself?
streetlight98   [Sep 27, 2011 at 07:55 PM]
I've used sharpie to make etches on incandescent lamps. It works well and will only come off with hard scrubbing.
GullWhiz   [Sep 27, 2011 at 08:48 PM]
He's talking about frosted lamp...not putting etches on....
streetlight98   [Sep 27, 2011 at 09:02 PM]
i've done that too with incandescent lamps, not with acid though. I used good ol' spray paint. Laughing Came out really good, but lost it. Mad I'm all out of white spray paint too.
FGS   [Sep 27, 2011 at 09:29 PM]
I have seen these show up on ebay a while ago.

Except the ebay ones are inside etched while this one is outside. Are they gonna stay or are they a trial?
mercuryvaporrocks   [Sep 27, 2011 at 09:31 PM]
Who makes these frosted lamps?
streetlight98   [Sep 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM]
According to Gmercury's comment, these are GE.
joe_347V   [Sep 28, 2011 at 01:00 AM]
Is that a retrofit HPS on the left?
streetlight98   [Sep 28, 2011 at 01:01 AM]
Maybe... i thought the retrofit bulbs had a thin metal wire that spiraled up the outside of the arctube.
GullWhiz   [Sep 28, 2011 at 02:58 AM]
Joe you are right...it is a retrofit HPS lamp with a glow bottle starter inside!
joe_347V   [Sep 28, 2011 at 05:07 AM]
Interesting...a integral glow bottle starter. I thought it was one of those integral ignitor HPS retrofit lamps at first.
GullWhiz   [Sep 28, 2011 at 01:23 PM]
That glow bottle glows PINK when starting up! It's a very used Philips HPS retrofit lamp from 1994.....it has many hours and still good! The others where it came from, some are still woring great, others already glowing white, others have blackening on the outer glass, some already stopped working, some already got relamped from dead retrofit to going back to 250 watt merc, some are now relamped with MH LOL!!
Silverliner14B   [Sep 28, 2011 at 02:20 PM]
Nice set ups Jace the Gull. I knew the bulb on the left was a Philips Retrolux 215w lamp by looking at it. The frosted bulb is a GE eh? I know they make diffuse HPS lamps in E28 and E37 envelopes.
Max   [Sep 29, 2011 at 09:41 PM]
That's interesting .. I knew that Sylvania used to market inside-frosted tubular lamps in Europe during the 1980s, but I was not aware that GE proposed such a product nowadays...
GullWhiz   [Sep 29, 2011 at 09:55 PM]
They didn't Geoff made up that idea, I kinda played along......

I have gotten those lamps "frosted" yes permanet type of this texture.........how??? Secret.....it's not exactly a home made thing to do....although it's homemade but 99 percent of us do not have the equipments to do this......LOL
streetlight98   [Sep 29, 2011 at 10:22 PM]
How did you make this frosted?
gmercury2000   [Sep 29, 2011 at 10:30 PM]
Lol I was told not to tell so I figured I'de have a little fun w/ this!

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