Ah' you attempt to catch me at something... but in discussions direct with
Altman engineers about the 575w lamp including and specific to the HPR lamp I have a
bit of the advantage. (Read into well past postings about my favorite
fixture.)
On the other
hand, no that
fixture in not currently rated for that lamp especially given the MT version is all that is now available - really crappy lamp, did I mention this? Engineering wise and in my own use for years, the 575w/115v lamp, plus
Altman for the TP-22 version of it was on the cusp of getting recognized but than that version of the
fixture got discontinued... This no doubt in part due to having to pay for a new UL listing.
Officially, yes your warranty and UL listing plus insurance is void in going TP-22 with a 575w/115v lamp. On the other
hand, a 3.5Q as I have stated many times over in the years that does out punch the S-4
Leko given a HPR lamp or should be fine in competition with it given a GLC lamp is what I state and is very valid.
Never tried a
pattern projection with either lamp thus a grey area with me but I expect the GLC will do so better. On the other
hand yep, just as with any other
360Q type
fixture, the 3.5Q
fixture does just as well with the GLA, GLC and HPR lamps. Been there, done that - my first 575w/115v lamp in use in this
fixture type was one sent to me back in 1992 by Robert
Altman himself for use in my 3.5Q fixtures. Seems I sent a snail mail letter to the company and he called me in my dorm room in apologizing for not sending out the parts I requested on time but they were busy at the time in coming to market with the HX-600 lamp and its
fixture thus put all else asside.
He sent me extra lenses
etc in parts above and beyond my origional order following the phone
call and convesation student to industry leader, plus this pre-market lamp so I would as just some college punk see the difference. Yep, it was amazing at the time for a 3.5Q or even
360Q for a lamp given the college I went to at the time of the early S-4
Leko already on order was limited to only ten of them that year given supply/production ability.
Had that early - very early HX-600 lamp been literally given away at the time when the S-4
Leko been at that
point still hard to get, the
360Q might still have a place in the market overall as primary
fixture. This much less the
platform of the HPR been designed around a GLC instead of FLK (HX-600) lamp, and come to market sooner it also might still be a mainstay lamp and
fixture.
Water undre the bridge now but still as concept, the 575w/115v lamp is not officially rated for that discontinued type of light
fixture you are correct in. On the other
hand, it is a proper lamp for the
fixture Altman knows about in recognizing not in publication but for the use of for the most part thats not advertised and has at least been by me in use inside that
fixture type for what is it 15 years now without problems.
Yea, the EHD is old school, HPR and GLC plus GLA lamps for the 3.5Q fixtures I would advise and advise without adverse effects observed during a long term study of the lamps in the
fixture.