SATCO Lighting S23162 36W LED HID Replacement, CCT Selectable, Type B, Ballast Bypass, Medium Base, 277-480V, ColorQuick Technology

No. The S23162 is a Type B ballast bypass lamp, so the existing HID ballast has to be removed and line voltage wired directly to the medium base socket. Leaving the ballast in circuit is not an option with this lamp. If you want a plug-and-play swap into a working ballast, you need a Type A lamp instead.

Yes, it runs on 277V through 480V at 50/60Hz, drawing 0.130A down to 0.075A across that range. That makes it a lamp for high voltage commercial and industrial circuits, typically high bay or wallpack retrofits. It will not operate on a 120V or 208/240V circuit, so check the circuit voltage at the fixture before ordering.

The 36W Satco corncob uses ColorQuick technology and is field selectable between 3000K, 4000K and 5000K, so one lamp covers warm white through daylight. Output shifts slightly with the setting: 4680 lumens at one setting, 5040 at another and 4860 at the third. For property managers standardizing a building, this means a single stocked lamp can match whatever CCT is already in the other fixtures.

Yes. The S23162 is an enclosed rated lamp, so it can go into a sealed wallpack, acorn, or glass-enclosed fixture without voiding its thermal rating. It is also damp location rated and suitable indoors or outdoors, which covers canopies, parking structures and covered walkways. It is not rated for wet locations, so the fixture itself has to keep direct water off the lamp.

Burning position is universal on this 36W corncob, so base-up, base-down, or horizontal all work. That matters on shoebox and wallpack retrofits where the socket is horizontal and many HID replacement lamps restrict orientation. The 300 degree beam spread means light is thrown nearly all the way around the lamp body rather than in one direction.

The 36W Satco corncob is rated as a 125W incandescent equivalent and delivers 4680 to 5040 lumens depending on the CCT setting. For retrofit work the lumen figure is what to match against the existing lamp's output rather than its nameplate watts, since an aging HID lamp is often putting out far less than its original rating.

Yes, the 36W Satco corncob is Title 24 compliant and FCC compliant. It is not on the DLC qualified products list, so it will not qualify for utility rebate programs that require DLC listing. Institutional buyers chasing rebates should confirm their program's listing requirement before specifying it.

The lamp is listed as dimmable. Because it is a ballast bypass lamp wired to 277-480V line voltage, any dimming has to be done with control gear rated for that circuit voltage, not a standard 120V wall dimmer. On most high voltage HID retrofits the lamp is simply switched.

Average rated life is 50,000 hours. On a dusk to dawn parking lot schedule of roughly 4,000 hours a year that is better than ten years of service, which is the main reason crews move HID high bays and wallpacks to corncob LED, the lift trip costs more than the lamp.

Body is aluminum with a polycarbonate housing in dark gray, under a clear plastic lens, and the lamp weighs 1.4 lb. The aluminum does double duty as the heat sink. At that weight, confirm an old porcelain socket and its mounting are sound before hanging it, particularly in a horizontal wallpack.

The lamp is 80 CRI, which is the normal specification point for warehouse, garage, parking and exterior area lighting and a clear step up from the metal halide and high pressure sodium it replaces. For retail display or color critical inspection work you would want a 90+ CRI source instead.