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- From: habersch@husc11.harvard.edu (Oren Haber-Schaim)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Halogen light bulbs?
- Message-ID: <habersch.722055764@husc11>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 03:02:44 GMT
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- wales@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) writes:
- (on GTE bulbs)
- >According to the advertising on the box, the new bulb uses a tungsten/
- >halogen capsule (apparently similar to those used in cars) enclosed in
- >a second, outer glass bulb. The outer bulb glass is much thicker than
- >"normal" light bulbs, and the new bulbs are much heavier than usual.
-
- >I bought a few of these bulbs (at about $5 for a 100W bulb, they're on
- >the pricey side), and I must say I'm very pleased. The light is much
- >whiter than what you get from regular incandescent bulbs. According to
- >the box, the new bulbs are about 10% brighter than conventional bulbs
- >of similar wattage and are supposed to last about three times as long.
-
- >I've heard concerns about UV radiation from halogen lights, but I would
- >assume the thick outer glass bulb would absorb most of the UV.
-
- >Rich Wales <wales@CS.UCLA.EDU> // UCLA Computer Science Department
-
- You can have your whiteness or you can have your low-UV-ness.
- The whiteness comes from higher output in the short wavelength
- end of the spectrum, giving a stronger blue, and along with
- that, more of the neighboring ultraviolet.
-
- But not to worry: as you can tell from the box's information that
- you carefully noted, the Sylvania screw-in household halogen bulb
- makes the design tradeoff of using the halogen mainly to increase
- bulb life rather than to increase efficiency. It runs at only
- a slightly higher temperature so the efficiency and
- the whiteness and UV increase only a little.
-
- If you compared it to a brand new 100W bulb (not old, and not
- lower wattage), the difference in whiteness would be modest.
-
- If you are concerned about UV, stay away from sunlight and
- cool-white fluorescent bulbs!
-
- Oren Haber-Schaim (habersch@husc.harvard.edu)
-