Lamp Specification Catalog
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SATCO lamp specification catalog New York • Florida • Texas • California • Washington • Puerto Rico SATCO Corporate Headquarters, Brentwood, NY Product Reference Guide – We are pleased to present this new resource tool. Within each of the product categories presented in this guide, we have compiled one of the industries most comprehensive lamp offerings from one source! As you explore each section you will notice numerous footnotes, application suggestions and other valuable information to help you select the correct lamp or ballast. Additionally, we have provided some brief educational materials in the beginning of each product category. Here you will be given a fundamental technical overview on each product group and how they function. Satco has established a vast distribution network that affords us the unique ability to have the products you want and need – in stock 1 and ready to ship from one of our state of the art distribution facilities, totaling nearly one million square feet! 2 5 Locations – 4 3 Brentwood, New York 6 1 (Corporate Headquarters) 2 Seattle, Washington 3 San Francisco, California 4 Dallas, Texas 5 Miami, Florida 6 Puerto Rico the The Complete Satco Product Line advantage The Lamp Specification Catalog Six fully inventoried • A technical guide to our lamp and ballast products distribution centers Each Satco facility features the latest warehouse management systems ensuring that each order is addressed in a timely and efficient manner. Comprehensive product selection, Lighting we have what you need. Components Catalog Our unique product offering positions Featuring: us as a “One Stop Shop” vendor. • Hardware Satco has compiled a variety of • Canopies and Glassware products through various industry • Sockets, Switches, relationships which makes us the and Cords primary choice for selection and service. NUVO Products produced to the Lighting Catalog highest industry standards Featuring: Quality products – An adage we’ve • Decorative built our company by. Every item we Fixture Collections sell has been designed, produced • Outdoor Lighting and tested to meet or exceed industry benchmarks for quality and testing. • Track Lighting Quality assurance is controlled on all • Energy Star Fixtures levels from production to shipping. Innovative technology Satco owns numerous patents on lamp and lighting technology. As a leader we have introduced many new concepts that have been embraced by the lighting community. 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If you can’t FAX (305) 623-0286 FAX (510) 487-8955 FAX (787) 757-3540 locate an item you are looking for, just ask – chances are we have it! www.satco.com Lamps Glossary at a glance of terms Incandescent Lamps Ampere • Low initial cost A unit of measurement which expresses the rate of flow of • Low fixture cost electricity. • Simple installation Average Rated Life • Inexpensive to dim An average rating, in hours indicating when half of a large • All-weather operation group of lamps have failed, when operated at rated lamp • High CRI voltage and current. Ballast Tungsten Halogen A device used with a discharge lamp to obtain the • Whiter light than incandescent necessary voltage for starting and operating. • Excellent lumen maintenance Center Beam Candlepower (CBCP) • Longer life than incandescent The intensity of light produced at the • More efficient than incandescent center of a reflector lamp, expressed in candelas. Color Rendering Index (CRI) Compact Fluorescent Lamps The measure of a light source to render color correctly. • Uses up to 75% less energy Correlated color temperature (CCT) RI) • Longer life than incandescent Correlated color temperature (CCT) is the measure used • Produces less heat to describe the relative color appearance of a white light • Protect the Environment. source. CCT indicates whether a light source appears more yellow/gold/orange or more blue, in terms of the range of available shades of “white.” CCT is given in kelvins (unit of Fluorescent Lamps absolute temperature) • High efficacy • Very good color Lamp • Wide range of colors A manufactured light source., the three main categories are: incandescent, Fluorescent and HID (high intensity • Wide range of wattages discharge). • Good lumen maintenance • Long life Light Radiant energy that is capable of producing a High Intensity Discharge visual light. Lamps Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) • High efficacy Are based on inorganic (non-carbon based) materials. • All-temperature operation An LED is a semi-conducting device that produces light • Extensive range of wattages when an electrical current flows through it. LEDs were first developed in the 1960s but were used only in indicator • Commercial lighting applications until recently. Luminous Flux LED (Light Emitting Diode) Flux is the energy per unit that is radiated from a source Lamps over visible wavelengths. It is commonly given for a lamp • Uses up to 80% less energy based on laboratory testing during manufacturing. For • Long life – up to 50,000 hrscolors instance, the Luminous Flux for a 100W incandescent lamp • No IR or UV is approximately 1700 lm. • Mercury Free Maximum Overall Length (MOL) The total length of a lamp from the top of bulb to the Miniatures & Sealed Beams bottom of the base. • Specific bulb size, base, volts Power Factor • Aircraft, Automotive, Marine A measure of the effectiveness with which a device • Emergency, Medical, Entertainment converts volt-amperes to watts. Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) Ballasts The rating which expresses the ability of a ballast not to • For T5, T8, T12, and CFL affect the frequency. • Program Start, Instant Start Voltage • Dedicated and Universal Voltage The measurement of electrical potential expressed in volts (V). Incandescent Incandescent Basics Bulb Shapes The size and shape of a lamp’s bulb are designated by a letter(s) and a number. The letter speci- fies the shape of the bulb and the number indicates the maximum diameter in 1/8-inch increments. The basic design of the incandescent THE Example: A G40 is a globe shape lamp has not changed much since the GLASS BULB which is 5 inches in diameter. The filament inside an late 1800s, when Thomas Alva Edison incandescent lamp must be protected so that oxygen successfully produced the first does not reach it and cause it operational electric light bulb. to evaporate on contact. Most incandescent lamps are either These are the must-know vacuum-sealed or gas-filled. It A F was discovered in the early 1900s fundamental facts about that the introduction of gas incandescent lamps and inside the bulb, or envelope, created a pressure against the the alternative filament. This pressure allowed the filament to G PAR choices that are burn hotter and last available today. longer. Most gas-filled THE FILAMENT incandescent lamps today use a mixture Incandescent lamp filaments are of argon and made of tungsten. Tungsten is nitrogen gases. a metal that can operate at PS R very high temperatures without evaporating too quickly and resulting in early lamp failure. Incandescent filaments only convert about 10 percent of the energy used into S T visible light, so it is neces- sary touse a material that can withstand extremely high emperatures. Most lamps use B CA a coiled filament design, which has been found to be stronger and deliver better BR HX performance. HOW IT WORKS Just as a piece of metal being blacksmithed or the molten glass THE BASE at the end of a blower’s rod heats Screw-type bases used on incandescent to a brilliant glow, so does the lamps consist of three components: the filament of an incandescent lamp. threaded screw section, the glass insula- The difference is that electricity is tion ring and the contact disc. The lead used to heat the filament instead wires which exit the glass bulb of the lamp of fire. This phenomenon is known are attached to the base at two points. as incandescence. One wire is soldered to the bottom of the contact disc and the other to the top edge of the screw section. The glass ring acts as an insulation barrier between the Base Types two points. This assembly completes the circuit and the lamp is electrified once the base is screwed into a socket and the contact disc touches the center point of the socket. Medium Medium Mogul Int. Cand. S.C. Bay. D.C. Bay. The base itself has nothing to do with the E26 Skirted E40 E17 E12 seal of the bulb; it is a separate part of the lamp that is attached with cement. Typically, bases are made from alumi- num or brass. Brass bases tend to per- form best due to their compatibility with Mog. End Screw Terminal S14S Med.