Another day, another lamp lantern...

Here is our biggest SOX lamp, fully lit.! 

Cooking under SOX light is certainly different. 

Another day, another lamp lantern...

Here is our biggest SOX lamp, fully lit.! 

Cooking under SOX light is certainly different. 

We tried lighting the lantern with the ordinary photocell in, but it cycled with the ambient light making it switch off after a few minutes. So we substituted the photocell for a dummy link. 

Today we've lit our Iwasaki blue MH lamp. 

Here it is at full brightness. 

We've chosen HPS as today's 'Lamp of the Day'

So here is our 400W Philips Master SON-T PIA Plus lamp, doing a good impression of a space heater.! 

Mercury is the subject of today's 'Lamp of the Day'  

So here is our 250W MA/V lamp fully warmed up.  

Mercury is the subject of today's 'Lamp of the Day'  

So here is our 250W MA/V lamp fully warmed up.  

These lamps have such a wonderful colour, I can only imagine a whole street lit by them  

We got an HPS reflector lamp today, unfortunately the arc tube was knocked a bit off centre, but it still works okay.

So here is today's offering for 'Lamp of the Day'  

This is what was needed in the lamp's construction to keep the arc tube upright.!  

Another lantern today,

Our Beta 5 AKA Johnny. 

Back to the lamps for today, and it's the turn of the French.

Featured is our French 250W high pressure mercury lamp.

Another lantern for today's offering.

I bought a Gamma 6 lantern on eBay, and from what I can tell it's one of the last versions made.

Here it is lighting up our kitchen.  

Another lantern for today's offering.

I bought a Gamma 6 lantern on eBay, and from what I can tell it's one of the last versions made.

Here it is lighting up our kitchen.  

It's going to make an interesting floor lamp in the corner of the living room  

It's going to make an interesting floor lamp in the corner of the living room  

All we need to get is a 4 1/2 foot length of 3" pipe mounted on a base plate and then we can put the lantern on the top.  

Another lantern for today's offering.

I bought a Gamma 6 lantern on eBay, and from what I can tell it's one of the last versions made.

Here it is lighting up our kitchen.  

I found out that baked beans are one of the few foods that don't change colour under SOX light. 

We've got a Sylvania 80W MBF/U lamp today, it's nicely complimenting the Gamma 6 in the corner of the living room.

Here it is fully warmed up.  

We've got a Sylvania 80W MBF/U lamp today, it's nicely complimenting the Gamma 6 in the corner of the living room.

Here it is fully warmed up.  

Another picture with the flash disabled (I'd forgotten it was on  )