The other argument in the enviromental debate is that the reduced lamp life accorded by restriking leads to a faster turnover of lamps and thus more lamps to be disposed of, complete with Mercury and other "hazardous wastes".
This is also part of the compact fluoro debate that is often neglected...
As said, 1hr on, 15min. off if rated for 750hr a lamp is rated for and that's a warranty of the lamp type of thing if it doesn't do so in up to 2/3 of it's rated lamp life. I doubt if any lamp would ever have up to those amount of 750 lamp strikes given a show in use is what at least two hours?
Movng light fixtures now indeed need to
track not only lamp hours but also strikes and burst mode minutes for warranty purposes as otherwise it does make it difficult to
return bad lamp or make for a statement in design for the
fixture problems. Just had a moving light
fixture maker reject my request for sending back some bad warranty lamps. They said the lamps that were sent with the fixtures with my full
tracking of the lamps were over a year old.... sorry.. your fixtures were not used much by us given most designers didn't request them for use and thus they over the past year in lamps failing due to
fixture or lamp problem, such a problem was not noted before now but are valid warranty lamp claims. (So if you won't take back the lamps that come with your fixtures... this Spring what's the price of your fixtures without lamps installed in them in you now having to remove the lamps and I'll provide them no doubt cheaper? Yes we will do this if you won't represent as lamp distributer the lamps you represent for normal warranty purposes of the lamp hours over the
fixture age. And if not... perhaps a different brand of
fixture will work better for our needs.)
Next year should we buy fixtures form that manufacturer expect we won't be paying for lamps in the fixtures already installed in them. Screw you, don't follow normal polcies of bad lamps due to bad lamp to bad design for
fixture in me at times both sending back
base for lamp and lamp together in the same box = what's up for this in first lamp installed in the
fixture and I want a refund on both. That manufacturer can spend extra time in pulling the lamps from their fixtures and us providing our own from suppliers that will represent their lamps for warranty purposes after manufacturer evaluation of the cause of the failure. Best way to get an upgrade from a lamp or
fixture is to
send them back when they fail before expeced lamp life or 2/3 of that at least. 1.2KW Fast Fit lamps at least took such stress on their lamps and fixtures at least in upgrade or improvement.
So overall as a concept, if the lamp is rated for even if 3,000 hours given this now 3,000 arc strikes, its doubtful one would ever
strike and douse the lamp that amount of times overthe life of the lamp. Opposing side the the douse or leave struck arguement I did study into and for me it would seem nonfounded in concern.
You go over the 3,000 strikes or even if high output norm of 750 lamp hours thus 750 strikes and get less than say 500 lamp hours -
send that lamp back and be suspect to the
fixture problem if sestemic over time verses lamp problem in no upgrade to the lamp in lasting longer. Modern fixtures often have problems such as the VL-3K or Mac2K XB in adjusting.
Overall concept still, douse them arc's where possible.
On recycling, your supplier of lamps often will take on the small scale your mover lamps back for free. Get past this, most clean up companies or lamp recyclers verses lamp manufacturers also have recycling available - heck even Feit recycles. I'm up to like two 55gal drums full of moving light lamp or sports lightler or shop lighting lamp recycling per year. This in addition to two drums of
fluorescent, two of
incandescent etc. including various batteries, computer
circuit boards, computer monitors, capacators, transformers
etc. Few thousand dollars to recycle per year. Mostly moving light lamps are more costly to recycle due to their rare earth elements. Just a thing you gotta live with in me using a kittie litter container for a say week or three temporary storage for the amount of lamps I inspect per week. Such a size of container to recycle should be sufficient for most and not cost over $1K to get rid of.
Beyond that, want my end of year bonus
reflection of my fight against the terriff against importion of moving light lamps given it's based on the proper disposal of them. Given I do so and pay extra for it, we should not pay that terriff per lamp charged or it should get refunded given I have records indicating I was sort of double taxed on such lamps so as to buy and properly dispose of and given I did so was also taxed as it were.
I.E. lamps not grey marketed from Europe get this tax on them for recycling purposes. You properly recycle them and pay for that in doing so you are perhaps double taxed on for doing so if you really do pay for proper recycling. That's a problem I have never found a way around dealing with.