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	Information About Microwave-Powered Lamps

Primarc microwave-powered lamps are manufactured from the highest quality materials and to the most exacting manufacturing specifications. Their uses are varied, but are most common in the following industries:

Fiber Optic Coating
Electronics
Compact Disc Manufacture
Plastic Container Decoration

Liquid Finishing
Two-Piece Can Manufacture
Graphic Arts
General Industrial Applications

Operation

The microwave-powered lamp is excited by high frequency microwave energy emitted from a device called a magnetron. A small, low-pressure mercury vapor lamp located behind the reflector radiates short-wave UV, which ionizes the gas inside the microwave bulb. The lamp then reaches full power within a few seconds, producing the spectral output required for curing.

Primarc microwave-powered lamps are available in 6 and 10-inch sizes and vary in power from 300 watts per inch to 600 watts per inch.

The standard microwave-powered lamp has a mercury/gas fill. However, as with Primarc electrode lamps, we can modify the spectral distribution by the addition of special metal halides as shown below.

Mercury

Mercury Plus

Mercury Indium

Mercury Gallium

Mercury Iron