General Electric 50 and 90 Watt Double Life Halogen Bulbs
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- A set of 4 unusual General Electric branded halogen light bulbs, in both 90 and 50 watts form factor.
The 90 watts bulb has an 'incandescent equivalence' to a 100 watts bulb, and the 50 watts bulb has an 'incandescent equivalents' of a 60 watts bulb. This is rather odd as it puts the efficiency of the 2 bulbs at completely different levels, as opposed to a linear relation like most other bulbs. The lumen ratings provided do put the bulbs on the higher end of the scale of what a typical 60 watts incandescent bulb produces.
The bulbs appear to be typical halogen bulbs in the sense that there's a small halogen capsule inside the outer glass that makes it look like a regular light bulb. The abnormality here is that the outer glass is extremely thick, it has a similar feel to a glass soda bottle.
As would be expected from halogen, the quality of light is excellent. No flicker, no harshness or glare, and proper color rendering. The lifespan of the bulbs is claimed to be 2,000 hours, which is about twice that of a typical halogen bulb.
I'm unsure of the age of actual manufacturer behind these bulbs, but I suspect they may have some age to them. - Věda a technologie
These are 80-90s bulbs when halogen replacements were a new thing. I remember being gifted these in the 90s as I wanted "halogen" bulbs. I had confused them with Mercury vapor lights.
I recall some halogen bulbs in the 2000s that were shaped and colored very much like the frosted mercury vapor bulbs. I haven't seen any of those bulbs in a very long time.
They were designed thick because of the capsule being pressurized and having the potential to explode so the thicker glass was to help contain a potential explosion. Those are from the late eighties early 90’s. My grandmother used them throughout her house because she liked the light output.
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These are definitely from the 1990s based on the packaging. “H070” looks like an Osram Sylvania date code, but I don’t think it’s one. I actually think these were made in Thorn factories. GE bought Thorn Lighting in November 1990. I think “11” and “14” on the bulbs are Thorn date codes. In this case (1990s), 11 is either… *November 1990* …or November 1998. 14 is either February 1991 or February 1999. Someone please confirm this, this is just speculation based on information I could find.
I think the reason for such thick glass is to protect against explosions. One major flaw of the modern A19 halogen bulbs is that they are prone to exploding. I think the thick glass here is meant to prevent the outer shell from being shattering if the internal halogen capsule explodes.
The reason that the soft white versions of the modern halogen A19 bulbs are so dim is because they are modified spectrum. The coating inside actually adjusts the light spectrum to make it warmer, filtering out some of the light in the process. Compare a clear version of the modern bulbs and they will be more comparable to the vintage GEs, around 750 lumens. It still seems like they used less than adequate capsules in the modern bulbs, since both the old GE 50w and modern 43w are around 17 lm/W, so there is no efficiency difference, just less light.
I was not aware of the explosion risk. That is quite unsettling, I know how thin the EcoSmart ones I usually use are. So far I haven't had any problems.
I used to have a halogen bulb with this shape. I think I bought it sometime in the mid 90s. The outer glass on it was also very thick but the glass on mine was clear with a kind of diamond pattern in it (not frosted). I had it for many years before losing track of it.
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Sylvania made a similar type of bulb, called the "Capsylite." And I remember seein' those in the 90s
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good video bro and i light the design of the lights they are super bright i enjoyed the video
Glad you enjoyed it bro.
5:42. My policy is to continue to use the remaining fluorescent lights we have in stock at the house. Once that stock is all used up, LEDs will be filling in those positions. The only exception is lamp fixtures where the ballast is separate from the bulb; in that case, the fixtures will persist until replacement fluorescent tubes are no longer available. But for the standard Edison base bulbs, any new purchases will only be LED. I feel like this approach is the least wasteful.
I will continue to use halogen and incandescent as I refuse a lighting apparatus that produces headaches.
@@JordanU Understandable. I do not experience any discomfort with LED lighting sources, so I'm perfectly content with using them.
I love it
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I have not seen a bulb that shape before.
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I like it
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Interesting shape i like it too bad we do not have non diode lighting in belgiun its mostly crap diode lighting although they are still selling fluorescent tube lights whats your opinion on the wattage difference between a low wattage CFL 15 watter and a incandescent 100 watter
A 15W CFL would probably not be able to replace a 100W incandescent. A 15W CFL is usually a 60W replacement.
A 15W CFL would definitely not equate to the lumen output of a standard 100W incandescent bulb.
I have 8 of these and they are heavy
They are very heavy.