Westinghouse Beauty-Lite Mercury H33GL-400/R
This Westinghouse "Beauty-Lite" lamp, launched in the 1970s, is representative of a type that was optimised for its colour rendering properties.   In its early years, was a popular low cost alternative to the then still new metal halide lamps. But as the price of metal halide systems fell, this lamp also diminished in popularity and was de-listed in the mid 1980s.

The main phosphor is europium activated yttrium phosphate vanadate, which is clearly identifiable by its characteristic peaks in the spectrum around 620 and 700nm. It is augmented by a second phosphor emitting in the broad blue region of the spectrum and peaking around 440nm. This is made visible in a zoomed in view of just the lower intensities of the spectral power distribution.

The blue emission is responsible for increasing the strength of the otherwise rather weak mercury blue lines, and its function is to decrease the relative strength of the mercury green line, and give this lamp a more natural hue but without absorbing that line, thus causing minimal efficacy loss. The material is unknown but is most likely strontium chloroapatite.

The red ratio of this lamp is 12.5%, marginally higher than the 11% that is a typical for /DX lamps employing just the standard yttrium vanadate. Colour temperature is also reduced slightly to 3850K. Colour rendering index remains substantially unchanged. However there is a very dramatic drop in the CCy co-ordinate to just 0.373, exceptionally low for a mercury lamp. This puts its colour point well below the blackbody locus and imparts a slight rose-coloured hue to the light. This causes better rendition of skin colour tones and is perhaps the main reason for the success of this lamp indoors.
Manufacturer: Westinghouse Electric Company
Lamp Power: 400 Watts
Lamp Current: 3.2 Amps
Lamp Voltage: 140 Volts
Cap Type: E39s/41 (Mogul) Brass with Vitrite Insulator
Bulb Finish: Yellow external lacquer Leaded borosilicate
Bulb Type: BT-122 BT-37 (in eighths / inch)
Overall Length: 292 mm 11.5 inches
Light Centre Length: 178 mm 7 inches
Arc Length:
Electrodes: Backwound tungsten Trimetallic oxide emitter
Inner / Outer Atmosphere: Inner: Ar | Hg Outer: Nitrogen
Luminous Flux: 20,000 lm @ 100 hours
Luminous Efficacy: 50.0 lm/W @ 100 hours
Colour Temperature & CRI: CCT: 3850K CRI: Ra 43
Chromaticity Co-ordinates: CCx: 0.385 CCy: 0.373
Burning Position: Universal
Rated Lifetime: 24,000 hours Rated to 50% survival
Warm-up / Re-strike Time: 5 minutes 5 minutes
Factory: Bath, N.H. U.S.A.
Date of Manufacture: May 1982
Original / Present Value:
References: 1) Spectral measurement of lamp