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Halogen Light Bulbs Types and Styles

Pick energy- and cost-efficient halogen light bulbs for your business or factory lighting needs

By Deneatra Harmon
Halogen light bulbs serve as efficient lighting alternatives to incandescent light bulbs. Halogen lamps can be installed indoors and outdoors, and their soft white lighting quality makes them a popular choice for commercial or industrial businesses. Other benefits to installing a halogen light source include compact sizes that save energy and longer burn life. Plus, halogen light bulbs are easier on the eyes if reading is one of your daily tasks.

Choose halogen light bulbs types and styles such as A-lines or parabolic aluminized reflectors (PAR). Standard A-line, or A-shaped halogen bulbs, are available in clear or white colors. PAR halogen light bulbs, or flood lights, can be used as spotlights or as accent lighting. PAR halogen lights come in clear and white colors, as well as red, blue, amber, pink, green and yellow colors for events. J-type halogen light fixtures are tube-shaped bulbs suitable for factory, office or supermarket lighting. Miniature MR halogen bulbs provide daylight-quality lighting for product displays.

1. Pick halogen light bulbs based on voltage and power ratings.

2. Decide on the wattage you'll need to light rooms with halogen light bulbs.

3. Choose from parabolic aluminized reflectors (PAR), A-Line halogen light bulbs and other types of halogen lights.

 

Shop for halogen light bulbs based on voltage power

Specifications for energy efficient halogen light bulbs include average lifespan, or light use, of 3,500 hours, and voltages ranging from 12 to 120 volts.
Try: Welch-Allyn Lighting distributes halogen lamps and halogen light bulbs to the industrial, dental and medical industries. Find high- and low-voltage halogen lighting at The Specialty Bulb Co.

Choose the number of watts you will need for halogen light bulbs

Halogen lighting quality must be suitable to your business and event settings. Halogen lamp bulb wattage generally ranges from 5 watts to 1,000 watts.
Try: Shokai Far East distributes halogen light fixtures suitable for automotive and other applications. Halogen light bulb distributor First Light Lighting Systems features brand-name halogen bulbs that range from 45 watts to 90 watts.

Pick from several designs of halogen bulbs

Types of halogen bulbs vary depending on room design, as well as business applications. Ball-shaped, floodlight-style and tubular are among the common shapes for halogen light fixtures.
Try: Lamp Technology stocks halogen lamps with bayonet and candelabra base styles. North American Signal stocks dome lights and halogen replacement light bulbs that flash or rotate for warning purposes. Light Bulbs Etc. lists its product line of halogen light fixtures according to shapes such as flood, J-type and MR-type bulbs.

 

  • Halogen bulbs are made of gases such as xenon, krypton, iodine and bromine. Manufacturers use these gases with the production of light filaments, which allow the halogen light bulbs to operate at high temperatures while providing efficiency.

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