Yes, a lot of the light is wasted as heat. I don’t think incandescent lights is quite as wasteful as what we’re told. It’s annoying and seems backwards that they market this instead of pushing for high CRI LED. It’s a typical shaped A style bulbed being marketed for “enhanced spectrum” (is there low CRI halogen?) and “energy savings” (60 watt replacement uses only 43 watts). I guess I should have kept the halogen floor lights.Ĭontactcr wrote: I dont really understand it but last time I went to the hardware store there is a very prominent section for new halogen bulbs.
Most of my evening lighting is from tail-standing flashlights. Probably because we had overhead lights where we moved. I think I replaced the 300w bulb with a 500w, just for some extra brightness that certainly wasn’t needed.
Halogen floor lamp with dimmer full#
Dimmer controls on the lamp meant it was seldom used at full output. It wasn’t concentrated very much, and did provide good lighting to most of the room. The halogen floor lamps I use to have, used a big white metal reflector to spread the beam out to a large area on the ceiling. We have probably all tested our multiple thousand lumen flooder soda can style flashlights this way after all. I guess being one switch and having dimming makes it simple and doing it properly with multiple lights is infinitely more complex to retrofit. I still think blasting 6000 lumens into the corner/ceiling of a room, while effective, is probably not a very efficient way to do it. I dont remember it being poor light quality or anything but I think that says more about how effective ceiling bouncing light is to diffuse and fill a room. Could you do me a huge favor and take a picture of the top of the lamp, so I can see what’s in the shade?Ĭontactcr wrote: I did use one for a few years but it has been a long time. That lamp does look really interesting though, I haven’t seen one yet that goes that high. My thought is that it would be the same color temperature as the one you have. The grow bulb you linked – it says “sunlight white”, I can’t find the color temperature listed. Since we had to choose one bulb, that was the best, at least my preference. The current WindowLED floor lamp has a bulb that’s 2700K, which is what the most common warmest color fluorescent bulbs are. I use them more in the evening and night than during the day in fact. Halogen floor lamps change color temp tend to get something like maybe 1800-4000K, and they dimmed way below any floor lamp you’d buy today. The reason they do that is to get more brightness out of it, both because whiter LEDs can have higher lumens per watt, and also with how we perceive higher color temperatures as being brighter. Yeah, the natural color is a 5500K color temp, that’s terrible.
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