Scored a few FREE lamps today at the mall, just happened to be in the right place at the right time. The local mall here uses many colored metal halide lamps (mostly magenta and blue) as accent uplights in their main entrances and atriums. Every time I go to this mall I wonder what brand and wattage lamps they are using...well today I found out. I was walking through the atrium and a service person was on a cherrypicker changing lamps. I waited until he came down, when he did I asked if I could have the spent lamps and he was more then happy to give them to me. He had three blue metal halides that were replaced. All three were Radium 250w HPI-T Blue. Very expensive lamps! Around $100 for one lamp. I took the lamps home in hopes that they still worked even though they were near end of life. Two of the three still fired up but were a dim greenish glow
. The third didnt even fire on a pulse start ballast but the arc tube was completely blackened. These are going in the collection. Pics below, pics were taken at the mall with the blue halide uplights in the background
