SATCO Lighting S13133 30W LED HID Replacement, ED23, 5000K, Medium Base, 120-277V, Type B Ballast Bypass

No. The S13133 is a ballast bypass (Type B) lamp, so the existing HID ballast has to be removed or bypassed and line voltage wired straight to the medium base socket. It runs on 120V to 277V at 60Hz. If you drop it into a fixture with the ballast still in the circuit, it will not work correctly. Plan on an electrician opening each fixture once; after that the ballast is out of the maintenance picture entirely.

Yes. The S13133 carries a wet location rating and is listed for indoor or outdoor use, so wall packs, canopies, and open parking area fixtures are in scope. It is also approved for both enclosed and open fixtures, which matters because a lot of LED HID retrofits are open fixture only and fail early inside a sealed glass wall pack.

Burning position is universal, so the lamp can go base up in a high bay or shoebox, base down in a pendant, or horizontal in a wall pack without derating. Light distribution is 360 degrees, so in a fixture with a reflector you get an omnidirectional source much like the HID lamp it replaces rather than a one sided LED beam.

At 4000 lumens and 30 watts, the S13133 is positioned as a 200W incandescent equivalent. In HID terms buyers usually match on lumens, so compare it against the delivered output of the lamp coming out rather than the nameplate wattage of the old fixture: a fixture that has lost output over years of burn will be exceeded, a high output metal halide will not.

No, this lamp is not dimmable. Wire it to a plain switched or contactor controlled circuit. If a facility is running dimming or step dimming on the fixtures, leaving a dimmer in the circuit is the wrong application for this lamp, and an on/off occupancy sensor or photocell is the control approach that suits it.

5000K is a cool daylight white, the color most commonly used for parking, security, and warehouse lighting. It is fixed, not field selectable, so every S13133 in a run will match every other one. It will not match a 4000K neutral white or a 3000K warm lamp, and mixed color temperatures on one facade or lot are obvious at night. CRI is 80.

Draw runs 0.250A at the low end of the voltage range down to 0.108A at 277V, at 60Hz. That is the number to use when counting lamps per branch circuit on a relamp; the higher the supply voltage, the lower the per lamp current, so a 277V lot circuit carries substantially more of these than a 120V one.

Title 24 compliant, yes. It is not DLC approved, so it will not qualify under a rebate program that requires a DesignLights Consortium listing. Specify accordingly if the job is being written around utility incentive money. The lamp is also FCC compliant.

It uses an ED23 lamp shape with a medium screw base, the same envelope and base as the HID lamp it replaces, so it goes into the existing socket and fits inside a fixture built for an ED23. Construction is glass, metal and plastic, with a glass lens in white and a white housing, so the lit appearance is diffuse rather than a bare LED array.

A Type B lamp like the S13133 wires direct to line voltage and takes the ballast out of the system, which removes the component that fails most often and stops you paying ballast losses on every fixture. The cost is labor: someone has to open each fixture and rewire the socket, and the fixture must then be labeled as bypassed. A ballast compatible lamp installs in seconds with no electrician, but it stays dependent on a ballast that will eventually fail and takes the lamp out with it. On a large relamp where the fixtures are already being opened, the bypass approach is usually the one that pencils.

Rated life is 25,000 hours. For a dusk to dawn exterior application running roughly 4,200 hours a year, that is close to six years of service on one lamp, which is the case most property managers make for going ballast bypass: the ballast comes out and the relamp cycle stretches well past what an HID lamp gave them.