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Buying High Intensity Discharge Lamps

Top-level product categories: icon non-laser light sources, icon non-laser light sources

More general product categories: gas discharge lamps

Related product categories: metal halide lamps, xenon lamps, krypton lamps

High intensity discharge lamps are gas discharge lamps of different types (e.g., metal halide, sodium vapor, or xenon short-arc lamps) operated with high power density and small emitting volume. They are used in various industrial, commercial, and outdoor lighting applications due to their high efficiency and brightness.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article high intensity discharge lamps

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying high intensity discharge lamps. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for high intensity discharge lamps. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for High Intensity Discharge Lamps

7 suppliers for high intensity discharge lamps are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package

presenting their product descriptions

There are no suppliers for high intensity discharge lamps with our Advertising Package registered yet. These would have a company logo, a product description (very useful!), and a product image, and also appear in the corresponding Encyclopedia article.

Other Suppliers

HELLA, Inc.
United States
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LEDVANCE GmbH
Germany
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LUMILEDS
United States
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OSRAM GmbH
Germany
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Philips Lighting
Germany
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Radium Lampenwerk GmbH
Germany
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Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Profile page  Website  Get quotation

If any displayed information is incorrect (e.g., a listed supplier does not offer such products) or legally problematic, please notify RP Photonics so that the problem can be solved.


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