I did a rigging on firing up and making one...I simpy took a regular
medium based ceramic socket and removed the socket shell and put a wire
on the side.....then added a mogul base that came off of a defective
lamp onto a ceramic shell making a Mogul to admedium adaptor....

Hope I made it clear, if not clear enough ill try to provide a pic! I
have 2 lamps that needs those sockets........

-Jace


On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:19 am, Stanley Chiang wrote:
> I found one on-line merchant that sells the admedium socket for $68 a
> piece.
>
> https://www.interlight.biz/light-bulb/SOCKET-ADMEDIUM
>
> Now that's a heck of a lot more expensive than the unusual lamps
> themselves! Must be a very low moving item.
>
> Don't think I'll be getting my H44 Par mercury lamp fired up anytime
> soon.
>
> --- In streetlights-l@yahoogroups.com, Don Klipstein <don@...> wrote:
>>
>> leel@... wrote:
>>
>> > I thought I remembered that there was a version of this lamp offered
>> > with the standard medium base at some point and I managed to find
>> the
>> > evidence in an old Philips catalog from June of 1997. At that time,
>> both
>> > Philips and Osram-Sylvania made this lamp in the medium base
>> version. So
>> > even if you can't find the socket you may be able to find the medium
>> > based PAR 38 somewhere yet, especially if they were still available
>> in
>> > 1997. The admedium socket went scarce long before then.
>>
>> I have what appears to me to be a 1999 "SAG-100" Philips catalog. They
>> had then 100 watt PAR-38 mercury with medium skirt base and admedium
>> skirt
>> base.
>>
>> Notably, the admedium version has then-current ordering code
>> H44GS-100,
>> and a noted "Former code or trade name" of H38-4GS.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I am finding elsewhere that some 100 watt mercury lamps
>> have
>> H38 ANSI code and some have H38/H44 ANSI code.
>>
>> Also, I see a nominally 100 watt one said to be H44 here:
>>
>> http://www.saveonlighting.com/i-sylvania_68843-5290.htm
>>
>> And, it has admedium skirt base!
>>
>> I did try web searching for what is the difference between H38 and
>> H44,
>> or what the H38 and H44 specifications individually are. I have yet to
>> find these. This could require purchasing the relevant ANSI standard
>> from
>> ANSI.
>>
>> - Don Klipstein (don@...)
>>
>
>