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| Filename: | D_MHQ_Philips_HPITD10000.jpg |
| Album name: | James / Metal Halide |
| Manufacturer: | Philips |
| Model: | HPI/TD 10,000W |
| Power Consumption: | 10,000W |
| Overall Width / Diameter: | 46mm |
| Overall Length: | 743mm |
| Cap Type: | Cables |
| Light Colour Temp: | 3600K |
| Lumen Output: | 1 Megalumen :-) |
| Burn Position : | Horizontal |
| Lifespan: | Expensively short! |
| Comments: | Monstrously sized 10kW HPI metal halide lamp! This was developed in the 1970s to facilitate colour television broadcasts from sports arenas, and was used in Britain at Liverpool and Everton football stadia. Within a few years it was obsolete though, due to improved sensitivity of the newer Plumbicon TV camera tubes, and ordinary 2kW metal halide lamps were then sufficiently powerful. Spectators must have had a dazzling display years ago when so much more light used to be necessary for the early TV cameras! |
| Date / Code: | 1971 October |
| Country Of Origin: | Netherlands |
| Filesize: | 43 KiB |
| Date added: | Jun 14, 2014 |
| Dimensions: | 886 x 591 pixels |
| Displayed: | 84 times |
| URL: | https://allthingslighting.co.uk/atl/displayimage.php?pid=18421 |
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Imagine what the ballast must look like!!
 
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Thanks for sharing James, nice bit of TV history, remember the 70s well.
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Thats an impressive size for a halide, and then theres the 12,000watt ones, but for the rest of us on here, (James will know of this lamp already), Osram made an 18,000watt Metallogen HMI lamp used for TV and film studios. This ran with an arc voltage of 225volt @ 89amp, producing a silly 1,600,000 lumens!!!
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Would be interesting to power up a lamp of this kind of power outside, can just see local people calling the police thinking there was some kind of UFO landing!
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What a monster of a lamp! I megalumen! That would really have been a blinding game of footy!
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