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Display/Optic lamp Sharxs HTI
This is a mercury halide lamp made for the entertainment industries for theatre and studio lighting. Manufactured by Osram the lamp is labelled SharXS HTI and rated for 700W. I don’t have the proper ballast for this lamp and I am trying to running it here with an electronic 400W ballast for a short duration. I think it is also supposed to be force air cooled and emits quite a bit of UV according to the spec. Although, with halides, I find this is mostly true at start-up when the mercury predominates. 
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Display/Optic lamp Sharxs HTI

This is a mercury halide lamp made for the entertainment industries for theatre and studio lighting. Manufactured by Osram the lamp is labelled SharXS HTI and rated for 700W. I don’t have the proper ballast for this lamp and I am trying to running it here with an electronic 400W ballast for a short duration. I think it is also supposed to be force air cooled and emits quite a bit of UV according to the spec. Although, with halides, I find this is mostly true at start-up when the mercury predominates.

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Lamp/Fixture Information
Manufacturer:Osram
Model Reference:Sharxs HTI
Lamp
Lamp Type:Halide
Filament/Radiator Type:linear quartz envelope
Service Life:1000h
Burning Position:universal
Electrical
Wattage:700W
Voltage:70V
Current:10A
Optical
Lumen Output:59000 lm
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Album name:Tuopeek / Metal-Halide
Keywords:Lamps
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Date added:05 Sep 2025
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Max   [Sun 07 Sep 2025 at 09:01]
Those compact specialty metal halide lamps pack some serious power in their short arc! More so in those HTIs than in other "standard" HMI/MSR lamps as they are designed for maximum arc luminance at high dissipated power. If I'm not mistaken (I have the /75 7500 K variant of this lamp) the model shown here has a 4-mm arc length and features an interesting dysprosium-iron halide fill chemistry (with hafnium halide if yours is a /60 type) in order to cope with the lamp's extreme power load (about 150 W/mm). In comparison, a standard MSD 700W has an arc power load of ~70 W/mm, less than half that of the present HTI.

Iron halide is not an additive found in usual MH lamps, it is more commonly used in short-wave sources as this is an efficient UV-A radiator, especially in the 358-388 nm range. In modern HTIs (earlier ones used a Cd-Li-Ho halide mix) iron halide is an effective broad-band source of visible light at the very high arc temperature of the lamp, with little optical emission at lower temperature around that arc, which is a very important characteristics for those high-luminance sources which require a small, well defined luminous arc. So, watch out for UVs, its flux is bound to be quite significant with this particular lamp, even at full regime!
Tuopeek   [Sun 07 Sep 2025 at 09:12]
Thanks for the UV-A warning Max and interesting background to this lamp. It certainly runs hot going by how brightly the electrodes are glowing at switch off.
Max   [Sun 07 Sep 2025 at 10:11]
Also, be extremely careful even if you place a UV-block protective (lexan, plexiglass) plate between you and the lamp, that particular HTI has the highest arc brightness (60 kcd/cm²) in its category! Remarkably, this lamp has photometric properties (output, luminance) that nearly match those of the 1600 W XBO xenon short-arc lamp (60 klm, 65 kcd/cm²), so take the necessary precautions with your eyes. An additionally remark from your description, your HTI certainly requires forced air cooling indeed.
Tuopeek   [Sun 07 Sep 2025 at 19:52]
Definitely under running it and only for a short time. No sunburn or arc-eyes detected so far Smile
Max   [Sat 13 Sep 2025 at 06:35]
Good. Better be on the safe side with those lamps, although its always nice seeing the full extent of what they are capable of.

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