Timeline for How bright is a 150 W incandescent light bulb?
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| Jul 15, 2016 at 17:54 | comment | added | user95006 | The Mercury Vapor and Sodium Vapor (or HID) lamps are very bright. Probably wildly more efficient than enough LEDs to be that bright. More reliable also, if what I see is any indication. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 1:01 | comment | added | bmargulies | Why do you assume that he wants an unreliable, mercury-filled, slow-to-illuminate, CFL? I've learned the hard way to incandesce until I can get a replacement LED for the application. | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 21:09 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | 150W equivalent bulbs on amazon.co.uk. In the US higher wattage CFLs are also generally available in larger home improvement stores. | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 21:08 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @ColonelPanic you need to shop around more. Amazon has CFLs in the 2600-2800 lumen range; most of them run ~40W though. The potential gotcha is that they're noticeably larger than a standard incandescent bulb; and may not fit in fixtures that were designed to be barely big enough for a standard size incandescent. I believe the size constraint was why the US ban on incandescent bulbs stopped at the 100W size. | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 20:41 | comment | added | LDC3 | You could always buy a second lamp, that will increase the brightness (if it's not too far away). | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 20:35 | comment | added | Colonel Panic | Thanks. The brightest CFLs sold in shops here are 1400 lumens, so the future really isn't bright. | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 20:33 | vote | accept | Colonel Panic | ||
| Jan 18, 2015 at 19:17 | history | answered | LDC3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |