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Musco MH1500Z Sports Field Z-Lamp |
American practice for sports lighting is completely different than found in European installations, and it is customary to work with symmetrical reflectors, and high wattage metal halide lamps of the type developed for general lighting applications. These lamps are designed for operation with the arc tube either vertical or horizontal. However when used in a simple symmetrical reflector, the entire lamp and reflector must be aimed downwards, so as to illuminate the required area (whereas in European practice using specialised double ended lamps, the arc tube always remains horizontal, regardless of the fixture orientation).
A metal halide arc tube operates at maximum efficacy when either vertical or horizontal. Tilting the whole lamp, as required in American practice, results in a loss of efficacy up to 20% from the lamp, due to the formation of cold regions on the lower side of the arc tube. Additionally there is a shift in light colour. The invention of Musco overcomes this drawback by providing a lamp in which the arc tube is already tilted away from the axis of the lamp's outer jacket.
An additional advantage is that when the arc tube is in a horizontal position in the reflector, a greater percentage of its output can be directed down onto the field area with a single reflection, and the total amount of downward light is increased. The combination of this lamp with new fixtures employing special optics results in approximately 25% more useful light, and a great reduction in glare and spill light.
| Manufacturer: | Philips Lighting Company, USA. | |
| Lamp Power: | 1500 Watts | |
| Lamp Current: | Amps | |
| Lamp Voltage: | 268 Volts | |
| Cap Type: | E39s/41 | Brass with Vitrite insulator |
| Bulb Finish: | Clear | Borosilicate hard glass |
| Bulb Type: | BT-178 | BT-56 (in eighths/inch) |
| Overall Length: | 391 mm | 15⅜ inches |
| Light Centre Length: | 241 mm | 9½ inches |
| Arc Length: | mm | |
| Electrodes: | Single Coil | |
| Inner / Outer Atmosphere: | Inner: Ar | NaI,Sc,Hg | Outer: Nitrogen |
| Luminous Flux: | 155,000 lm @ 100 hours | 124,000lm average |
| Luminous Efficacy: | 103 lm/W @ 100 hours | 83 lm/W average |
| Colour Temperature & CRI: | CCT: 3700K | CRI: Ra 60 |
| Chromaticity Co-ordinates: | CCx: | CCx: |
| Burning Position: | Arc tube horizontal | |
| Rated Lifetime: | 3,000 Hours (to 50% survival) | |
| Warm-up / Re-strike Time: | 4 minutes to full output | 4 minutes |
| Factory: | Bath, NH | U.S.A. |
| Date of Manufacture: | November 2003 | Date Code L3 |
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