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Niagara Falls Lights! Here are the lights the light up Niagara Falls nightly! Each fixture is 4kW Xenon short arc (the scary lamps) and there are 21 of them, talk about a lot of wattage! Keywords: Misc_Fixtures

Niagara Falls Lights!

Here are the lights the light up Niagara Falls nightly! Each fixture is 4kW Xenon short arc (the scary lamps) and there are 21 of them, talk about a lot of wattage!

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Album name:gailgrove / Outdoor Lighting
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Date added:Mar 13, 2012
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streetlight98   [Mar 13, 2012 at 03:32 AM]
Why are these scarey lamps?
gailgrove   [Mar 13, 2012 at 03:34 AM]
See this video, that is exactly why, they explode very easily and for no reason!
joe_347V   [Mar 13, 2012 at 05:27 AM]
streetlight98   [Mar 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM]
Oh. I see. Shocked
gailgrove   [Mar 13, 2012 at 03:14 PM]
Yeah, these are about the only lamps I wouldn't want to collect.
MercuryVapor175   [Mar 13, 2012 at 08:39 PM]
I wonder what would happen if you dropped a 18kw HMI lamp... Confused
rlshieldjr   [Mar 13, 2012 at 10:15 PM]
I was there as a kid in the 60s, prolly carbon arcs back then, with colored filters/lenses.
gailgrove   [Mar 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM]
Yeah from what I've read they were carbon arc until the 90s. These lights still use coloured lenses and are manually controlled from what I understand.
ZarlogH46   [Mar 20, 2017 at 03:06 AM]
Do these run dusk to dawn? Also, why do they use short arc lamps instead of metal halide lamps? 1000w or 1500w should work just fine in this application.
joe_347V   [Mar 20, 2017 at 05:00 AM]
I'm not sure why they use short arcs, maybe they wanted the brilliant whites from them. I believe the lights are switched off at midnight or 1AM.

Anyway the last time I was there, which was last weekend I noticed that they replaced all the short arcs with high power LED floods, similar to what's used in stage lighting.

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