HID LIGHTING

Discharge lamps generate light by sending an electrical discharge through an ionised gas or metal vapour.

Depending on the gas with which a lamp is filled, it either radiates visible light directly or converts UV radiation to light through interaction with a fluorescent coating on the inside surface of the glass enclosure.

The operating pressure inside a discharge lamp is either low (low pressure discharge lamps know as SOX) or high (high-pressure discharge lamps known as SON).

Examples include:

- Tubular

- Elliptical

- Internal ignitor lamps (50w & 70w)

- Sox

- Sox E