Hi there

Todays find is gear to run 150W HPS/Metal Halide lamp

It came from a beach in Croatia (this lamp posts are everywhere here, sadly most of them are all LED now (or Metal Halide, cant realy distinguish)

Here are pictures: https://imgur.com/a/ZQuaMr9

I dont know how the lamp post fell, but the whole post was fine (nothing band, only couple broken plastics

I would take it as a whole (cuz its realy beautiful fixture) if I knew how to bring this 400km away to Slovenia and where to stick it at home

Looking at this it seams the lamp was meant to run bottom side up which I always thought shortens LPS/HPS lamps life

Igniter doesnt look damaged, just the capacitor and sadly ballast look damaged

But according to my inspection only mehanical damage, it seams electricaly this looks fine (although ground seam to be hanging from mid air), so now I have to figure out how to repair mehanical damage (would realy like to save the ballast since new one is 50€)

So now I just need to find 150W HPS lamp to test, will drive to bosnia and get one (if I figure out in time (I am here in Primošten for 2weeks and I want to visit Bosnia again, so getting a lamp seams a good reason to drive 200KM and visit, its closer then if I go from Slovenia) (Ljubljana - Bosnia (Bihać) 3 hours, Primošten - Bosnia (Posušje) 2hours), where near Posušje area they sell some)

PS: I have 2 choices of lamps in this category of power it seams

Tubular shape like this: https://www.multi-lite.com/en/nav-t-150w-super-4y-e40-osram/item-1-21787.html

Or more egg shape like this: https://www.multi-lite.com/en/item-1-21764.html

Any recomendations? I want it to last and be orange in color, the more orange the better



PS: this was totaly unexpected, I already have 250W flodlight, never expectrd to get another one

Although, I would prefer it to be LPS/SOX, I wonder why those dont just fail from the sky into my hands like HPS/SON do