Full cutoff high efficiency fixture for a SOX 55W sodium lamp

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Uploaded by on Jul 10, 2011

The final assembly and details of my custom designed and hand built light fixture for a 55W SOX lamp. It seems to work very well and puts out a ton of light, all for only 60W of power! This would be perfect for parking lots and back roads.

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  • im about to order the fulham ballast you use to fire your lamp, and I just wanted to ask if it actually works well long term with the bulb? i found a 55w bulb online, and it's pretty expensive, I don't want to destroy the bulb lol. awesome videos btw.

  • @jetmike747 Go to 1000bulbs to get a 55W for $27, and also the wh5 ballast. I have the same question myself. I have about 115 hours and counting, averaging  5-7 hours of run time per start on this lamp and ballast combination and it still performs as well as ever, and has deposited a very light film of white phosphorous sputter deposits from the electrodes onto the ends of the tube. Nothing significant yet but I don't know how much is normal for that much use. I think its doing just fine.

  • Wow, impressive work there. Very nice! I wish I would see a fixture similiar to this getting installed in my city instead of HPS fixtures. It looks pretty cool.

  • @Skiller444 Haha! Don't we all, but thanks! I'm pretty proud of it. I just found a roll of aluminum roofing flashing at the hardware store the other day, so I will polish up a section to a mirror finish and make an upgraded reflector for it and probably also paint it while I have it apart. I've been taking it to work and running it there. It lights up the whole bay pretty well at a fraction of the cost of running the high output 6ft fluorescents.

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  • @GFVagent007 thanks a lot for the reply. i'll definitely check that site out. these lights are just freakin awesome! they just put a bunch of them out of service near my house and replaced them with HPS.

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