Title: Lamps
1Lamps
2- Choose work you
- love and you will never have to work a day in
your life Confucius
3Getting Along
4Efficacy
- Lumens per watt of a light source
- The higher the lumen efficacy, the more efficient
the source is at producing light
5Color RenderingIndex (CRI)
- The Color Rendering Index (CRI) is a relative
measure of the shift in surface color of an
object when lit by a particular lamp, compared
with how the object would appear under a
reference light source of similar color
temperature. The higher the CRI of the light
source, the "truer" it renders color
6Lamp Life
- A statistical probability
- Based on
- A representative sample of lights
- Typical conditions
- Rated in hours
- Time elapsed when 50 remain burning
- Example
- If a lamp had a rating of 1000 hours
- After 1000 hours half of the sample of lamps have
burned out while the other half remains
operational
7Lamp Lumen Depreciation (LLD)
- Light output declines with time
- This loss of light is called Lumen Depreciation
8Factors that affect Lamp Operation
- Strike
- Ambient Temperatures
- Voltage Interruptions
- Wattage/Voltage Changes
- Dimming
- Increased Watts or Volts
- Burning Position
9Incandescent
- Components
- Tungsten filament
- Acts as a resistor
- In parallel changes amps by impedance
- inductive reactance and conductor resistance
- Glass Globe w/ inert gasses
- Argon or krypton w/ small amounts of nitrogen
- Add bromine or iodine with a quartz covering
Tungsten Halogen lamp - Lamp base
10Types of Incandescent
- General Service or Extend Life
- Projector (PAR)
- Parabolic reflectors
- Reflectors (R)
- Elliptical Reflectors (ER)
- Tungsten Halogen
11Common Shapes w/ Designations
12Common Bases
13Remember Who We Are
14Feel like an Imposter!
15Getting Along
16Performance
- Not affected by temperatures
- Voltage sensitive
- Strike sensitive - Dimming
- Excellent color rendering (CRI)
- Lumen depreciation
- - on average, lamps retain 87 of their lumens
after 70 rated life - Low Rated Life
- Efficacy 10 30 Lumens per watt
17If there was something
18Fluorescent
- Components
- Mercury arc discharge
- Cathodes
- Argon gas w/ mercury
- Phosphor coating on tube
- Ultraviolet light created by the mercury arc
excites the phosphor coating and creates visible
light - Mixtures of different phosphors give varying
colors - Requires a ballast
- limit and regulate current flow
19Ballast
20Ballast
21Ballast Starter
22Ballast
23Ballast
- The basic ballast is nothing more than a current
limiting device. For 50 and 60 Hz applications,
the most common current limiting device is an
inductor - Magnetic
- Electronic
24Types of Fluorescents
- Shapes
- Tubular (T)
- U Shaped (U)
- Circline (C)
- Types
- Preheat
- Few second delay - Bi pin base
- Instant Start
- Single pin base
- Rapid Start
- Slight delay bi pin
- High and Very High Output (increased arc) (HO,
VHO) - Recessed base 800 mA to 1500 mA more light,
less efficacy
- Note
- Residential 120V
- Commercial 277V
25GenericDesignations
Warning Be sure to check w/ manufacturer
- F20 fluorescent 20 watts (U, C)
- F42 Fluorescent 42 long (instant start
slimline) - T8 tubular 8/8 1inch diameter, RS Rapid
Start - WW warm white (cw, wwx, etc.)
26GenericDesignations
The "T" in lamp nomenclature designates that the
lamp is tubular shaped. The number following the
"T" usually represents the diameter of the lamp
in eighths of an inch.
27New DOE Standards Effective July 14, 2012
Lamp Type Watts Color Temperature Min. Lumens/Watt
4-foot (T5) miniature bi-pin gt26W lt4500K gt4500K and lt7000K 86.0 81.0
Prior to July 14, 2012 DOE Standards
Lamp Type Watts Min. CRI Min. Lumens/Watt
4-foot medium bi-pin gt35W 69 45 75.0 75.0
28Performance
- Temperature sensitive
- Strike sensitive (3hrs)
- Poor color rendering
- Long rated life (up to 24,000)
- Lumen depreciation
- - on average, lamps retain 87 of their lumens
after 40 rated life eventually get dimmer
dimmer - Good Efficacy 60 100 lumens per watt
- Poor beam control
29Residential Usage
Remember strike and ambient temperatures!
30High Intensity Discharge (HID) Lamps
- Three distinct categories
- Mercury
- Metal Halide
- High Pressure Sodium
- Characteristics
- High Efficacy
- Long Life
- High Lamp Lumen Depreciation
- Require ballasts
- Low CRI
31Mercury HID
- Mercury arcs
- Starting time
- 3-5 minutes
- Green-blue light
- Considerable lamp decay
- Eventually dim out
- After 24,000 50
- Long Life
- Burning position any
- Landscaping uses
32Metal Halide HID
- Mixtures
- Mercury, sodium,
thallium, scandium, etc. - Starting time
- The greatest up to 5 minutes
- Bright greenish white
- Decay of metals
- Decline of lumens very gradual
- Burning position is critical
- Sports lighting, commercial
33Do you every feel small
34High/Low Pressure Sodium HID
- Sodium arc
- Starting time
- 3-5 minutes
- Yellow golden white
- Very low CRI
- Very high efficacy
- Up to 140 lumens/watt for HP
- Up to 200 lumens/watt for LP
- Burning position any
- Sport lighting, garages
35Sodium HID
Diagram of a high pressure sodium lamp
36Lamp Comparison - Color
37Lamp Comparisons Life/Cost
38Lamp Comparison
Lamp Life
Efficacy
efficacy the power to produce an effect
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