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Carb-O-Bay series - Datasheet.
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Here is another line of arc lamps, expected to be developed and released when the SilverArc series is going to have a reliable design and an efficient production process.
The Carb-O-Bay lamps will use a different casing, but the same internal chassis. This is also the series that'll allow the use of salt-containing carbon rods by installing a retrofit kit. This kit is basically going to improve the sealing of the internal globe so that almost no fumes can get out.
Note the illustration is a quick representation of what a fixture from that series will roughly look like.
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Mike, here's how a actual carbon-arc highbay looked like.
These were known as "Intensified" arc lamps. But you are right, these were the predecessors of the modern high bays!
But for now I will design 120V and 240V ballasts, since we all have those voltages available, including me. I couldn't test ballasts working at other voltages, unless I use special transformers. And of course I don't to want to ship untested fixtures!
- Size 1: Unknown, they probably will never be produced XD
- Size 2: 5 hours enclosed, 30 minutes open
- Size 3: 10 hours enclosed, 1 hour open
- Size 4: 15 hours enclosed, 1,5 hour open
- Size 4XL: 35 hours enclosed, 3,5 hours open
As of the price, this will have to be calculated as well ^_^' I plan to sell carbon rods by packs of 20, and probably in a sort of "contractor-pack" with like 60 or even 100 carbon rods. The price will depend of the units of sale, the latter depending of the customer needs! If 20 isn't enough, then I'll sell them in bigger packs!
Installation is going to be very simple. The entire relamping process will be tool-free! The rods should be held in place with thumbscrews, and the globe will hold in place with threads.
BULB FREAK: When I am ready to start the manufacturing process I'll see if making 50Hz fixtures is doable. I'll also prepare PDFs with text boxes you can fill to place your order But I still have lots of things to prepare before!
Well, arc lamps used to be relamped every 150 hrs! The earliest ones were open and had to be relamped every 15 to 20 hrs! 35 hrs seems quite short, even for a carbon arc lamp, but I don't aim the same exact applications as the original arc lamps, and definitely not commercial applications!
My other arc lamps series, the SilverArc, is a more general type. Those arc lamps are intended for general lighting service (GLS).