Lol. Mine is installed in my office and is on a timer set to 7pm-3:30am every day. It is actually a tremendous amount easier on my eyes than my normal lighting (200W of 6800K fluorescents).
Ballast should arrive tomorrow, so I decided to do a bit of work on my housing. Decided to ditch the PVC idea and go for a more typical approach, using the double reflector.
Everything is just tacked together with hot glue at the moment (which works surprisingly well), as I don't have any wood screws.
Also needs a bulb support at the top, just for a bit of extra bulb support. The socket wasn't designed for a LPS lamp I don't think
May or may not polish the alu reflector yet, it's pretty shiny how it is.
Great isn't it? My only pet peeve is that cameras portray the 589 as 595-600ish. The difference is so clear to my eyes and those who haven't seen a lamp in person might get the wrong impression.
Mine flickers pink/blue sometimes on starting and also glows at the filament supports when starting and sometimes when running. I think the seller might have tested it with it vertical as there -was- sodium at the filaments, but most of it has moved away now. It's still running fine though and I suspect it shall continue to to nearly full, if not full lifetime.
My lamp throws off a decent number of blue spectral lines from the argon fill gas, so I can still distinguish blue from red with the light most times. If you have any red laser goggles (blue glass) put them on and look at the lamp.
Patiently waiting for the outside night video now it's dark!
I have red and blue laser goggles if you don't have any, I'll bring them into work with me tomorrow if you want, and if you don't mind driving to Albury.