Philips SDW-TG Mini White SON

The Mini WhiteSON lamp illustrated here is part of the natural development of the Philips WhiteSON lamp featured earlier in this section. Although the first generation White SON lamp proved to be very popular in retail lighting applications, particularly in food display areas or wherever a warmer colour light was desirable, it began to lose out to compact metal halide types in the mid 1990's as they became more popular.

Part of the reason for this was because the new compact metal halides were created as compact lamps, employing quartz outer bulbs which could endure the high temperatures present with such a small outer jacket. Small and elegant luminaires could be built around the new metal halide offerings. The WhiteSON lamp however was designed with an inexpensive borosilicate outer bulb at its inception, and its luminaires are large and inelegant by comparison with what could be done with metal halide.

In 2002 Philips revived the WhiteSON market by offering it in the compact quartz-jacketed package which consumers had clearly accepted as the standard for all new installations. The result was the Mini WhiteSON lamp shown here. It is not possible, however, for this lamp to run on the same circuitry as metal halide lamps owing to the lower volt drop of sodium lamps. A new series of compact ballasts of the same dimensions as metal halide types was therefore introduced at the same time to facilitate acceptance of this miniaturised lamp. To prevent accidental insertion of the sodium lamp into the metal halide luminaire there is a small lug beside one of the contact pins, the new modified caps being classified as types GX12-1 and GX12-2.

Manufacturer:	Philips Lighting
Lamp Power:	99 Watts
Lamp Current:	1.1 Amps
Lamp Voltage:	91 Volts	3.5-4.5kV Ignition
Cap Type:	GX12-1	Ceramic
Bulb Finish:	Clear	Alumina-doped Quartz
Bulb Type:	T-19	T-6 in eighths/inch
Overall Length:	110 mm	4 3/8 inches
Light Centre Length:	56 mm	2 13/64 inches
Arc Length:	18 mm	45/64 inch
Electrodes:	Tungsten-rhenium rod	No emitter
Atmosphere:	Na,Hg \| Xe	Outer: Nitrogen
Luminous Flux:	4,800 lm	@ 100 hrs
Luminous Efficacy:	48.5 lm/W	@ 100 hrs
Colour Temperature & CRI:	CCT: 2500K	CRI: Ra 83
Chromaticity Co-ordinates:	CCx: 0.470	CCy: 0.406
Burning Position:	Universal
Rated Lifetime:	10,000 hours	to 50% survival
Warm-up & Re-strike Time:	5 minutes	30 minutes max.
Factory:	Turnhout	Belgium
Date of Manufacture:	June 2002	Date Code F2
Original & Present Value:


References:	1) Philips Japan Technical Data Specification JP-SDW-TG-100-1, 28-II-2003.