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09-02-2015, 09:57 PM
This is just a little drawing I whipped up to help advertise the serious power lurking inside the Zenith 8-S-563. I drew this completely freehanded in about half an hour. The lighting is two 40 watt mercury vapor lamps.


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09-02-2015, 10:07 PM
(09-02-2015, 09:57 PM)TheUniversalDave1 Wrote:  This is just a little drawing I whipped up to help advertise the serious power lurking inside the Zenith 8-S-563. I drew this completely freehanded in about half an hour. The lighting is two 40 watt mercury vapor lamps.

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09-02-2015, 10:08 PM
I already fanned it away for the picture.
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09-02-2015, 10:26 PM
I actually understood this!!!!
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09-02-2015, 10:29 PM
If you understand it can you explain it to me, please? Because I have no clue what it means.
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09-03-2015, 06:29 AM
Yes Lucy explain!!
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09-03-2015, 01:46 PM
Really?
I'M the smart one??????
Hold H**l, Mark your calenders!

A Mercury vapor lamp is meant to burn much brighter than a standard bulb. Especially high pressure lamps.

Are these new bulbs? These bulbs need a burn in period when first lit. At least an hour and they can be brighter in the beginning. They can burn 10-100 times brighter.
Another thing can be the Ballast having an issue.
This is not set up as a Dim bulb tester right? If that is the case then there may be a short in the DUT but I am pretty sure in a darker room with light walls it is just the bulb.

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09-03-2015, 03:04 PM
This fixture has been working fine for a year and a half.
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09-03-2015, 03:48 PM
The two light globes look like....you know what. Icon_smile
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