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Lamps => News about Lamps => Topic started by: vaporeyes on February 27, 2013, 12:33:49 AM

Title: UV burn from broken metal halide lamps
Post by: vaporeyes on February 27, 2013, 12:33:49 AM

Old news, and something you've likely heard of before:

http://www.uvlightburns.com/

What should be banned also are maintenance people who don't know about, or pay attention to, the condition of the lighting fixtures used in their facilities...and installers who use an open-type, unprotected (no metal grille) high-bay fixture in a school gym.

Actually, it would be good to have self-extinguishing metal halide lamps be the norm (I've never seen them for sale, anywhere, though), except it's probably a moot point now that T5, CFL and LED high bays will be the norm instead.

Title: Re: UV burn from broken metal halide lamps
Post by: GEsoftwhite100watts on February 27, 2013, 11:20:32 AM

Personally I agree- all MH lamps should be self-extinguishing. 
But they should use them in enclosed fixtures if they're in places like school gyms...