Phosphor coated bulbs offer a better color rendering index than either high or low pressure sodium lamps.
Low pressure mercury lamp pdf.
Rather than a cold spot the lamp s amalgam spot on pellet regulates mercury vapor pressure during operation and yields up to three times the uvc output of a standard low pressure mercury lamp of the same length.
Conventional low pressure and amalgam lamps are significantly more energy efficient than medium pressure lamps.
They produce light when an electric current passes between two electrodes also called cathodes in a tube filled with low pressure mercury vapor and inert gases.
These early low pressure lamps used a lot of mercury today s lamps use a tiny amount of mercury.
Amalgam lamps use a mercury amalgam mix to control mercury vapor pressure.
A fluorescent lamp tube is filled with a gas containing low pressure mercury vapor and argon xenon neon or krypton.
Low pressure and high pressure low pressure sodium lamps are highly efficient electrical light sources but their yellow light restricts applications to outdoor lighting such as street lamps where they are widely used.
In addition to the mercury the tube is filled with argon gas at low pressure.
The pressure inside the lamp is around 0 3 of atmospheric pressure.
It needs to be vaporized and ionized before the lamp can produce its full light output.
This coating covers more than 70 of the diameter of the lighted length of the lamp.
Some key differences between lamps.
New high power amalgam lamps are significantly more powerful than low pressure lamps.
High pressure mercury lamps kolorlux standard 50w 80w 125w 250w and 400w kolorlux deluxe 50w 80w 125w 250w and 400w data sheet product information kolorlux mercury vapor lamps are often used due to their relative efficiency.
The inner surface of the lamp is coated with a fluorescent and often slightly phosphorescent coating made of varying blends of metallic and rare earth.
Right around 1900 the mercury arc rectifier was developed this luminous device was very important for power conversion.
Two varieties of such lamps exist.
Nyc subways were still using original mercury arc rectifiers to convert ac to dc power up until the end of the 20th century.
The aperture phosphor coated lamps that jelight company produces employ the same basic design as the double bore low pressure mercury vapor lamps with the exception of a special phosphor coating.
The mercury in the tube is a liquid at normal temperatures.
The electric current excites the mercury vapor in the tube generating radiant energy primarily in the ultraviolet uv range.
To facilitate starting of the lamp a third electrode is mounted near one of the main electrodes and connected through a resistor to the other main electrode.
A sodium vapor lamp is a gas discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm.
