| When I said one of the electricians of Carmel hospital, about my visit in Eltam and said him about the US Osram HQI-T 400W/N/SI, that we operated with an autoregulator M59 ballast and a capacitor, without an ignitor, and wanted to say him about the burning position of such MH lamps (All of the probe-start MH lamps in Carmel hospital, operates in the wrong position, wrong equipment, and an unsuitable fixtures [Recessed lowbays {Were the lamp burns horizontally} and floodlighting]), he shocked me by saying me, that they moves from MH lamps to "EL lamps" (Ie. energy saving CFLs).
He also brought into safety, that CFL will save them more energy, where in fact, no energy will be saved at all because: While 400W (Their main wattage for MH lamps that they use), have 85 lm/w average, and a 3-6 years live average, the 45W CFLs that they palns to move them, will have a light output as high as a 40W clear MV lamp (40lm/w), the life of them in the application they want to use them (Lowbays), will be from several days to several months (An almost continuous relamping), and the fixtures will barely light.
It is just sad, to see the mad israeli people, using CFLs in applications they aren't suitable for this, and don't know that this lamp intended to be a retrofit for incandescent lamps only (The CFLs are actually called "Economical Lamp" (נורה חסכנית) in Israel, and in the commercial sector: "EL Lamps" (From the Dulux EL of Osram, despite it isn't the first electronic CFL that made to mass production, as it is the best-selling single model CFL in Israel of all time).
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