TMB, All Bulbs, TechniLux... probably Creative
Stage Lighting, in believing I heard they have them... and by now most other suppliers
Fixture or lamp I would expect have or can get them now.
Main difference is GE/Corning no longer is making the globes for GE/Osram/Philips. Ushio and Eiko both on their own stopped making them in their own
globe suppliers given the lack of volume.... slightly before Corning stopped I would suspect. A good question in
thru the years we have heard of front
lens popping from
reflector, and or in general failures in lamp capsule.
Eiko I would watch in possibly they might have come back in supplying them or as per an alternate source - Eiko tends to linger on
incandescent's, or their factory might have been shut down or re-started or shut down than restarted by a different company. One should well respect potential of that company as per the Hyundai of the lighting industry for building in quality.
In not having asked or being told the story, large
PAR Can suppliers no doubt were onto this problem as soon as the news Corning was shutting down. Could be a question of one or more of them perhaps buying out the Corning factory in Mexico.... possible - don't know where the outer globes were made. Or just bought out the design for the lamp if no longer patent - probably. Certainly was a quick turn around time to start making lamps overall - kind of like faster I would think than the war time turning around of factories that once made cars in now making at least jeeps.
As for the quality of the lamps, finally I think got my last pallets.. cannot tell and will not be able to tell for months. Some of the new lamps probably shipped out to tours. Problem being I have no idea of what's used on them or sestemic problems on them yet, or if still filtering
thru old
stock - a lot of that still in
stock.
That said it does become an interesting question of how well they are working. How to
mark the lamps - which often came in marked over GE cardboard boxes/cases so as to
send back for evaluation if they fail? This also given I believe a 800hr lamp how to
track lamp hours for remote shows.
Assuming I should not put a sticker on the
reflector, suppose some sort of smaller high temperature sticker on the
porcelain lamp
base would be appropriate with date installed and date removed. If I have an average amount of days the cans were used per week and hours... which I can if specified which
leg of the tour info, I might be able to get this info.
Above nearly impossible to
track.... but not impossible given a TV "entertainment" tour, done by our shop staff, and the tour/show and our guys have just as much worry about when they will have to change the
system as I do. Thanks in a good question that I will look into. Never tracked
PAR 64 lamps before... but might just start giving them a serial number in lamp
tracking to find this out.
Thanks. Something to look into.