METAL HALIDE BULBS



Metal Halide Bulbs, retail $TBA
Manufactured by Trichrome Industries (URL not known)
Last updated 01-02-10





These look a lot like outdoor PAR reflector light blubs, but they sport an HID (High Intensity Discharge) tube inside the outer bulb instead of a tungsten filament.

They are rated to consume 70 watts each, and are designed to be used with a special ballast - they will stay dark if you simply screw them into a light receptacle -- though if there just happens to be a very high voltage spike on the 110 volts AC line, they will flash and burn out virtually instantaneously (and possibly rather spectacularly)...you don't want baby emperor scorpions or Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly larvae (caterpillars) ...er...uh...I mean you don't want an unwanted fire!!!

Two of these bulbs are UVB (ultraviolet type B) "pet" lamps -- they're intended to be used with animals that require sunlight like some species of snakes and lizards; the other two are designed to be used as "grow lights" for plants.


 Size of product w/hand to show scale SIZE



To use these bulbs, connect the appropriate ballast (magnetic or digital; 70 watts for HID lamps) to a source of 110 to 130 volts AC 60Hz, and connect the two free terminals to a female E26 screw-base light receptacle. Actually, you should connect it to the light socket ***BEFORE*** connecting it to line voltage.

You should also wire in a switch -- connect it on the "hot" side of the AC line. Be certain the switch is off before you actually apply any power.

Screw the bulb into the female E26 receptacle, apply power, and turn on the switch. The lamp should weakly flash a bit, then come on more steadily -- increasing in intensity over the next several minutes.



This product (and its ballast) is designed to be operated from mains power, so I do not have to tell you which part to remove and then huck into an open-pit platinum or zinc mine so that a piece of heavy machinery will run over & flatten it, and then rather emphatically tell you not to.



The metal halide blubs are meant to be used as specialised light bulbs, not flashlights meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown them in the cistern (toliet tank), bash them against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a patio, let my parent's puppy dog or my sister's citty kats go "tee-tee" on them, run over them with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on them, use a large claw hammer in order to smash them open to check them for candiosity (I'd probably cut myself on the poor injured things anyway if I did! ), fire them from the cannoņata, drop them down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piņata Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piņata Island), send them to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on these lights that flashlights might have to have performed on them.

So this section of the web page will be significantally more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight. In fact, the two photographs and twelve spectrographic analyses below may very well be "it".





Beam photograph ("Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp; 6076K Pet Lamp") on the test target at 12".




Beam photograph ("Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp {Experimental design}; 6793K Plant Lamp") on the test target at 12".



Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the first bulb, warm-up.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp; 6076K Pet Lamp"; no burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the first bulb, within operating parameters.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp; 6076K Pet Lamp"; no burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the first bulb, within operating parameters.
Spectrometer's response band narrowed to a range of 175nm to 379nm to show UV emission lines.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp; 6076K Pet Lamp"; no burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the second bulb, warm-up.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp; 6076K Pet Lamp"; 90 hours burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the second bulb, within operating parameters.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp; 6076K Pet Lamp"; 90 hours burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the second bulb, within operating parameters.
Spectrometer's response band narrowed to a range of 175nm to 379nm to show UV emission lines.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp; 6076K Pet Lamp"; 90 hours burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the third bulb, warm-up.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp (Experimental design); 6793K Plant Lamp"; no burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the third bulb, within operating parameters.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp (Experimental design); 6793K Plant Lamp"; no burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the third bulb, within operating parameters.
Spectrometer's response band narrowed to a range of 175nm to 379nm to show UV emission lines.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp (Experimental design); 6793K Plant Lamp"; no burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the fourth bulb, warm-up.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp (Experimental design); 6793K Plant Lamp"; 90 hours burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the fourth bulb, within operating parameters.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp (Experimental design); 6793K Plant Lamp"; 90 hours burn-in.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the fourth bulb, within operating parameters.
Spectrometer's response band narrowed to a range of 175nm to 379nm to show UV emission lines.
Labelled "Trichrome Industries Metal Halide UVB Lamp (Experimental design); 6793K Plant Lamp"; 90 hours burn-in.

USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.


ProMetric analysis
Beam cross-sectional analysis.

That darker spot at the left-center in this analysis that queered the test is a defect in the ProMetric's CCD imager that cannot be compensated for.

Image made using the ProMetric System by Radiant Imaging.









TEST NOTES:
Metal halide bulbs (4) plus ballast were furnished by J.H. on 12-21-09, and were received on the afternoon of 12-30-09.

I am not able to determine where these bulbs were made.
A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I wanted to publish it on this web page.

I received no (zero) results when I searched for "Trichrome Industries" online.


UPDATE: 00-00-00



PROS:
Uses a lot less power than incandescent bulbs of similar intensity
Lifetime should be considerably longer than incandescents


CONS:
None that I've yet been able to detect


    MANUFACTURER: Trichrome Industries
    PRODUCT TYPE: Specialty metal halide light bulbs
    LAMP TYPE: HID tube
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: Wide spot w/soft fall-off to extinction
    SWITCH TYPE: N/A
    CASE MATERIAL: Glass
    BEZEL: N/A (HID tube protected by reflectorised glass envelope)
    BATTERY: N/A
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER-RESISTANT: Very light sprinkle-resistance at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
    ACCESSORIES: None
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Star Rating





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