You can't beat the run up of a SOX lamp tbh. I really miss it tbh. All gone now near me about 5-6 years ago for SON and CPO but now even those are gone for LED. Still loads of SOX still in used around the Merseyside area though. I know of a few Wardle Liverpool lanterns which have been going since the 1930's!
That’s a shame, there’s still loads of Sox around me. There’s a small village locally that was all Sox until recently when it was LEDed and I saved a few fixtures. There’s still a lot left there though
The 135W and 180W SOX lamps use a capacitor in series and not in parallel like with the lower wattage lamps. So with the high wattage lamps it's not just to help get a better power factor.
I just wired it how it was already wired on the gear tray - there’s a 180w there now and I’m using a leak transformer so I didn’t bother getting a cap for it
Big SOX lamps don’t seem to fare well in the post . I bought a Thorn EMI 135W sox which arrived broken, the seller sent me another one that did survive . The thorn ballast that I have for it doesn’t have an igniter for some reason .
You can't beat the run up of a SOX lamp tbh. I really miss it tbh. All gone now near me about 5-6 years ago for SON and CPO but now even those are gone for LED. Still loads of SOX still in used around the Merseyside area though. I know of a few Wardle Liverpool lanterns which have been going since the 1930's!
That’s a shame, there’s still loads of Sox around me. There’s a small village locally that was all Sox until recently when it was LEDed and I saved a few fixtures. There’s still a lot left there though
The 135W and 180W SOX lamps use a capacitor in series and not in parallel like with the lower wattage lamps. So with the high wattage lamps it's not just to help get a better power factor.
I just wired it how it was already wired on the gear tray - there’s a 180w there now and I’m using a leak transformer so I didn’t bother getting a cap for it
Big SOX lamps don’t seem to fare well in the post . I bought a Thorn EMI 135W sox which arrived broken, the seller sent me another one that did survive . The thorn ballast that I have for it doesn’t have an igniter for some reason .
My 180w Sox was broken the first time, the second one survived tho, no igniter then it’s probably a leak transformer
Does it still have a guaranteed long life if you put too many volts across it?
No