Lamps - HTI-150

[Rob Spence]

I need to order some HTI-150 lamps.

I see that they range in price from under $40 each to over $140 each (street prices).

Any comments on them or suggestions?
I suspect that the Osram ones are the top of the line but do I need to spend that much?

thanks

 

[Silas Pradetto]

Re: Lamps - HTI-150

Avoid anything Chinese

 

[Rob Spence]

Re: Lamps - HTI-150

Avoid anything Chinese

Ok, but why?

 

[Silas Pradetto]

Re: Lamps - HTI-150

Ok, but why?

Chinese lamps are interesting. They're about 50% as bright as the 'real' counterparts, and they have a tendency to explode after about 20 hours leaving glass everywhere inside your fixture. This happened to just about 100% of the lamps I had. When replaced with real Phillips lamps, they ran perfect again, so it wasn't a fixture issue.

 

[Molnar Ferenc]

Re: Lamps - HTI-150

We had just very bad experiences with chinese HMI/HTI lamps. Not only the brightness and color performance are the problems but lifetime and unreliability.
I bought from at least 3-4 different sources, neither was better.

The original OSRAM and PHILIPS lamps are the best

 

[Rob Spence]

Re: Lamps - HTI-150

Thanks. Ok, I will avoid the $40 lamps.

Pointers to best prices for good ones? The OSRAM ones seem to be $140 that I have seen so far.

 

[Vinny D'Agostino]

Re: Lamps - HTI-150

I have a dealer that has about 5pcs of the Osram #54078
Price is $123.75/ea. + tax.
Don't know if thats good or bad price wise but at least you have something to compare it to.