Instant heat from an interesting linear heat lamp
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2023
- Although aimed at the catering industry, this style of heat light would be good for cold workshops and garages which are often impractical to heat. It gives a rich golden light and literally instant heat as soon as it is turned on, due to its strong infrared component that heats you in the same way as sunshine.
Note that this assembly is intended for use in an enclosed rail system, and the holder does have bare exposed electrical contacts at the end. That makes it less suitable for use as a bare unit. It really does need a suitable heat-proof enclosure.
It may be possible to use the lamp in a suitably sized halogen floodlight housing, noting that the lamps are available in differing lengths. 118mm is a very standard size.
It's designed for an open fronted enclosure, so I'm not sure it would be ideal to have it in a glass fronted one - especially as it is optimised for heat generation.
For a more complete package you could use a chicken coop heat light which uses a ceramic Edison screw base in an aluminium reflector, or you could use one of the outdoor patio style halogen heat units.
For many years I enjoyed having a 500W halogen light above my workbench, which was a very useful source of light and felt like sunshine in the winter months. Way too hot in summer though.
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Ah, one of those heat lamps used by places with a carvery to make sure that the Yorkshire Puddings are nice and hard and can be used as hammers and the outer skin of roast potatoes can be used as a leather substitute.
mmmmmmm nice roasted spuds that take the skin off the roof of your mouth. 😘👌 👍👍
leather subistutte....- sorry i cant write, alck of air
You forgot to mention turning the vegetables into galvanised rubber that can’t be chewed along with the gravy that needs to be hit by the Yorkshire Hammer Pudding to break the 2 inch layer of solidified gloop
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And pies can attain temperatures only found in experimental fusion reactors
@@PaulG.x ice cold on the outside, still piping hot on the inside, somehow.
Russia banned incandescent lamps 9 years ago, but they still available in store as "heating device" or "heating element". You are walking in home depot or supermarket, shelves contain illegal incandescent lamps, but text on package says:"Heating element 800 lumen".
Radiant heat is underrated.
As a hotel maintenance worker I would say we get about 6-8 months out of these lamps, but they do get a pounding, on about 10hrs a day. Changed 3 of them this very morning. One of the maintenance team must have touched one of the lamps with his grubby little fingers because the chef said it exploded in quite spectacular fashion.
Here in Norway they instead use the IR lamps with thick steel element that glows deep red, they last forever even if you leave them on 24/7 for years... But they take a few minutes to heat up.
My school kitchen uses 8 of the 250 Watt clear ES screw heat lamp. I don’t generally get 1000 hours life out of them, but interestingly the adhesive bond between the ES cap and glass fails before the the filament fails. This results in the lamp wobbling in the holder, so I replace them when they become loose to prevent the glass envelope falling into the food.
I've successfully used Gorilla Glue to reattach loose lamp caps. Use it sparingly though, it expands a LOT as it cures 😁
Same thing happens to the SES bulbs in my microwave!
Try buying quality branded lamps such as Victory Lighting as these are manufactured with the correct adhesive/cement which doesn't,t degrade over time. Cheaper brands and Chinese imports use standard cement and sometimes do not even have toughened glass.
I was thinking of that as Clive got it in to view.. #nasty
@@nickdavies5688
I get them from CEF, as we have an account with them.
I have a 250W chicken lamp in my bath. Works perfectly to heat the toilet seat in winter.
1.) All glass bulbs need to be protected against shuttering in the food industry. Neon tubes have a plastic tube around or a plastic shield under it.
2.) What you called the "chicken pen type" lamp was exactly what was used in East Germany as "Rotlicht" or IR heater for your nose and ear when you had an internal infection.
"Fun" fact: there were still very few apartments in East Germany with an external toilet until the 1980's, usually ½ floor up or down with a door from the staircase. As there were no ovens or central heating in these toilets these lamps were used 24/7 during wintertime instead of the regular illumination as a protection against freezing and destruction of the water installation. 🤪
Actually in the food industry you should use enclosed IP68 lamps, However I have replaced all 500 in the factory with LED so no longer a problem. Payed for themselves on 6 months.
Can you elaborate a little bit more on the nose and ear infrared heater? I tried to google but found nothing. Is this just a small miniature bulb you stuck in your nose/ear?
@@eugeneputin1858 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrarot-Behandlung
It "liquifies" the residue in the paranasal sinuses & Co.
@@eugeneputin1858 I was just going to say that Philips sold similar things in the west then found that the picture on the Wikipedia page is of a Philips lamp.
@@MrDunclpretty sure my grandmother had the exact Philips model pictured in the wiki page.
I remember, back in the day when some bathrooms had the lovely red heat lamps. I really miss that! Something about that red light just felt so nice to bask in while sitting in the tub. The 70ies got SOME things right!
you can still see those in the US in some of the cheaper hotel bathrooms. especially in colder climates. so old, usually hooked up to a self timer, right?
That is different 'tech', a tubular (coil) heater element or made of (flat bar) nichrome
Here in Norway it is still normal to have one of those IR heaters in the bathroom. I even mounted one in my box van camper to get quick heat when I need it. They sell them everywhere here.
I still use one in my bathroom today that was installed in 75,, I've only replaced the bulb once 8 years ago.
The wife and I stayed at an older model in Amarillo on our way to Dallas for Thanksgiving. It had one of those old radiant heat bulbs. I turned that puppy on and basked in the glory of its warmth. Gotta love how water absorbs infrared light, and the fact we're mostly water. I didn't even turn on the main light for illumination. The warm, mellow vibes were just what I needed after 10 hours on the road.
This is why I miss when you could easily find the 500W halogen work lights, cause in the winter when the weather's cold and you're leaving for work before dawn and getting home at dusk, wrenching on the car in the driveway is an exercise in cold fingers and frustration. Having a hot, bright halogen flood that both keeps you well-lit AND warm is far superior to the newer, colder LED work lights and I'm personally just glad I still have one of them that's not gotten broken or lost yet.
Harbor Freight still has the 500 watt halogens for sale. They also have replacement 500 watt bulbs.
Here in Gothenburg, the insurance company Skandia built an office with no heating. All the heating came from keeping the lamps on 24/7. They then switched to fluorescent tubes...
I hear ya on 500W Lamps and working on your ride in the cold. It makes it almost enjoyable to be wrenching on your ride in the elements. Did it in the snow once and I have to admit, I felt quite well while doing so one winter where it snowed in Portland , Oregon.
When I see the 500W lights on sale, I purchase them! My favorites are those Double 500W Jobbies with the stand. Sure the LED type are amazing at light output. But the warmth and what seems like better color rendition while working on my car outside sure seem to win out at least with my eyes!
And if your hands get a bit cold as mine most often do? Its such a joy to just put your hands on the lamp body or in front of the lamp and get a warm up to get right back to what you were doing.
One day However? I REALLY want a Nice big shop to work in.
@@MickeyMishra Yea, I love how much warmth those things put out and while the LEDs are great in the summer time, in the winter it's either using the halogens or having to go buy kerosene for the radiant heater. Great thing about the halogens too is, if you need to work UNDER the car, you can just take a big tarp and throw it over the vehicle to make your own little heated tent!
Here in Italy they are easily found... for cheap.
We used to use 2 500w floodlamps for warming up the inside of a 8' x 10' container modified to house a TrackStar machine for butt fusion welding MDPE / HDPE pipes for cross country water pipelines. The TrackStar did the actual heating for the welds but having a bit of ambient heat made the process more reliable and better for the operators.
Why would you want to fuse your butt to another butt?
@@Dime_Bar C'mon, we don't judge here. chuckle
@@Dime_BarYou obviously don't know how to have a good time, but I hope you have a merry 25th of December.
Is the world coming to an end? Clive enjoying the heat.😜
Way back in the 60s my dad had installed a dual lamp fixture over the sink and during the Northern Wisconsin winters, he would unscrew one of the standard lamps and screw in the heat lamp. We used it to warm up the bathroom before us kids would take our weekly baths.
It's good to have an old halogen lamp like that in the workshop for heating epoxy up to help cure it when it's cold.
Congratulations on the 1M+ subscribers. Your channel well deserves it! I find it very interesting and learnt quite a bit of new things. Keep your professional videos coming. I will tell my engineering friends about this cool channel.
I remember those red heat bulbs being in many bathrooms in the 70/80s, before we all had central heating and double glazing as standard, it was a godsend when getting ready for school in winter mornings before the living-room coal fire had a chance to heat the house or water, I used to get changed under it!
What country didn't have central heating in the 70s/80s or at least oil or gas heaters?
@@rogerwilco2 Central heat/air started becoming commonplace in the 70s/80s. Most older homes would not have had it.
@@rogerwilco2the UK for a start! I'm 35 and even I can remember houses without any central heating into the early 1990s.
Still have one in my 1985 house, in the only un-remodeled bathroom.
@@rogerwilco2 Neither of the 1980s built houses I bought here in the U.K. were built with central heating. In the 1984 built one, I bought an electric cooker so didn't have to pay a standing charge on the gas.
Of course back then a 23 year old on an average salary could actually afford a new house, even if they couldn't afford one with central heating.
I bought a 600W flat panel IR heater this year, as it has the ability to heat up solid things like tables, walls and, er, me, without heating up the air. I'd quite like being warm but not having cooler air around me.
Philips Infraphil comes to mind, generations have used this wonderlamp in case of musclepain. I’ve stil got an authentic and a new one!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I made a PCB preheater using 4 standard halogen 500 W linear lamps, wired two in series, some stainless steel mesh and a standard triac dimmer. Putting two in series makes them give out more heat than light.
It is really helpful for desoldering and soldering PCBs with huge ground planes, as well as for hot-air (de)soldering of SMD/BGA.
I have a clear version of the 250-watt chicken coop heat lamp, over my living room recliner (in a suitable lamp holder). It is indeed wonderful to have a glow of heat instantly available, on a day like today when it's 20 degrees F and snowing and blowing. Merry Christmas.
Last time I tried to make an instant heat lamp shaped like that I ended up on a list.... 💥
Highly efficient, I have the screw in red bulb type outside of the shower in a dry off area, they are warm indeed. Only issue with IR heating is you cannot stare at the light directly or semi-directly too long because of the retina pressure increasing, same goes for most IR sources or so they say
I replace these on a Daily basis, I'm a Catering engineer for the Biggest Catering equipment service provider in Northern Ireland 😊. It really annoys me when I arrive at gantry jobs and find that people have stuck normal 500w flood light halogens from Band Q in their gantrys 😂😂😂. PS. As for the lifespan, on most occasions, the lamp itself out lasts the lamp holder, as the contacts in the holder seem to always burn out, thus burning out the end of the lamp. Also, staff have a good habit of hitting the lamps with Gastronom container lids and smashing them into the food, rendering the food unfit for human consumption 😂😂😂
our old house had one of those regular flood light 'chicken coop' lamps in an outdoor flood light socket in our bathroom, the bulb lasted from before we moved in until we moved out which was 17 years, and it went with the house. I imagine it's still there to this day.
The big bublb with red filter was traditionally used in medical "infra red" lamps for heating joints and various aching body parts. To this day I am using an ancient Czechoslovakian SAHARA lamp for heating my sinuses in winter. Needless to say, it is a life saver for me. There is nothing better.
As a kid, i remember some hotels with the heating lamps in the bathroom ceiling. I still keep one in a clamp on light for paint drying.
I absolutely adore heat lamps; Having one over a freezing work bench is quite the luxury!
Water absorbs infrared light, and we're mostly water. If you have a thermal camera, and stick your hand into a bowl of water, your hand will disappear completely. It's a match made in heaven. Toasty and cozy.
Don't worry about the outer glass. I've fitted hundreds of these things. The outer glass never breaks! On some of the reflectors you need to nibble them out to make them fit.
1:49 Same here. The heat radiated by a halogen light comes second to sunlight. 👍
Thanks for all the effort you put into providing content for us. All the best for the Silly Season from Australia!
The Reflective heat lamps are still very common here in Australian bathrooms with a clear glass front. Most Aussie bathrooms have a combination heat / light / fan unit in the centre of the ceiling with a corresponding three gang switch mounted on the bathroom wall.
We refer to them as IXL’s here in the trade but they are a great solution for heating up the tiled area on a cold morning, as central heating doesn’t exist here like it does in the colder countries.
We had one of those infra red spotlights in our bathroom when I was a kid, the clear glass version not red.
It was ideal when you gout out of the bath on a winter's evening !
Wish I had seen your video before replacing the halogen bulb in my car headlight. Got skin oil from my fingers on it which later made it explode, and I had scattered glass all over inside my headlight assembly. Learnt something new today.👍
It's a mistake you didn't want to make the first time, and the result tends to make you remember for the next.
@@tbelding Correct. However, my new car has now insanely complex LED headlights, with build in servo motors, autoleveling, CAN bus connection to BCU, microcontroller, and they even follow when you steer towards left or right. They are highly overdriven e.g. super blinding bright (I guess) with heat sink and small fans blowing on rear side of assembly. Whole headlight is over-moulded shut, non-serviceable, and if something fails you need to replace it with a complete new headlight, which is over $2,000 for the headlight part alone plus labor to install and re-program. Engineering going too far! 🤯 Best thing is the claim, “lasts for life time of the car” Guess it depends how you define life time? 3 years after warranty is over? 😂🤑 If one fails, I will send it in a package to Mr. Clive who surely will have a blast breaking it open and reverse engineer all the electronics, drivers and actuators inside. Cheers, Marco
@@V8-friendly - keep the paperwork with that claim on it. If it doesn't have a rider saying what that is, it's at a minimum, the time in which you own it (first owner).
@@V8-friendly I seem to remember that he did that with a $1500 Tesla headlight unit. Turned out it was the electronics control unit that failed due to water getting in, and not the light itself.
Me, I just put in a new bulb (about £5 each) when a headlight stops working.
Thanks for this valuable information!
I had a client that needed to temper the edge of a steel strip in a process.
We used five 500W Halogen bulbs, one along the edge followed by two above and two below. We could get the edge of the thin strip to 1100F (600C) in a few seconds.
And control was easy.
I work in a catering company that pretty much deals with these daily. Bain Maries use them for downlighting onto the main well and honestly they’re just my favourite thing to maintain. The simplicity of the wiring and how it all works means that when a call comes in for a “total rewire of the unit” I’m moreso looking forward to doing it, than locking myself in the back of the van hiding until someone else claims the call 🤣
We've had one of these "chicken coop" lamps in a simple desk stand base for as long as I can remember. The amount of heat that thing can radiate is immense (together with a lot of visible red light), and it's quite effective for muscle pain or when your (inner) ear hurts/is infected. But (as others already mentioned) you shouldn't look directly into the beam.
I remember the old infrared bathroom lamps, and BOY did those things emit the heat. They weren't very bright, but emit the heat they DID.
@NiyaKouya
What can happen if I look at the beam ?
If it worse than a white reflector bulb ?
I'm currently staying warm in front of my computer by having a 100W chicken coop-type bulb in an anglepoise-type lamp above my knees and whilst it's shining downwards some red light still gets to my face through the vent holes at the back of the shade.
It it harmful though ?
@@psirvent8 I'm not a doctor, so I can't say if it has any negative effects on your eyes. I just know that our 150W lamp (which is most likely 30+ years old and maybe not as "efficient" as modern lamps) emits a lot of visible red light, so bright that it's uncomfortable to look at it for more than a second.
@@NiyaKouyaOk thank's.
4:25 In my 1970s childhood my parents had an "Infraphil" heat lamp resembling this, though in a nice adjustable mount. It was supposed to help muscle pain but I don't remember it being very useful, and a hot water bottle was much easier to set up.
You can still buy these. They were often referred to as an Infrared lamp. I have one of these. I'm not sure if the colour actually serves a purpose but the things work very well when you have muscle pain.
@@Ni5ei It may be that the "colour" is actually a coating that absorbs the visible light and re-radiates it as infra-red. Usually the infra-red light from an incandescent filament is the waste and the visible light the useful product, but here it's the other way round!
@@zh84i guess the red paint ist mostly for not blinding the customers when using it and also blinding them to buy an overpriced "special" lamp. Normal reflector bulbs were available much cheaper back then and would have done the job, too. Regular bulbs already emit 95% infrared.
Those lamps are ideal to use in your face If you suffer from a Sinusitis. In most other cases a hot bottle is way more efficient.
I've got one of the Infraphil lamps, it works very well. The colour is simply to reduce the amount of visible light, it's the heat you want in this application.
These are great when you have a bad cold and your nose is shut and you have headaches.
We use edison base clear glass heat lamps for near-sunlight illumination and radiant warmth during winter...a great way to beat winter blues.
How different are they from regular incandescents though ?
Do they produce more heat ?
I feel a home brewed reflow oven might now be on the cards. Thanks Clive.
to answer your question yes, I used 500W incandescent worklights when i work outdoors for this reason, an absolute godsend in winter.
4:53 “A very efficient way of workshop heating”
With a red glow being emitted it is a very efficient way of something else as well 😉
Happy festivities Clive 🎄
Increibles reviews!!me encantan!!! pero yo no tenia ni idea de que eran lamparas dedicadas especificamente a la cocina!!! hay que ser honestos, cualquier cosa que iluminen las halógenas siempre siempre se ve más atractivo que con cualquier otra fuente de luz..genial video
@ 4:44 Ah the good old Infra Rubin (This is how we call these lights in my counry where I came from) We used to get Sinusitis cured just switch on the light bulb close your eyes and sit in front of it facing the light from about a feet away from your face. It really helped me through some nasty sinusitis in my childhood.
When I was young we used the red lamp in bed rooms over top of the bed for heat because the wood stove would go out overnight, I find it funny we are not allowed to have the old 100 w lights now because LED's use less power but we can put 1500 watt heaters in each room, Id rather just have 20 of the 60w bulbs giving heat and light all winter over a heater that causes so many house fires today,
The problem comes in summer when someone puts the lights and air conditioning on at the same time.
p.s. 100W is nothing. A house I rented had 400W in the bedroom. Eight ceiling mounted GU10 spots. Most of the heat probably went into the loft !
For those of you using these in mobile carvery type catering cupboards get longer life from your lamps by training staff not to move the units until the lamps have been allowed to cool as rolling the cabinets whilst the lamps are still warm can cause mechanical damage to the filament. Oh, and always have an RCD or RCBO upstream as one lamp end cap is live when changing lamps unless you isolate and/or turn off the gantry and in a manic kitchen the isolation process can easily be overlooked.
In theatre, if we didn't have gloves on, we changed lamps while holding the lamp in a cloth rag. Not really much risk of shock there, and it kept you from oiling up the bulb, which could cause a rather exciting explosion in a Leko, which you didn't want to happen 30 feet above the audience.
I'm a catering engineer, work with these all the time! you can still get the 500Watt lamps too for now at least. And you can also still get the non-jacketed lamps too but we try and avoid using them these days because they don't last as long and as you mention the risk of glass in food should they shatter which they sometimes do.
Thank you Clive for another fascinating video. Greetings of the season to you, and congratulations on hitting the 1 million mark. Very well deserved for all your hard work.
This sort of thing is VERY useful for us chicken coop owners. On the VERY FEW evenings when it gets a bit chilly, these IR lights are excellent for "quickly warming up the girls" ready for bed-time (we also use the very traditional very low power tubular heaters to keep the coop cosy overnight).
Infrared heat is fantastic.
Thanks as always and Merry Christmas, all the best to you and yours.
We raise chickens for our own consumption; we used a simple 40w tungsten bulb as an economic way of keeping newly-hatched chicks warm. That is, until some meddlesome ne'er-o-well in Brussels decided that it was a threat to the ozone layer.
That would be nice to mount over a garage bench, seems like cold fingers are the worst complaint from trying to do anything out there.
Thanks for showing this lamp, never had a close look at this type of lamp.
Clive will be getting his 1M subs Play Button soon then! Well Deserved Clive.
Already got it. It's quite chunky.
Season's greetings Clive. Last thing we want now in the antipodes. Trying to escape the +30c heat.
For the UV it's funny how the 850W linear bulb that I got off a laser printer gave me eyestrain every time it was switched on whilst 500W bulbs made for general lighting didn't even when used without any glass cover in front of them.
At the time I assumed that it must be because of doped quartz however I found out later that pretty much no linear halogen bulb is made from doped quartz unlike the bi pin capsules.
I found that by shining a blacklight on them and the ones made from doped quartz will glow blue while the others won't glow at all.
This also applies to some metal halide lamps by the way.
Now to the red chicken coop reflector bulbs, I alway thought they were simply incandescent bulbs with a red tinted glass, however aren't they instead slightly under-run to maximise IR production like with the kitchen halogen one ?
Thank you! Happy Holidays from the U.S.!!!
Have A Wonderful Christmas!! Your Videos Are always Great!!
Here Japan they a Halogen bulb in a enclosure with a fan under the kotatsu like a coffee table with a thick type blanket you kinda slide your legs under the table very warm!
You said it protects from grease splashes, so it should be ok to touch the glass, my guess is that it's borosilicate
The inner glass is quartz, the outer could just be soda lime glass because the heating is pretty even, but as it goes over food typically it probably is borosilicate to be safer. You can touch the outer glass when it's cold, yes.
You should check out an old fuser lamp from an old laser printer. Before they used induction heating like many do now they used lamps to heat the fusing unit to melt toner into the paper. Pretty neat lamps. Not bright but a ton of heat. Sharp used to use them. I used to have a couple 1100w and probably higher on high end production machines. Was an MFP tech in a past life...
Yes, great long things, they were still being used in Xerox copiers as recently as 2012.
When I was a kid we had one of those large heat lamps fitted in our bathroom, I think the fitting was purchased from the M.E.B. showroom (Midlands Electricity Board) and sold has a bathroom heater, in those happy days when you were "allowed" to have 3 coal fires in the house.
Yo Ho Ho, Happy Christmas, Big Clive.
Oh man... That looks so cozy-toasty. A couple of those above my keyboard when I'm sitting at my compooter desk banging around on the keyboard doing Very Important Keyboardy Stuff (... Playing video games) would be fantastic in wintertime!
Wait, wasn't there a 'HeatBuff' thing people came up with for that kind of thing? Seems like this could do the trick with off-the-shelf catering kit.
Seasons greetings from Merseyside Big Clive; one mill is brilliant!!! Cheers Bud👏👏👍
Just noticed you crossed 1 million subscribers - congrats!
Hi Clive. A very Merry Christmas to you. Bring on 2024!
I remember old soviet/community heaters running on quartz lamps. Those were i believer tungsten wires coiled inse quartz tube? not quite sure, pretty sure those very quite brittle, but the heat they gave a way was immense.
Ah, the old heat lamps bring back fond memories of my childhood. They lasted for years when they were given a chance, but not in our house. The repeated Fairy Liquid bottle skooshy water fights between me and my mates saw to that.
Great for battle sound effects, though.
I am fascinated by heat lamps. We have an old heat lamp that still works. It uses a large standard floodlight bulb. Instant heat when switched on. (Like your chicken coop light). It was bought from a drug store 50 years ago for heat therapy.
We used to use the red 'traditional' one to heat a chilly downstairs wc - it gave off a nice lot of warmth but the feeling of sitting on the throne in a red room was off-putting to say the least!!
Devitrification. I'd never heard of that before. Every day's a school day, thank you!
One of those yellow construction site lamps heats up the space under a vehicle really well.
When I worked at an English Heritage site the huge (ancient, all stone) kitchen-cum-café had no heating whatsoever. They had two things very high up on the wall (maybe 4m up) that looked like the standard single-element 'chip shop' fly killers but when turned on they had barely any glow, just a faint very deep red and no visible element. However, wherever you were in the room (and I'm talking at least 10m x 10m) it felt like you were under the Moroccan sun. You came out feeling like you'd been in a sauna. I've never been able to find any devices quite the same; I presume they were quartz-tubed doobries but it was near three decades ago and technology has changed rapidly. 😅
quartz tubes have a bright glow, dim ones are metal IR tubes
Both the red and clear I/R lamps were, some years ago, available in “ hard glass “ versions, meaning they were safer to use over food ( from memory made by all lamp manufacturers I.e. Osram/ Philips / Mazda etc ). “ Soft “ , I.e. standard types were, as Clive said, in farms and chicken rearing barn, though for all I know may still be in use. I am happy to be corrected if anyone has a better memory! The home infrared tanning lamps ( “ Infraphil “ and the like used, again from memory, 275w red hard glass type.
Yes the contacts inside the holders burn out more frequently than the actual filament. Changed quite a few of them, the contacts inside the holder are a convex knob of some sort of special metal, and the lamp ends have silly little concave cups which supposed to perfectly fit the knobs in the holder. They often do not make good contact not matter how carefully you fit them, so the contacts overheat, fuse and burn off, ruining the contacts in the holder, and often also the contacts on the lamp. I think the springy metal inside the holder also plays its part, its supposed to clamp hard onto the lamp to make good contact, but the spring gets way too hot and loses its springiness (you can see the blue discolouration), so the contacts make an even weaker connection to the lamp.
That's always been the curse of the classic halogen floodlights.
In America we have heat lamps in some bathrooms with showers
Very nice light. Really want to get some. Having one on my homemade junk boat would be nice. Merry christmas!
In order to have warm feet when I sit at my table in the cold season without having to heat up the entire apartment, I built an infrared heater myself: from two small halogen floodlight lamps arranged one above the other, each with a 400 watt halogen tube, which I used connected together in series and controlled with a dimmer as required. At 230 volts, the heating lamp consumes around 230 watts. Usually 150 volts is enough, i.e. 75 volts per halogen tube. Thanks to this low voltage and the soft start of the dimmer, I expect the halogen tubes to last forever.
In fact halogen lamps degrade faster when underrun, the halogen process that prevents the quartz envelope from blackening doesn't work at lower temperatures than normal operation.
@@cambridgemart2075 Yes that is correct. The halogen (iodine) contained in trace amounts in the halogen lamp reacts (together with water molecules) with the sublimated tungsten deposited on the glass to form a volatile compound that breaks down in the heat near the filament and deposits tungsten back onto the filament - that is a circular process. To do this, the glass must be at least 250 degrees Celsius.
My halogen lamps for warming with light are connected in series; when the electronic dimmer is set to 100 percent, they are operated with a maximum of half the nominal voltage. At half voltage, practically no tungsten is sublimated (a lamp like this burns “forever”), so the halogen cycle plays no role here.
My two halogen tubes now have an estimated 2,200 operating hours and show no blackening whatsoever. Most likely because practically no tungsten evaporates at half the nominal voltage, or because the lamp bulb temperature still rises to over 250 degrees Celsius.
If any blackening were to occur, it could simply be removed by briefly operating it at the nominal voltage - no problem.
@@Tag-Traeumer Thank you, very enlightening.
I work in that industry and many customers purchase the cheaper light bulbs instead of dedicated catering heat bulbs. Not all gantry type bulbs are double glass so it is slightly difficult to tell the difference. The element wires are slightly thicker then the light type and there seems more heat then light unlike light bulbs. Also light bulbs aren’t designed for continual use so don’t tend to last as long as heat catering bulbs.
Great lamp I was thinking could you do reflowing circuit boards ? Thanks Clive
And have a great Christmas and all the best for 2024 😊
Merry Christmas Big Clive. You should combine that with the rotating motor from a couple videos back and put it on top of your Christmas Tree. LOL
That second red heat lamp is of the cheaper variety. Used these in hotel bathrooms in the 70’s to heat the area just outside of the bathtub and yes we had quit a few go bang. Turns out people would shake their hair and send water droplets everywhere thus hitting the lamp. This was way before the advent of safety screens on these fixtures. What I prefer are the industrial PAR lamps made of the heavy glass. They are designed to be more resistant to shattering when hit by water. They are quite similar to the outdoor flood lamps used in the states that have no protective shrouds.
those 'blinder arrays' do emit quite some heat too before and after the brightness peak. sometimes you could even feel it standing in the crowd. if we already pull out the entertainment industry 😊
i could imagine a blinder array at 1/2 to 2/3 of it's usual voltage (or two in series for that matter) with their narrow beam as a workheaterlight in the shop aimed at you. no more freezing the cucumber off !
Hahaha This brough back great memories of working as a chef. I will tell you this, you can set fire to a staff member's food order ticket in a single touch to these lights. Note this was done for a joke and when they ordered chips they knew I would add treats under them, Scampi, SF chicken and so on. lol so I was not being mean, but the look on their face was priceless!
The 250w heat lamp was used extensively in the UK as a bathroom heater before central heating, it kept the electrical trade busy changing all the baton holders that burned out !
Fusion rollers in laser-printers use a long, slender version of this lamp.
Eaxctly and a few years ago I got one of them out of its rubber-coated metal tube and powered it up, however it immediately made my eyes hurt, most likely from the UV.
I thought that halogen lamps made for general lighting were UV-filtered while the ones made for printers weren't, however I found later that whilst some bi-pin capsules actually are, the linear ones from 100 to 500W on the other end never are even though they're designed to be used in rooms full of people nevertheless.
I know by having shone a blacklight at some halogen bulbs and the ones that had a UV filter did glow a nice blue while the others did not glow at all.
I therefore wonder how the 500W bulbs never caused me any eye strain or other issue while the 850W one from the printer absolutely did.
So much so that I ended up smashing it so I wouldn't get tempted to fire it up and damage my eyes even more every time.
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Nice. That would be lovely in our carport - which is completely weatherproofed - we have a workbench there to fix bikes, etc., and on a cold day, that would be perfect. One of those would also be nice in the shed, I reckon. You probably wouldn't have to have it on for long, either. Thanks. 👍👍👍
Now, if we could get a super efficient LED version, we'd be in business!
Just joking of course. Merry Christmas Clive!!
Merry Christmas !Rewired many a heat lamp assembly .Remember the rules for continuous duty !I use #12 for 2 250 watt halogen infra red heat lamps .And I replace all the cords with SOOW .The oils in food services destroy the rubber on the cabtire cable
it can be used fot desoldering parts. very handy, you cat put it upside down and then an pcboard on top of it and in a couple of seconds you can took off parts just with a tweezers
We have those on the hotplates at work- can confirm they put out a fair amount of light and a poop-ton of heat; hot enough to crack plates if stacked too high under the lamp and hot enough to light oven cloths on fire if they are draped over something under the lamp. Nice in the winter for sure... :D
My mum had one of those "chicken coop" bulbs in a heavy duty desktop lamp. she used it try to help with pain. It was quite toasty.
your videos are soo good man thanks for good videos like this
I have used a portch heater, or heat lamp in FOH on ouside jobs this december, -14c out, but could still run the lights with just holding my hands up to it now and then, on the warmer days it was abselutely amazing.
They're absolutely wonderful for that, I wouldn't be able to get through winter without these! I've got a whole stockpile of 120v 250w red heat lamps that were just banned here, the kind we used to put in bathroom ceilings over the shower and hanging buffet swags (Edison style base, more on that in a sec). Rarely gets cold enough to turn the heat on in my area (typical winter day is between 35f-55f outside) so 250w directly on me vs 1500+ across the room, they're just indispensable. It's like a heat projector without all the wasted electricity or too much light. Like I was saying I use the red screw in type because I like the dark deep red light (not too bright), the heat is just right, the color helps with Seasonal Affectice, and I can run them in my cheap bendy arm floor lamp sitting behind the couch at just the right angle on me and never get cold. Not sure these ones are available in the UK, but the concept is absolutely spot on. Saves a LOT on the light bill and my bones don't hurt 🤣
Tractor Supply Company still has them on the shelf. Ask for "brooder" lamps. They cost about half as much there as at Walmart and give off some heat at half voltage if, like Clive, you're into making things last a very long time. It is silly that the new rules make the more reasonable 35W reflector bulbs impossible to find, driving us to the 250W and 500W substitutes.
@@tactileslut ya exactly! And from what I understand nobody's manufacturing the 200-250w red ones right now so once they're gone they're gone from the shelf, they're gone, unless someone starts making them again.. I got mine from Home Front off a clearance rack for a dollar a piece. I didn't even think of Tractor Supply which makes sense, totally forgot they're used in chicken houses too.. I wonder what they're gonna do now coz the halogens that are still available are big dog tubes for the expensive industrial flood lights, way too hot for chickens. Interesting I never even thought about chickens that's a good one. I'll be interested to hear from others what they're going through on that
Why is Biden’s eco bunch banning everything? Does not make sense just like the EV debacle .
@@MacPoop - They'll almost certainly get a by for specialty circumstances. Same reason they haven't stopped producing mercury vapor or sodium vapor lamps, and I'm pretty certain that theatrical lighting got a variance.
I like the dark beamer style screw in lamps, knocks the immediate cold edge off the workspace or living space for that matter.
We had the E27 variety with clear glass in our popcorn carts where people could go and scoop it up... now we have convection cabinets that heat up to 60ish C, into which we prepare various serving sizes. Those are modified fridges, although the importer says they aren't, but they still have the refrigerant markings, and the compartment for the compressor in the back.
In a supermarket I frequent they have an IR heater panel over one of the cashier stations. That one is closest to their side door, which opens every freaking time someone walks by... and even though they have a heat pump to blow hot air in the "air lock" some cold air tends to enter in the winter. While it stays nice and warm, the conveyor is often hot to touch unless they keep it constantly rolling.
I seem to remember reading that Halogen lamps running at less than full power will actually fail sooner than one running at rated output.
It's something to do with the evaporating filament molecules within the lamp not recombining correctly during the lamps internal cycle thus leading to erosion, thinning and failure of the lamp.
Car headlight bulbs were the subject of the article in question.
There's a theory that traditional tungsten halogen downlights on a dimmer, should be run at full every so often just to clean them up internally.
Use these at my job.
We make batteries and my job is to work on the line that makes pasted plates. These are basically a lead grid with a lead based clay covering this grid.
This clay looks like dirt for all its worth, only crazy toxic and full of lead. It needs to be a certain level of moisture.
These lamps are used in the testing devices that heat up samples.
Do you use the linear catering-style lamps or the red chicken-coop type ones ?
Also do you have to wear goggles or other eye protection from the infrared ?
Good stuff! I might consider them to build a reflow oven.