Halide Hoarders unite!

[five.five-six]

I’ve started hoarding lamps several years ago. Lots of new but I’m a sucker for “barely used” radium’s. I’ll take a chance on those. I setup a test box with a light meter and sorted them by output. warn ones go in the trash and 90% or better sorted in “matched sets of 3”

Here’s my stock of 400’s

250 radium’s

3 more Newish radium’s and my random other 250’s and a ballast for testing

I’m not pulling the box down but I have a set of 3 galaxy HQI selectawatt ballasts

 

[kfisc]

That's really cool and how weird is it to remember how plentiful those things used to be?
I remember how much fun it was to build my first set of 175's out of a pair of Advance ballasts and other parts from the hardware store. I put the ballasts in a breaker box.

Doooon't drop 'em!

 

[five.five-six]

Somebody buy these before I do!!!!!

Radium 250 Watt 20K Blue Metal Halide Light Bulb - Brand New!!! | eBay

German made 250 watt HQI lamp by Radium. - Must be used with a 250 watt HQI M80 ballast or 250 watt electronic ballast - cannot be used with a probe start 250 watt M58 ballast. - Brings out fluorescence in fish and corals.

www.ebay.com

 

[reefing102]

I don’t have pics but I have 20 250w SPS brand 10k halide bulbs. 2 additonal Hamilton cayman suns, 6 CoralVue spider reflectors for retrofit, 2 spare off brand ballasts, as well as a 2x150w DE with T5s fixture with ballasts.

 

[griss]

Here’s my stash of 175w bulbs.
8 Iwasaki Aquas
6 AquaConnect 11K
10 PlusRite 10K
8 Reeflux 12K

 

[mellotang]

I have a full Case of brand new 250 watt iwasaki 65k

 

[griss]

I have a full Case of brand new 250 watt iwasaki 65k

When I had my 200 running many years ago, I used (3) 250w 6.5K Iwasaki and (2) 400w 20K Radiums. The growth and color of the SPS were amazing.

 

[five.five-six]

When I had my 200 running many years ago, I used (3) 250w 6.5K Iwasaki and (2) 400w 20K Radiums. The growth and color of the SPS were amazing.

I’m looking at those 400W radium’s in the MP. The thing is this, my SPS are already growing faster than I want to deal with. It seems like every month I have to spend 1/2 day cutting them back and then disposing of the clippings. With 400’s I expect it will be worse.