Low Pressure Sodium Lamps Disadvantages

A sodium vapor lamp is a gas discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm.

Low pressure sodium lamps disadvantages.

Fluorescent bulbs up types of lighting. More buying choices 36 95 6 new offers lithonia lighting f70sl 120 m6 70w high pressure sodium micro floodlight with bulb bronze. Two varieties of such lamps exist. Sodium lamps were first produced commercially by philips in holland in 1932.

Philips 234047 18 watt t15 sox e18 low pressure sodium hid light bulb. Types of lighting. Low pressure sodium lamp is a kind of low pressure sodium vapor discharge tube inner tube with special anti sodium glass blown and can radiate 5890a 5896a sodium line can be used as a monochromatic light source optical polarimeter refractometer polarization instrument in. Lps light provides essentially no color rendition so is inappropriate for any use where 1 color perception is important and 2 lps will be the only light source illuminating the area.

4 2 out of 5 stars 20. Low pressure and high pressure low pressure sodium lamps are highly efficient electrical light sources but their yellow light restricts applications to outdoor lighting such as street lamps where they are widely used. There are two kinds of sodium lights.