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Xenon lamp
Glass with metal fittings. Fitted zipped canvas cover and two wire leads.
Note from Research and Development section 17 August 1962:
The lighting equipment which provided the main navigational light at Dungeness comprises two 500 mm drum lenses in a biform arrangement; each lens having a 2 KW Xenon arc discharge lamp at its focus. A character of 1.3 seconds flash every 10 seconds, at a listed intensity of 300,000 candles, is obtained by switching the lamp on for the duration of each flash. The lamp operates at a vltage of 25 volts and a current of 80 amperes. It has a quartz evelope and is filled with Xenon gas to a cold pressure of 4 atmospheres.
Note from Research and Development section 17 August 1962:
The lighting equipment which provided the main navigational light at Dungeness comprises two 500 mm drum lenses in a biform arrangement; each lens having a 2 KW Xenon arc discharge lamp at its focus. A character of 1.3 seconds flash every 10 seconds, at a listed intensity of 300,000 candles, is obtained by switching the lamp on for the duration of each flash. The lamp operates at a vltage of 25 volts and a current of 80 amperes. It has a quartz evelope and is filled with Xenon gas to a cold pressure of 4 atmospheres.
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Object Details
| ID: | NAV0859 |
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| Type: | Xenon lamp |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Mazda |
| Date made: | 1961 ? |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 73 mm x 325 mm x 170 mm |
| Parts: | Xenon lamp |