Want to buy Red or Blue Xenon Strobe Bulbs?

[Guest guest]

Well, guess what folks, I FINALLY found COLORED Xenon strobe tubes! So yes, they DO EXIST!

Now I am not sure of their voltages, so can't say if they would or would not work in a standard strobe lamp fixture, but they look like they could.

Here's a link to RED and BLUE Xenon Strobe Tubes (Spiral Tube - 3 pin):
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/529593664/Colourful_Sprial_Xenon_Flash_Tube_Strobe.html

Blue (Standard Strobe Tube 3-pin):
http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/100466550/Xenon_Flash_Tube_Colored.htmlue

Only color I "could not" find was green! - But with all they have I could have missed it.

Here is the first of seven pages that shows the strobes they sell:

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/xenon-flash-tube.html

[Guest guest]

Sorry, second url got messed up for the Blue standard type Xenon Bulb.

Here's the correct url:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/100466550/Xenon_Flash_Tube_Colored.html

{if I could have edited the previous post would have corrected it there.}

[Guest guest]

Well I tried to enter an e-mail to the person at the links I supplied, was trying to get more info, but I can't get past the "Alibaba" or whatever the hell it is to send an e-mail, even though I entered the codes correctly every time {kept telling me the code was incorrect, it WAS correct and I've had this issue with other sites before}, so then I tried to enter a chat with them and it wouldn't let me in unless I was a member of "Alibaba" or whatever it is, then it converted everything to Chinese and I still had not gotten access. I quit trying to attempt contact after that.

So I gave up asking this supplier/MANUFACTURER ANYTHING about their colored Xenon strobe bulbs. Why they can't just go through a regular e-mail channel and NOT use all this code entering crap is annoying at best.

Wanted to ask, since they claim to be a "manufacturer" of Xenon bulbs/tubes, if green or any other color would be available or possible to manufacture. As well as voltages and interchangability of the red or blue spiral strobes in a standard 120vac US strobe fixture/circuit.

If anyone can get access and send this person an e-mail, I say go for it, and see what answers you can get from them.

I just can't get past the Alibaba crap and personally I don't need, or even see a reason to join another list just to get information on a product, and then have my inbox flooded with more adverts I do not want or need!

[WilliamS]

At least you tried. If you come up with anything let me know. Im trying to find a few different xenon types

[-klb-]

Those appear to be colored glass tubes, probably with standard xenon fill. So the color is probably not as washed out as the colored plastic lenses, but I expect they loose some brightness...

Also, they are not the simple U tube we normally see in the strobes, but have one turn of coil as well. They appear to be claiming 6WS, while my recollection is that the ones normally used in CLS are 5WS.. So using a CLS circuit won't drive it quite at full power. The only concern I would have is with all the extra trigger wire out there, and the extra tube length from that 1 turn, will the trigger coil provide enough energy to cause the initial ionization, and allow the tube to fire?

As for green, I think the difference is that red and blue are both fairly common public safety colors.. I don't think I have ever seen green used that way. They could probably do it, for a minimum order of 10,000 units...

[Guest guest]

klb, yes, the glass is what is colored, I looked everywhere I could think of using various names for the searches.

I could not find a single CLEAR Xenon tube that had any type of inert gas that would generate a color effect.

These are the only colored types I could find anywhere, short of the 12v types for automotive use, and even those were either by using an opage cap or the glass itself was colored.

None anywhere I could find that had any type of inert gas that would illuminate in color.

If they are out there, I sure haven't been able to locate them.....yet.

But I keep looking just in case I might stumble across them, but I do have some doubt about clear Xenon's filled with a clear, but colored, inert gas that when charged and fired would illuminate in red, green, blue or any other color aside from the common "white" we all know.

[George Simmons]

It seems like this product category is quickly coming to life. Doesn't have the pop of the xenon prototype but at least we're heading in the right direction.

[Guest guest]

George Simmons wrote:

It seems like this product category is quickly coming to life.  Doesn't have the pop of the xenon prototype but at least we're heading in the right direction. 

 

That didn't look bad at all, matter of fact, it looked pretty darn good George!

I use fast on/off transitions for lightning or strobe effects just using standard white, purple or orange LED strands. Works fairly well, still not as good as aXenon tube/bulb would be.

[Guest guest]

Jeff Spooner wrote:

Be carefull you might get bullied tim if you talk about new stuff.

Tim? Who mentioned Tim? Well besides you?

[Steven]

I found some interesting reading from Wikipedia. It says: "The spectrum emitted by flashtubes is far more dependent on current density than on the fill pressure or gas type." The bottom line is that it is impossible to get a single, bright color from a flash tube.