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GL9 and GL16

PRODUCT NO.

M271551/M261651

Outstanding lighting performance, ease of maintenance and low cost of ownership have been the major factors influencing the design of this lamp and have helped to establish the robust G-series design as the market-leading mining lamp for the last 50 years.

Product Description

The heart of the G-series mining lamps is the 48 Lumen bulb combined with the unique focussed reflector. The combination of these two elements, designed and manufactured by Enersys, produces a light source that is focussed to give a spot of 5000 lumens at 1 metre. These performance levels surpass all conventional competitor lamps, and have helped to establish the robust G-series design as the market-leading mining lamp for the last 50 years.

Outstanding lighting performance, ease of maintenance and low cost of ownership have been the major factors influencing the design of this lamp. Every component in this rugged headpiece can be replaced in order to make it the “lowest cost of ownership” caplamp in the world.

The lamp is ATEX and IEC Ex certified for use in Coal mines and other hazardous environments. The main bulb, with its precision reflector assembly, achieves a spot of 9500 Cd over 3 degrees (this is the normal area of focussed sight for the human eye) and more than 10 Cd over 120 degrees. A great deal of research was undertaken by the University of New South Wales (Australia) in the late1980’s and the light distribution of the Oldham main light source uses this research to provide the optimal working light.

Light Output

The battery voltage seriously affects the light output from a halogen bulb. A small percentage change in voltage greatly reduces the lumen output of the light source. To show this effect the following graph has been produced. The “Oldham” main bulb is rated at 48 L (Lumens) and has a burning life of more than 1000 hours. A 4v 0.46A krypton bulb provides the auxiliary ‘pilot light’. This bulb is rated so as to ensure that if a person becomes trapped in a mine, a reliable low-level light source will be provided for a minimum of 24 hours.

The retina of the human eye plays a critical role in how we see. The retina, located at the back of the eyeball, contains photoreceptors that convert light into electrical impulses that travel through the optic nerve to the brain. There are two types of photoreceptors: cones and rods; rods have greater short-wavelength spectral sensitivity than cones and are more sensitive to light. The cones work in the longer light wavelengths and are more sensitive to colour.

The halogen bulb fitted in the G headpiece has a greater intensity in the long-wave region of the light spectrum when compared with other light sources. This activates the cones and enables the eye to see colour, making the lamp more suitable for seeing detail such as the ore vein in a nickel mine. With its precisely focussed beam, and high overall average illuminance, the tight beam profile of the G-type caplamp clearly shows the beneficial properties for viewing distant objects or for conducting fine detail work tasks that require high illuminance.