Osram entertainment · stage & studio discharge
Halogen to HID, fluorescent to airfield, surgical to UV-C. The widest range of specialised, specialist and hard-to-find lamps in Southern Africa: held locally, sourced direct from the manufacturers, and backed by people who know the part number before you finish the sentence.
The brief almost always starts the same way: someone has tried three suppliers and a Google search, and the lamp is discontinued, obscure, or buried in an old fitting nobody recognises. That's the call we're built for. Specialised Lamps is the deep catalogue behind the Lamphouse Group: the conventional, technical and obsolete-replacement sources that keep theatres, hospitals, runways, factories and reproduction houses running. One reference desk, fifty years of part numbers, and stock on the shelf in three cities.
We split the range the way a buyer searches for it, by technology and application. Each family carries current production, legacy stock and the obsolete-replacement equivalents that keep an existing fitting alive. Three families have their own dedicated silo; we'll point you there.
GLS, candle, golfball, pygmy, reflector, striplites, sealed-beam/PAR, appliance and rough-service incandescent, the everyday replacements.
MR16 & MR11 dichroic, AR111, G9, R7s linear, JD, capsules and Ba15d, mains and low-voltage, in every base and beam.
T5, T4, HO/VHO, circline, U-shape & 2D, CFL, plus coloured, special-spectrum and miniature fluorescent tubes.
HQI/HCI, CDM-R ceramic metal halide, metal halide, high-pressure sodium, mercury vapour and coloured/special HID.
Drop-in LED for existing fittings: tubes, A60/GLS, GU10, MR16, candle, golfball, AR111, PAR, capsules and Linestra.
See LED Solutions →Complete LED fittings, downlights, panels and sports/flood luminaires, for new installs and full fitting swap-outs.
See LED Solutions →Filament & antique-style LED, G95 globes and decorative shapes for hospitality, retail and residential schemes.
See LED Solutions →LED drivers & transformers, electronic control gear, ballasts & ignitors, lamp holders and LED modules & flex.
UV-A/B specialist, germicidal TUV and TUV T5, plus UV-C disinfection fixtures for water, air and surface treatment.
Linear and reflector infrared / IR-halogen for industrial process heating, drying, catering and comfort heat.
Xenon projection, HMI & tungsten stage/studio discharge, photographic, parcans and projector lamps.
See Entertainment silo →Surgical, microscope, diagnostic, dental, endoscopy and OT/examination lamps, plus Rimsa theatre lights.
See Medical silo →Airfield, aircraft, automotive, traffic-signal, railway, locomotive, mining and marine, lighthouse, buoy & navigation.
Exposure, printing and reprographic lamps for graphic, plate-making and reproduction equipment.
Horticulture lamps, Fluence LED grow systems and aquarium/reptile sources for controlled-environment lighting.
See Horticulture silo →Sound-exciter and other niche legacy lamps. If it's odd, old or one-off, this is the desk that tracks it down.
Specialised lamps rarely live on a shelf: they live in a stadium roof, a runway edge, a factory bay, a hospital theatre or a reproduction house. A cross-section of the lamp technologies we stock, in the settings that depend on them. Manufacturer and reference images, indicative of the ranges we carry.
Radium · Metal halideStadium & sports floods
Osram · SurgicalOperating theatre lighting
Dr Fischer · MarineLighthouse & navigation
Dr Fischer · InfraredIndustrial process heat
Osram PURITEC · UV-CWater & pool disinfection
Osram XBO · XenonCinema projection
Radium · ConventionalRetail & commercial
Osram · Stage & studioTheatre & studio
Manufacturer application photography · Osram, Philips, Dr Fischer & Radium catalogues · indicative of the ranges we stock
No grey market, no mystery parallel imports. We carry original-equipment lamps direct from the manufacturers and their authorised channels, so the part you receive matches the datasheet, and the warranty actually holds.
Buying a common bulb online is easy. Finding the discontinued airfield lamp, matching an unmarked discharge tube, or keeping a 20-year-old fitting alive is not, and that's exactly where fifty years of part numbers and direct manufacturer lines earn their keep.
Send a photo, an old part code or a fitting description. We identify it, find the current equivalent, and tell you straight if it's truly obsolete, and what the best modern replacement is.
Conventional, technical, legacy and obsolete-replacement lamps across sixteen families: stocked in Cape Town, Joburg and Durban while your line keeps running.
Direct from Osram, Philips/Signify, Ushio, Radium, Dr Fischer, GE and the rest. The lamp matches the datasheet, and the warranty is real, no grey-market guesswork.
Every code is identified and sourced within one business day. In-stock lamps ship on the spot. Obsolete and hard-to-find references get a scoped sourcing plan with lead times, because fifty years of part numbers means we trace the exact lamp.
Holdings in CT, JHB and DBN with overnight courier countrywide. Bulk and standing-order supply for facilities and maintenance teams.
When a lamp is genuinely discontinued, we map the closest current equivalent and the retrofit path, so the fitting keeps working.
“We had forty different lamp types across the estate, half of them on dying fittings nobody had specced in years. The Lamphouse identified every one, set up a standing order, and now we don't think about it.”
A multi-site operator: mixed offices, a workshop, cold storage and an old-stock signage frontage, was losing days each month chasing replacements across three or four suppliers, and quietly running fittings dark because nobody could find the lamp.
We ran a full audit against the catalogue: identified each source by photo and fitting, flagged the genuinely obsolete ones with their best current equivalents, and consolidated the lot onto a single standing-supply schedule across HID, fluorescent, halogen and LED retrofit. One reference contact, one invoice, predictable stock.
The same approach scales down to a single hard-to-find lamp, or up to a national maintenance contract. Identify it once, supply it forever. Send us your part list →
Send the part number, the old lamp, or just a photo of the fitting. We'll identify it, source it or specify the best current equivalent, and tell you what's on the shelf. From a single obsolete globe to a national standing-supply contract, the process is the same.