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Re: EGL mercury filled electrodes
Posted By: H.Erickson In Response To: Re: EGL mercury filled electrodes (H.Erickson)
Date: Thursday, 20 June 2013, at 11:36 p.m.
> Eurocoms HG electrode is a Philips Lighting
> capsule. The original had 19mg of HG per
> electrode,one capsule per electrode, a total
> then of 38mg per AR/HG unit.
> The capsule is used in the ALTO brand
> Fluorescent lamps with as little as 4mg of
> HG. The capsule was enlarged for AR neon
> Lamps to 19mg.> The EGL HG electrode ( 2007 ) Has 100mg of
> HG in their capsule. Only one is used per AR
> unit. You must shake the HG to the other
> electrode after opening. I have not heard of
> any failures with EGLs Newer design. EGL
> states that they pioneered theirs from the
> ground up, NOT borrowing from the
> fluorescent industry.> You need an RF device to open the capsule
> after processing the argon unit. I believe a
> eurcom wand(RF device) will open EGLs
> Capsule. The original Eurocom wand sold for
> 1200.00 not sure what EGLs is selling for.> One can see the difference easily between
> the two companies invention. The EGL Capsule
> is attached to one of the wires just inside
> the pinched area and is larger than the
> Eurocom Type, plus you can easily see the HG
> in the EGL unit.
> The eurocom HG capsule is much smaller and
> is placed on a seperate metal piece in
> between the two wires above the shell,
> before the pinched area. I have pictures of
> both and will try to put a link to them
> later.pics below, of course EGL has their name stamped on the pinched area on the electrode.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97823676@N06/
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