High Pressure Sodium Light Ignitor

This is one of the components of a complete ballast kit but it may be all you need sometimes in order to get the unit to work again.

High pressure sodium light ignitor.

A sodium vapor lamp is a gas discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Sodium bulbs can last up to 20 000 hours. Plusrite 2004 lu150 hps 150w high pressure sodium medium base ansi s55 light bulb. Two varieties of such lamps exist.

Sodium lamps were first produced commercially by philips in holland in 1932. For help with ignitor high pressure sodium 70 100w from ge lighting. The ignitor aids in starting the lamp. There are two kinds of sodium lights.

Typically these lights are used on sides of industrial buildings and in some street lamps. You don t always have to replace the entire ballast sometimes it s just the igniter or possibly the capacitor. The heavy duty transformer or ballast is also long lived if the bulbs are changed out before they burn out. Sunlite 03600 su lu35 med high pressure sodium light bulb 35 watts ed17 med medium base e26 ansi code s55 2250 lumen 16000 life hours clear 2100k 4 2 out of 5 stars 257.

High pressure sodium lights are used for illuminating large outdoor areas. Low pressure lps and high pressure hps these lamps are mostly used for street lighting as well as industrial uses. They emit bright yellow light.