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70w BLV HIT-DE COLORLITE: Arc shots The "Magenta" lamp is definitely magenta but is not very saturated and is more of a light pink IMO. Datasheet says saturation level is only 18%. The "Green" is quite a nice lime green colour. Datasheet states a saturation level of 35%. If you look close you can see a purple mantle around the main discharge. The "Blue" is quite a nice blue with a saturation level of 60% but is the dimmest of the four colours that I have. The "Orange" to be honest is more of a peach colour and doesn't seem very saturated despite what the datasheet says (51%). Maybe it just needs more run time. The heat reflective coating isn't very even, almost looks like each side was applied with a different method. It would be interesting to track down the above lamps in 150w flavour as they are supposed to have more saturated colours.

70w BLV HIT-DE COLORLITE: Arc shots

The "Magenta" lamp is definitely magenta but is not very saturated and is more of a light pink IMO.
Datasheet says saturation level is only 18%.

The "Green" is quite a nice lime green colour. Datasheet states a saturation level of 35%.
If you look close you can see a purple mantle around the main discharge.

The "Blue" is quite a nice blue with a saturation level of 60% but is the dimmest of the four colours that I have.

The "Orange" to be honest is more of a peach colour and doesn't seem very saturated despite what the datasheet says (51%). Maybe it just needs more run time.
The heat reflective coating isn't very even, almost looks like each side was applied with a different method.

It would be interesting to track down the above lamps in 150w flavour as they are supposed to have more saturated colours.

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dor123   [18 Apr, 2026 at 09:41 AM]
It is good that my orange lamp don't have this defect of the uneven heat reflective coatings. My current green 70W MH lamp, looks whitish green when my eyes adoped to the light, and saturated green when not. My 20000K 70W MH lamp have very high blue saturation, and so my Venture MH-DE 70W/UVS/PDX pink MH lamp.
AgentHalogen_87   [18 Apr, 2026 at 10:24 AM]
Very pretty colours!
Slyspark   [18 Apr, 2026 at 10:42 AM]
Halide colours are pretty, but usually not very deep when you compare them to modern LED coloured light sources. One area where LED does win, if you purely want a nice deep colour.
FrontSideBus   [18 Apr, 2026 at 12:36 PM]
To be honest, if I wanted coloured floodlighting, I'd use a normal lamp together with a gel filter on the fitting. Would be more saturated but not necessarily brighter. LED coloured floods are both extremely saturated and bright! They win out in that regard!
sodium   [18 Apr, 2026 at 04:33 PM]
Beautiful

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