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Philips 160w MLW (MBT-W) Full power. New-old-stock Philips self-ballasted mercury vapour blacklight lamp. At full power. Note the ballasting tungsten filament.

Philips 160w MLW (MBT-W) Full power.

New-old-stock Philips self-ballasted mercury vapour blacklight lamp.
At full power. Note the ballasting tungsten filament.

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Date added:19 Mar, 2016
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Kev   [19 Mar, 2016 at 09:03 AM]
What a beautiful picture! Clear and well shot! Looks like a lot of stuff inside that lamp? Must me old?
Danny   [19 Mar, 2016 at 09:18 AM]
Cool lamp I've got 2 GEC GLS shaped uv mercs!
FrontSideBus   [19 Mar, 2016 at 12:06 PM]
It's a later Belgium one. The giveaway is the filament at the top which optimises it for machine production. The older ones that had the filament around the arc tubes were hand made.
XmasLightGuy   [19 Mar, 2016 at 04:06 PM]
Awesome find! Beautiful lamp Shocked
AngryHorse   [19 Mar, 2016 at 06:43 PM]
Behold the majestic mercury ark!!! Very Happy
fluorescent   [30 Jan, 2018 at 03:23 AM]
Whoa! Amazing picture
Slyspark   [25 Feb, 2019 at 07:30 PM]
Be interested to see one of these actually lit!
Danny   [25 Feb, 2019 at 07:31 PM]
Ill bring mine to the meet. Im going to have to sort a list out tbh
FrontSideBus   [25 Feb, 2019 at 08:03 PM]
Lol was checking the comments and saw this and I was like "I could have sworn it was base-up before" then I realised one of my old pics has been dragged up lol. 2016 lol
dor123   [26 Apr, 2024 at 03:02 PM]
I've seen a similar Philips MLL 160W Belgium in a globe lantern at a playground near Nahal Na'aman street.
The lamp burned like yours, vertical base-down, and the arctube didn't reached to full output and the filament remained overdriven. It reached EOL after less than a year.
I had the lamp long time ago, burning base-up in my room at my father former apartment, and no problems.
I think this MLW 160W lamp also need to be burned base-up.

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