What are the advantages of Halcyon HID lights over conventional halogen primary lights?
HID lighting has several advantages over conventional halogen primary lights: • More light output. Halcyon’s 18 Watt HID light source produces approximately the same lumens at the light source as a 55 Watt halogen bulb at a three to five times the halogen’s efficiency. The 10 Watt HID only produces ~500 lumens, but thanks to its true 6000K color temperature it appears almost as bright as a 55 Watt halogen bulb when in use. The HID lamp’s lumens per watt (LPW) efficacy is roughly six to eight times that of an incandescent lamp. • Whiter light. The color temperature of HID lighting more closely approximates the color temperature of natural daylight than does a halogen system, which appears yellowish in comparison. We use the term “correlated color temperature” to indicate that the light appears as if the discharge lamp is operating at a given color temperature– traditional measurements of color temperature are drawn from the properties of the metal used in the bulb’s filament. Typical c
