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Display/Optic lamp Sharxs HTI
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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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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!