Specialty Lighting

GE's New 400-Watt HID Lamps Offer Better Efficiency, Lower Maintenance

CLEVELAND – New 400-watt high intensity discharge (HID) ceramic metal halide lamps from GE Consumer & Industrial represent the next step in creating a more efficient, longer life solution for churches, schools and other commercial facilities that require wall washing or simple spot lamps with a high color-rendering index. The new HID lamps are designed to fit a variety of fixtures that may currently use halogen light sources.

GE's CMH®400/941/GX9.5 and CMH®400/932/GX9.5 are at least three times more efficient than standard 1200-watt halogen lamps used in similar specialty lighting applications, and their long lifespan ensures fewer maintenance hassles and lower overall operating costs. The lamps also produce less heat, which means fewer mechanical requirements are needed to cool fixtures-an important distinction for end-users in the "architainment" lighting industry.

In addition to offering a ceramic metal halide-based maintenance-free solution, GE CMH®400/941/GX9.5 and CMH®400/932/GX9.5 lamps provide a maximum light output of 40,000 lumens, with a rated life of more than 6,000 hours. These HID lamps deliver a correlated color temperature of 3200K and 4100K and a 90-plus color-rendering index.

"Our goal was to design a product that delivered the efficiency of discharge technology, while offering the high CRI and long life that GE CMH® technology can provide," says Tim Miller, GE Entertainment Lighting product general manager. "By adding a standard base used for entertainment fixtures and a smaller outer jacket, this new series offers a lot of flexibility for new and retrofit fixture designs."

GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliances, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and ecomaginationSM, a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE), imagination at work, sells products under the Monogram®, Profile™, GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWater™, Reveal® and Energy Smart® consumer brands, and Entellisys®, Tetra®, Vio™ and Immersion® commercial brands. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.

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