Re: Lamp that is pink at startup « Reply #1 on: October 01, 2017, 10:13:02 AM » Author: dor123
Mostly mercury vapor lamp with a color correcting phosphor. When the lamp turned on, most of its emission, is at the short wave UV, so the majority of the visible emission, comes from the color correcting phosphor, which is red colored, which is why the lamp is reddish pink at start up.
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	Re: Lamp that is pink at startup « Reply #3 on: October 01, 2017, 01:50:19 PM » Author: dor123
Low pressure sodium lamp is also much larger and longer than mercury vapor lamp, and usually burned horizontally, and only rarely base-up, and takes a lot of mins to warm up. I think micole66, refers to mercury vapor lamp with color correcting red phosphor, during start up.
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