Start up of my HID light fixture install with four metal halide and one mercury vapor. 

Ahh that old school lighting and the hum of all of those ballasts! SWEEEEEEET!!!!

Really neat setup! That Mercury Vapor looks like the ones in my Elementary School gym so perhaps that's what kind they were! Usually had a blue/white light when fully warmed up! Though they often cycled at the end of their life before they had new bulbs put in them!

I love the mercury vapors and metal hilades.

Metal halide highbay is very rare here, most of our highbay here is mercury vapor and it's yellow when reached full brightness, metal halide is used for floodlights and gas station lighting, while some purplish mercury vapors are used to be very common here before it got replace to the sodium vapor lamps, many of the outdoor or indoor lighting is the t8 fluorescent lights running on the preheat, the 4foot t8s here is 36w

perhaps get some magnetically ballasted fluorescent fixtures and replace the LED with a few, and maybe try to find a LPS/SOX fixture to put in between the MV fixture and the MH fixture closest to the door

metal halides last longer than cheap leds when bulb burns out you change the bulb when the led fails you have to replace the fixture

Im jealous of that barn.

Neat setup this is what i wanna do eith my workshop in my 100x50 foot barn. Minus ceiling fans. Although i did install ceiling fans for air flow of course. But for my workshop my main ligjts are t12s and two led shop lights. I found 60w t12 bulbs that were 5900 lumens a peice for 8ft fixtures so thats 100 lumen per watt nearly which is amazing for t12. I can deff tell though the led seem a little brighter even though the lumens on paper are less.. i dont like the led shop lights though because i noticed they interfear with radio. But i deff wanna hang mercory vapor halide and hps ligjts in the shop. But on my property as a whole i use two 150w flood hps. Two 150w dusk to dawn two 100w a 70w and three 50w hps. To light up my driveway.. gate.. my other building. And i use three 175 mv to light up my parking spots on a 30ft pole. Ive been messingvwith bulbs for the mv. Clear bulbs have that nice blue green color. But even though the lumens might claim to be the same. Those frosted mercury vapor bulbs seem way brighter. I have two on that 30ft pole and when i had a brand new old stock clear bulb in one and brand new westinghouse frosted in the other. I noticed how drasticly brighter the frosted white bulb seemed. When i turned off the clear bulb fixture it was almost as if it wasnt helping with illumination lol. It must be the CRI of the clear only being like 20.. and the frosted i believe is like 60 for the CRI. Kinda like how HPS cri is only 22 or so. And eveb though it claims say 16k lumens for the 150w.. a white light will seem brighter

I have actually ran North American 400W M59 probe start metal halide lamps on North American 400W H33 mercury vapor ballasts before and the ballasts did not seem to mind the probe start metal halide lamps at all because 400W H33 mercury vapor lamps run at the same arc voltage drop (135V) and operating current (3.25A) as 400W M59 probe start metal halide lamps. Although it has been established that you can clearly run same wattage mercury vapor lamps on North American probe start metal halide ballasts with the exception of 1000W H34 mercury vapor lamps, IT IS possible to do the opposite: running probe start metal halide lamps on same wattage mercury vapor ballasts as well. However, since most mercury vapor ballasts have a lower OCV than same wattage probe start metal halide ballasts, you can wire a European Philips SI51 2 wire parallel ignitor in parallel with the lamp to get a probe start metal halide lamp to reliably start on the low OCV of those mercury vapor ballasts. The reason as to why the European Philips SI51 ignitor is safe to use on probe start metal halide lamps is because it delivers a very low ignition pulse of only 750V-1000V, which is gentle on the starting probe and resistor of probe start metal halide lamps and ensures that the lamps strike an arc on the first try. I also used that same ignitor to reliably run 175W M57 probe start metal halide lamps on a 175W H39 mercury vapor yardblaster as well. Although I have been succesful with these lamp/ballast combinations, I do not recommend using them in public electrical installations where electrical code enforcement is often conducted.

Very nice I collect Hid and fluorescent light fixtures

I’m working on getting some 1940s preheats and some Mercury Vapor HID high bay lights from an abandoned brick plant, there’s also lots of 50s fluorescents and some 60s Westinghouse preheats. I am working on finding a way to do it without stealing even tho it’s abandoned

Heads up, fans are next to go up in this area of the barn shop.

Nice bright!

The stupid led was absolutely destroyed from the powerful mercury vapor , metal halide bulbs 😂

Nice !

Must be a huge power consumption

electric companies change led to earn money there is no reason to phase out hps lamps while they are much cheaper

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