Metal Halide

Lighting Pro offers a huge selection of Metal Halide Lamps including Metal Halide Tubular, Bi Pin, Elliptical, Reflector and Double Ended lamps with Australia Wide delivery available.  

Metal halide lamp is special type of arc discharge lamp that works on the arc stream via some iodide salts along with argon gas and mercury vapor pressure at several millimeters with the arc tube temperature of 1000 K

Metal-halide lamps have high luminous efficacy of around 75 - 100 lumens per watt, about twice the efficiency of mercury vapor lights and 3 to 5 times that of incandescent lights, moderately long bulb life and produce an intense white light. As one of the most efficient sources of high CRI white light, metal halides are the fastest growing segment of the lighting industry. They are used for wide area overhead lighting of commercial, industrial, and public spaces, such as parking lots, sports arenas, factories, and retail stores, as well as residential security lighting and automotive headlamps. The lamps consist of a small fused quartz or ceramic arc tube which contains the gases and the arc, enclosed inside a larger glass bulb which has a coating to filter out the ultraviolet light produced. Like other HID lamps, they operate under high pressure and require special fixtures to operate safely, as well as an electrical ballast. They also require a warm-up period of several minutes to reach full light output, so they are not typically used for residential room lighting, which is turned off and on frequently.