Hello, I'm new! First of all sorry for my bad english
. I have some question about my 35W SOX lamp
; last week I bought from ebay the whole kit for 40€, this included: a Philips 35W SOX-Plus lamp
, a Philips 35W/55W ballast, a Philips SX72 ignitor and the capacitor. My intention was (because i love LPS lamps) to put the lamp inside my bedroom or living room; I known that the lamp emits 4200lm, too much for inside house application and I known that I had to buy a 18W SOX lamp, but the price for this with Ignitor and ballast was too high, also I should have to buy the ballast, the capacitor, the ignitor and the lamp individually.
So my questions are:
1) Is it possible to do something that reduces the emission of my lamp? For example (I'm daydreaming) if I put a 18W ballast on my 35W lamp, what happens? If the lamp starts to work, I would have 4200lm still or less?
2) (This will be the last hope) If I buy a 18W SOX lamp, maybe the SX72 ignitor (that is good for 26W/35W/55W SOX-e/SOX) works without problem, but I have to buy the ballast, because I have a 18W ballast
for fluorescent tube
... however I thing that isn't also good for SOX lamp...
Please help me, because I'm a bit sad and also I had to replace the SOX lamp with a classic bulb
.
I suppose that the only possible solution is to buy a 18W SOX lamp with it SOX ballast... I don't want to spend other money
... I trust you very much, so maybe there could be some solution that I don't know to reduce the emission of my 35W SOX lamp.
Thank you so much.
With regard, Zar.