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I use two of the Damark 500W halogen floor lamps in my bedroom, one on each
side of the bed.  They are pretty bright, which is extremely important in a 
very large room with high ceilings made of medium-stained cedar planks.  They
are barely enough for my high-brightness taste, but that's not their fault.
One nice thing about halogen lamps compared to regular incandescents is, when
you turn them down on a dimmer, they don't "sing" at you.  60 Hz filament
vibration is a real problem with high wattage incandescents on a dimmer.

A word about Damark:  They stink!  After a few unrelated purchases, I'm
convinced that everything they sell is defective in some way, but works.  The
roller skates had sock-liners that were smaller than the shoe size; the CDs
were misrepresented and not especially well recorded; the planters didn't
exist and a refund was promised; the cordless phone had extremely limited
range; and then there's these lamps.  

They have a rotating dimmer switch.  One of them, when you turn it on, comes 
on medium-bright and goes up from there.  The other, after the click, is still 
off.  If you turn it up quite a bit, it comes on, medium-bright.  Then you can 
turn it down some if you'd like a softer light.  One of them has a slightly 
bent (metal) top so there's a bright band that escapes around its edge onto 
the far wall.  If I hadn't been so busy at work, I'd have returned the skates 
and the CDs; the lamps were enough of a bargain and pleasant enough visually 
that I actually decided to keep them despite the faults.  Though I'm glad I 
bought them because I have an economical bent, their quality is far below that 
of anything else I put in the house.  

If you buy these particular lamps, fine.  But don't become a regular customer
of Damark or you'll be sorry!
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