I have the opportunity to pick up an old green shade radial wave. However, it is missing the porcelain bulb socket fixture. I have posted two photos of it in...
... That is definitely a high voltage series incandescent head. Unless you plan to run it as such, your best bet is to pick up a modern porcelain mogul base...
Thanks James! The guy who has it just told me that it had a brown porcelain insulator sandwitched between the light head and shade. The insulator held the...
... It will run on whatever current the bulb you screw into it is made for. If you do use an original series socket, you will want to disable the shorting...
Yup I agree, these series incandescents are way cool! I live near LA so I see these oldies but goodies all the time. About 17,000 of them left in the city of...
I happened to come across a very old 100 watt H44 Par 38 mercury vapor floodlight with a black opaque coating on the outside of the reflective coating. It had...
... I happen to have a blacklight setup with an H44 MV spot and H44 ballast, lamp is also admedium and has the woods BL lens. I cant remember where or when I...
Hi Stanley, Don't think there would be any difference between an H44 or an H38 as both are 100 watt merc lamps, and presumably both operate on approx 850 mA at...
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...
http://www.lamptech.co.uk/Spec%20Sheets/Sylvania%20H44.htm Sylvania still makes the equivalent lamp with a medium base... but they can be a little spendy. I...
Philips apparently doesn't make it anymore. It was listed in the June '97 catalog I found but not in the latest catalog I have here, which was from 2004. I...
... 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. ...
Don Klipstein
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Jun 29, 2009 10:08 pm
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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...
That's pretty expensive for a socket. It seemed to me the socket that whoever it was turned up the last time we had discussions about admedium bases was more...
... I have one of those lamps, and I've lit it up before by making a crude socket out of a block of wood. Just take a piece of 2x4, bore a hole about an inch...
... I saw it after I had posted my response. Friends of mine own a machine shop, so I've considered trying to make a proper socket. Would not be impossible to...
I've seen those expensive admedium sockets. Seems ridiculous to pay that for a socket, even though it's an obsolete type. I like the idea of wrapping copper...
Hi, I have an external mounted 400w mercury ballast with 3 identical black wires coming out of it. It was working fine when hooked up to an old GE luminaire...
I hope you know what voltage it's supposed to have. Since there are only three wires, it's probably only a single voltage ballast, but you still need to know...
Hi Brad, I know you posted this awhile ago. I`m just getting back on line. Did you ever get the parts you needed to restore this light? I have some original...
Thanks for the quick response. It`s been awhile since I tried doing anything with it but it was wired to 110 volts when it was in service. So if I`m...
I've never messed with the potted ballasts and have only seen a few over the years. The wires probably were marked originally, usually with numbers, but the...
Doesn't sound right. When it's hooked up correctly you should get 120 across the primary but 240 or so from the lamp lead to common. Forget about the lamp and...
Thanks again for all your help, I`ll keep playing around with it..hopefully I didn`t blow it. It was a neat setup and very reliable until I had to take it...
Hi Gang! Los Angeles have begun the changeout from HPS to LED. Over 500 100w HPS lights in the Northridge/Granada Hills/Resada/Van Nuys area were changed out...
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