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Title: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Mike on August 14, 2011, 09:17:44 AM

Ok, remember the lamp that came with my OV10? I THINK it's a Sylvainia lamp, but not positive. Jace told me to check on the base and after looking with a magnifing glass, i fount the number "8". On a little strip of metal i found this:
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                           118


thank you

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Jace the Gull on August 14, 2011, 12:51:12 PM

Congrats! IT is a Sylvania!!! After looking at a pic of your lamp for details like shape of the base insulator and all that. I got it summarized!

It is from October 1990! I was turning 7 that month! I remember it very well!!!

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Mike on August 14, 2011, 10:19:56 PM

Thanks. The PC is two years older than the lamp. I had to use a magnifying glass to read the base the strip of metal could be read under good lighting. The lamp is 8 years older than me.  ;D

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Jace the Gull on August 14, 2011, 10:22:51 PM

Often stuff gets installed 1 or 2 years after they were factory made, I see that all the time! ;-)

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: joe_347V on October 30, 2011, 12:07:03 PM

Yep, I've noticed that most lamps at the store are usually at least around a few months old, most are at least a year.

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Mike on October 30, 2011, 12:13:28 PM

The regent 175w MV lamps i got at Walmart a month ago were from 2005. :o

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: joe_347V on October 30, 2011, 12:15:16 PM

I doubt Walmart moves merc lamps quickly, :P I got a 1981 175w BT merc at hardware store in 2009 before.

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Mike on October 30, 2011, 12:22:46 PM

I should go to some of the local "mom & pop" hardware stores and see if they have old electrical stuff. :D

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: joe_347V on October 30, 2011, 12:26:07 PM

Sometimes the stores with fewer customers will have older stuff but the shopkeepers tend to watch you like a eagle once you step in.???

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Mike on October 30, 2011, 12:30:21 PM

i've noticed that. kinda gets me mad when store owners watch me. It shows that they think I'm going to steal. I'm not that kind of person, so i don't like to be wathced like one. >:(

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: joe_347V on October 30, 2011, 12:32:59 PM

Ugh, I hate that feeling too then the owner gets all surprised when I pick all the "old junk" out. ;D  :8)

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Mike on October 30, 2011, 12:38:28 PM

You can't buy spraypaint in Rhode Island if you are a minor. There's to reasons for this: 1. grafitte 2. teens inhailing the fumes. I sometimes wonder why some people my generation likes to sniff fumes. ???

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: joe_347V on October 30, 2011, 12:41:09 PM

Beats me  :8)  I don't think Ontario has that regulation but I could be wrong.

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Jace the Gull on November 02, 2011, 01:56:18 PM

Hey I know a shop that has 3 HPS fixtures with REFLECTOR SHAPED LAMPS included....the fixtures were from the 80s...and the price? Original price from 25 years ago....138 bucks each...no wonder why they have had those 3 worn boxes of the fixtures....collecting....DUST!

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Mike on November 02, 2011, 03:29:19 PM

Bring a pen and put a decimal in there so it says $1.38  >:D (Nah, don't really do that, i was just kidding. ;D)

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: joe_347V on November 02, 2011, 05:18:10 PM

Reflector shaped HPS. :o I've never even heard of such a lamp.

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: Mike on November 02, 2011, 08:40:25 PM

Me neither.

Title: Re: Help on ID'ing Mercury vapor lamp
Post by: joe_347V on November 02, 2011, 09:48:23 PM

Any chance of a pic Jace?