The ignitor aids in starting the lamp.
High pressure sodium light ignitor.
They emit bright yellow light.
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.
Typically these lights are used on sides of industrial buildings and in some street lamps.
The heavy duty transformer or ballast is also long lived if the bulbs are changed out before they burn out.
Sodium bulbs can last up to 20 000 hours.
There are two kinds of sodium lights.
You don t always have to replace the entire ballast sometimes it s just the igniter or possibly the capacitor.
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This is one of the components of a complete ballast kit but it may be all you need sometimes in order to get the unit to work again.
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Low pressure and high pressure low pressure sodium lamps are highly efficient electrical light sources but their yellow light restricts applications to outdoor lighting such as street lamps where they are widely used.
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Two varieties of such lamps exist.
Sodium lamps were first produced commercially by philips in holland in 1932.