S.

Attribute Mercury Vapour Low Pressure High Pressure Sodium Metal Halide
No Sodium
1 Invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt Arthur H Compton Developed by General Charles Proteus
in 1901 in 1920 Electric in Steinmetz in 1912
Shenectady, New
York in the Year 1964
2 Lamp Life in Hrs 24000 18000 20000 to 24000 10000 to 20000
3 Lumens per Watt 30 to 65 80 to 190 80 to 140 65 to 115
4 Warmup Time 3 to 7 minutes 5 to 10 minutes 2 to 4 minutes 1 to 15 minutes
Restriking Time High, 4 to 6 mins Immediate Low, 1 minute Can be from 8 to 15
minutes
5 Initial Arcing Argon Argon + Neon Xenon Argon
6 Main Discharge Mercury Sodium Metal Sodium Metal + Mercury + Metal
Mediums Mercury Halides
7 Pressure inside Arc Around 0.7 Pascals Around 1 atmosphere
Tube
8 Arc Tube Material Fused Quartz Borosilicate Ceramic Fused Quartz or
Ceramic
9 Outer Envelope Borosilicate Borosilicate Borate glass Borosilicate
Material
10 Electrode Material Alloy of Tungsten Tungsten Pure Tungsten Alloy of Tungsten
11 Starting Electrode Present in probe Present in probe Not Present due to Present in probe start
start models start models narrow arc tube models
12 Phosphor Coating Present No coating No coating No coating
13 Colour of Light Bluish White Yellow to Orange Golden to White White
589.3 nm
14 Colour Rendering 45 to 50 Poor, 44 20 to 22 60 to 90
Index
15 Energy Conversion Very Efficient 75% heat and 25%
light

Lamps can be Probe start type or Pulse start type and Cold Cathode or Hot Cathode type