Key Benefits of the OBB PowerArc™ arc lamp housing design:
Delivers Five to Six Times More Light
Ozone Free Lamp Housing with No Venting Chimney
More Compact
Environmentally Friendly Producing no Ozone and Consuming Less Energy
Less Expensive
A 75 Watt Xenon Arc Lamp Illuminator from OBB Provides the Same Power Output as a 450 Watt Xenon Arc Lamp in a Vertical Lamp Housing!
Users of old style vertical arc lamp housings are throwing away as much as 90% of the lamps output, due to poor collection efficiency. These old style vertical lamp housings have a collection lens in front of the arc lamp and sometimes, but not always, a back reflector behind them. The problem with this old design is that only the light that actually strikes these optical elements is delivered outside of the lamp housing. All other photons emitted by the lamp are wasted, simply heating the inside of the lamp housing. Conversely the unique OBB PowerArc™ lamp housing has an enveloping ellipsoidal reflector that collects virtually all of the light emitted by the lamp arc, delivering those photons to a secondary focal point outside of the lamp housing, and it does so without any lenses.
For the same bulb, the OBB PowerArc™ delivers 5 to 6 times more light, to the secondary focus! That means that an OBB PowerArc™ lamp housing with a 75 watt xenon lamp provides the equivalent optical power of a 450 watt xenon lamp in an old style vertical lamp housing. And it does so with greater power density due to a smaller focal spot, and at a small fraction of the cost of a big old 450 watt illuminator.
For more information on the PowerArc™ visit the PowerArc™ Hardware page.