fraggle_a
Member
Well well,
My buddy showed me something kinda intersting.
He has a 300 Mercury Vapour security light on his house. He saw me carrying a bag of salt into the house and we got to talking about the whole saltwater thing.
Well, as soon as I said "Metal Halide" he said that was the lights he uses in his security light.
"Bull ****" says I.
"No really" says he "I ran like 2 Mercury Vapour lights and got sick on the weird orange hue it was putting out. My buddy gave me an old aquarium bulb and I put it in. To his amazement it ran". He tells me.
'Horse pucky' thinks me.....
He goes inside and comes out with a cealed MH bulb from Lowes. Breaks the seal, and puts it into the light fixture and then asks..
"You want to bet some money it will come on?"
'Hell no' says I.
He goes in an to my slight amazement the light comes on and fries my retinas....
He then goes on to explaine to me that Metal Halides are simply Mercury Vapour with 'Halides' added. If the light will start the Mercury, the mercury will start the Halides. He explained it farther. I asked how long the bulbs last thinking that perhaps they might not run as long. He tells me they last for about 5,000 hours. (i think hes over estimating that LOL)
Weird....
My buddy showed me something kinda intersting.
He has a 300 Mercury Vapour security light on his house. He saw me carrying a bag of salt into the house and we got to talking about the whole saltwater thing.
Well, as soon as I said "Metal Halide" he said that was the lights he uses in his security light.
"Bull ****" says I.
"No really" says he "I ran like 2 Mercury Vapour lights and got sick on the weird orange hue it was putting out. My buddy gave me an old aquarium bulb and I put it in. To his amazement it ran". He tells me.
'Horse pucky' thinks me.....
He goes inside and comes out with a cealed MH bulb from Lowes. Breaks the seal, and puts it into the light fixture and then asks..
"You want to bet some money it will come on?"
'Hell no' says I.
He goes in an to my slight amazement the light comes on and fries my retinas....
He then goes on to explaine to me that Metal Halides are simply Mercury Vapour with 'Halides' added. If the light will start the Mercury, the mercury will start the Halides. He explained it farther. I asked how long the bulbs last thinking that perhaps they might not run as long. He tells me they last for about 5,000 hours. (i think hes over estimating that LOL)
Weird....
