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In article <57@deeptht.UUCP> spcecdt@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us (John DuBois) writes:
>In article <27836@mimsy.umd.edu> terry@brillig.cs.umd.edu (Terry Gaasterland) writes:
>+
>+Has anyone seen these new fangled indoor halogen lamps?  They've been
>+described to me: about 6 feet tall, point straight up (looking into one
>+of them can ruin your eyes), take bulbs of up to 500 watts, light up a
>+whole room well enough to read, with an analog dimmer to adjust the 

Just bought one yesterday.  It works great.  I can adjust it from
near-dark (muy romantico) to near-daylight (nothing beats daylight
in Phoenix...)

>+amount of wattage used, use less energy to light a room than a regular
>+incandescent bulb.

I doubt that.  The power is the same, and the light seems not to
be as strong as from a comparably powered standard incandescent.

But you're not going to find many 500W edisonian bulbs.  They
tend to evaporate their filaments.

>+I've been told that they are available by catalog and that some discount
>+houses sell them for about $40.00.  

Check out The Home Depot, if you're in the Southwest.
Hechinger's or Channel might have them, elsewhere.  I got
mine for $29.95, with a white enamel finish.  It sits where
my living room meets the den area.  The LR has a vaulted
ceiling which reflects the light obliquely, making it very
efficient.  The spillage into the den makes it the only
light I need in the apartment, outside the bedroom,
kitchen, and bathroom.

>power (500W), reflected off of a white ceiling, they seem to give about
>the same amount of light as a normal 150W incandescent bulb.  If your

Nah.  They're a lot better than that.  Your ceiling must be dirty.
Mine replaced a 250W bulb I was using in a table lamp, and beat
its luminescent butt.

They do provide a little direct lighting, too, through a heavily
frosted plate in the base of the reflector bowl.  The bowl is
really just a shade; the real reflector is inside it, closer to
the bulb.

Assembly is a pain; the cord runs through the tube, which
comes in three peices, and there are two more in the base
and bowl.  You have to rotate things backwards a few turns
before screwing them together, to keep from binding the
cord, which at this power could cause hot-spots.

>    Damark's price for replacement bulbs is $19 (with s/h) for two.  I don't
>know where you'd get replacements if they stopped selling them.

Almost anywhere, it seems.  These things look set to take
over the home-lighting industry.  They've already wiped out
both incandescents and fluorescents in the desktop lighting
niche.

				--Blair
				  "And when it turns on there's
				   an exhilirating 'zzzinnngggg'."