Gallery of Lights
Lamps => Modern => Topic started by: joe_347V on January 26, 2012, 10:36:24 PM
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Found this (http://www.philips.com/l/lamps/compact-high-intensity-discharge/mastercolour-cdm/mastercolour-cdm-i-a65/61213/cat/) interesting self-ballasted CMH lamp from Philips linked to on an L-G post.
They remind me of a modern version of the GE Halarc First Light (http://www.lamptech.co.uk/Spec%20Sheets/GE%20First%20Light.htm) from the 80s (anyone here have one?). Note that these are European spec lamps and are probably 240v only.
I wonder how much this is since I know Philips also makes SBMH PAR38s and they're not cheap so I guess this will be $$$$$ too.
Picture and link to PDF (http://download.p4c.philips.com/l4bt/3/345808/mastercolour_cdm-i_a65_345808_ffs_aen.pdf):
(http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss50/joseph_125ON/Gallery%20of%20Lights/ddb9667c.jpg)
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Given the fact it have an electronic ballast. It's possible we might see them in America. Will cost a WHOLE lot of $$$$$$$ just the same in Europe or America I'll bet.
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Yeah it'll probably cost more than even those LED lamps.
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Those Philips SBMH PR38s are nice but expensive. I totally lucked out about a year ago. There is a commercial surplus place here in town that sells all kinds of overstock. They had the Philips 25w SBMH PAR38s in both spot and flood for about $8 each! That is about 1/10th of the usual retail price. I bought only 3 because I don't have much use for them around the house. They can't be used outdoors in uncovered fixtures.
I go to that store frequently and was surprised that someone did not snatch up all of them - perhaps a retail store owner - because they could save a ton of money on power use if they switched over from halogen PARs. Even more than a year later, there were a few left.
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I was the one that opened the post about this lamp in L-G: http://www.lighting-gallery.net/index.php?topic=2408.0 .