This paper shows up to 10k hours for the Ushio B1 bulb: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/lsj/50/7/50_394/_pdf this poster extends the data and shows an L70 of around ~13.5k hours: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0694/8637/9189/files/240617_Yagyu_ICFUST_Poster2V2.pptx?v=1751931924 I’ve also seen a fair amount of testing from OSLUV that makes me personally believe these publications—Ushio sank 10 years of R&D into their emitter, and it’s really good. It’s also expensive, limited in some ways, and only available from one manufacturer, but it definitely seems to have great stable output and impressive lifespan. But fair point about the electronics—the lifetime estimate is based on the bulb lifetime. Aerolamp hasn’t even existed for 10,000 hours. This is why we have a no-questions-asked return/replace policy—if your lamp fails we’ll send you a new one.
Thank you for the links, very helpful. Also interesting to see that the lamp consists of 4 separate bulbs. I suppose that will help with the longevity as every bulb makes a 1⁄4 of the output, where as other designs might to lead to “overdrive”, improving temporary maximum output but at a cost of earlier degradation.
When do you think the Aerolamp will be available outside the USA?
Yeah I think that is part of it! Excimer lamps are really cool. They do all sorts of other stuff too, monkeying with the glass composition, gas mix, voltage waveform, etc. It’s pretty optimized—I’m hopeful that other bulb manufacturers will copy them(/have the market incentive to bother copying them), a lot of these optimizations are totally public information that’s been published in journals since the 90s.
I’m hopeful that we can start a slow rollout of international shipping in the next few days/weeks, we’re setting things up with DHL right now
This paper shows up to 10k hours for the Ushio B1 bulb: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/lsj/50/7/50_394/_pdf this poster extends the data and shows an L70 of around ~13.5k hours: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0694/8637/9189/files/240617_Yagyu_ICFUST_Poster2V2.pptx?v=1751931924 I’ve also seen a fair amount of testing from OSLUV that makes me personally believe these publications—Ushio sank 10 years of R&D into their emitter, and it’s really good. It’s also expensive, limited in some ways, and only available from one manufacturer, but it definitely seems to have great stable output and impressive lifespan. But fair point about the electronics—the lifetime estimate is based on the bulb lifetime. Aerolamp hasn’t even existed for 10,000 hours. This is why we have a no-questions-asked return/replace policy—if your lamp fails we’ll send you a new one.
Thank you for the links, very helpful. Also interesting to see that the lamp consists of 4 separate bulbs. I suppose that will help with the longevity as every bulb makes a 1⁄4 of the output, where as other designs might to lead to “overdrive”, improving temporary maximum output but at a cost of earlier degradation.
When do you think the Aerolamp will be available outside the USA?
Yeah I think that is part of it! Excimer lamps are really cool. They do all sorts of other stuff too, monkeying with the glass composition, gas mix, voltage waveform, etc. It’s pretty optimized—I’m hopeful that other bulb manufacturers will copy them(/have the market incentive to bother copying them), a lot of these optimizations are totally public information that’s been published in journals since the 90s.
I’m hopeful that we can start a slow rollout of international shipping in the next few days/weeks, we’re setting things up with DHL right now