The tube contains a few milligrams of mercury and around 25 50 torr of pure argon as a buffer gas to carry the discharge while the lamp warms up producing.
High pressure mercury vapour lamp construction and working.
A mercury vapor lamp is a gas discharge lamp that uses an electric arc through vaporized mercury to produce light the arc discharge is generally confined to a small fused quartz arc tube mounted within a larger borosilicate glass bulb.
When high voltage is applied we can observe that the neon gas which was originally in pink color will change into orange color by heating.
A low pressure sodium vapor lamp or lpsv lamp is termed as a miscellaneous discharge lamp as it possesses some characteristics of high intensity discharge hid lamps as well as it resembles fluorescent lamps in other areas.
Basically an lpsv lamp is a gas discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light.
It uses an arc through vaporized mercury in a high pressure tube to create very bright light directly from it s own arc.
The outer bulb may be clear or coated with a phosphor.
Again transition of the electrons requires least amount of input energy from a colliding electron.
The extensive use of the mercury vapor lamp depends entirely upon the versatility of the mercury vapor as regards pressure temperature voltage and other characteristics each change resulting in a lamp of different spectral quality and efficiency.
A sodium vapor lamp is a gas discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm.
It consists of a discharge envelope enclosed in an outer bulb of.
Working of mercury vapor lamp the mercury vapor and neon gas pink in color present in the bulb requires high voltage at the starting to illuminate light.
Figure 1 a typical high pressure mercury lamp.
As pressure increases the chance of.
The mercury vapor lamp is a high intensity discharge lamp.
Two varieties of such lamps exist.
The mercury vapor lamp is similar in construction to the sodium vapor lamp.
At the heart of the lamp is an arc tube which is fabricated from quartz with a tungsten electrode disposed at either end.
This is different from fluorescents which use the mercury vapor arc to create a weaker light that mainly creates uv light to excite the phosphors.