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GE BT37 400W merc! I know what you're thinking. "Wow this thing must be OLD!" Nope, it's a modern lamp! It's marked (Hg) so it's from the past 10 years. Something must be loose inside there wearing off the phosphors. I assume this still works but maybe not. Only one way to find out. :-D I'll bring the M-400 in the house and put a cord on it to test these 400W lamps when I get the chance. Keywords: Lamps

GE BT37 400W merc!

I know what you're thinking. "Wow this thing must be OLD!" Nope, it's a modern lamp! It's marked (Hg) so it's from the past 10 years. Something must be loose inside there wearing off the phosphors. I assume this still works but maybe not. Only one way to find out. :-D I'll bring the M-400 in the house and put a cord on it to test these 400W lamps when I get the chance.

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Album name:Mike / My Lamps
Keywords:Lamps
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Date added:Aug 05, 2014
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joe_347V   [Aug 05, 2014 at 03:16 AM]
Ahh, I heard that GE still kept making BT mercury bulbs as a special order even years after they switched to ED. The way that the phosphor is scratched out on the crown of the bulb make it's look like a vintage Bonusline cleartop. Razz
streetlight98   [Aug 05, 2014 at 03:37 AM]
Yeah at first i thought it was a sloppy cleartop lamp but nope, it's supposed to be fully coated. Laughing Yeah Joe M said that for some reason the BT shape was always available in the 400W lamps. They offered the BT28 shape for a while but after 1965-ish, they never made a single BT 25 ever again. I wonder why the manufacturers were hatin' on the BT25s so badly. Westinghouse was the only one who was BT all the way till the end. Cool
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Jan 25, 2015 at 01:59 AM]
Did you ever try this, and if so does it work/ how bright is it?
streetlight98   [Jan 25, 2015 at 02:11 AM]
It works. I only lit it briefly to test it so I don't know how bright it is, but it only has a little blackening on the ends so probably almost new.
gmercury2000   [Aug 02, 2015 at 03:22 AM]
Ah if only they were still made with the same quality as 60 years ago.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Aug 02, 2015 at 06:42 AM]
I wonder how the startup looks?
streetlight98   [Aug 02, 2015 at 03:46 PM]
I had tested this on the M-400 a while back. It does work fine and the arc tube is mostly clear. Through a refractor it sorta looks like a cleartop with some /DX rays and some clear MV rays hitting the refractor in certain spots. Looking at the bare lamp from far away, it just gives the effect of a very light /DX coating. The lamp starts pinkish but also purple because it's both coated and uncoated lol.
gmercury2000   [Aug 02, 2015 at 03:55 PM]
When we were using GE MV lamps, they had very thin coatings. They don't stay bright very long. We would get about a year and they looked so dim you would think wow that lamp has to be 10 years old. I'm so glad we went to Eye and Sylvania.
streetlight98   [Aug 02, 2015 at 09:27 PM]
Ah I never knew that about the GE mercs. I knew they had cycling issues and would randomly die after a couple months but didn't know they dimmed faster than other brands. Wow. Are their HPS lamps still decent or are they bad too?
gmercury2000   [Aug 02, 2015 at 09:40 PM]
Yeah, their mv and mh lamps are by far the crappiest lamps on the market. The hps lamps are decent.

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