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Light bulbs are used almost everywhere where additional light is needed. In the old times when there was no electricity and bulbs, humans depended on other sources of

Incandescent Light Bulb

light to spend the night. With the production of the light bulb, it has been made possible to do many tasks even at night.  At the present day there are many types of bulbs which produce many types of light of different color and intensities. They are of different shapes and sizes which operate on different values of electricity. Modern bulbs are made for increased life span and reliability.

The common bulb which is an ordinary bulb is also called the incandescent bulb. Incandescent means when heated bodies give off light. In normal light bulbs a thin filament is subjected to a voltage of electricity traveling through it. This causes the filament to glow white hot and emitting white light. The space around the filament in light bulbs are filled with inert gasses such as Argon or made into a vacuum. This is the reason why the filament doesn’t simply burn itself out; there is no oxygen for the filament to burn. These incandescent light bulbs function on a range of 1.5 to 300 volts. No additional components are necessary for using these light bulbs and are cheap in manufacturing. Therefore these light bulbs are used in places like normal house lighting and in cars to almost any possible application. These bulbs can be used with AC or DC current making them very handy.

Some additional applications are possible because of the nature in which the bulbs produce light. Since heating the filament produces light, there is a certain amount of heat given off when these light bulbs operate. Therefore they can be used in instances to incubate eggs, for drying and for heating.

The invention of incandescent light bulbs was a collection of efforts from more than twenty two scientists as history states it. The most useful combination was by Sir. Thomas Edison which used Tungsten for the filament which didn’t cause the filament to be burn out after using it once or after a few seconds contributed the most. He also used a vacuum around the filament so that the filament will not burn out.

Incandescent light bulbs use ninety percent of the used electricity to produce heat and only ten percent to actually produce useful white light which we use. Using many incandescent bulbs in one establishment can have negative effect on the electricity costs but the positive side is that these types of bulbs are cheap and require no maintenance at all.

There are many replacements for the normal light bulb which are more energy efficient and produce light of different colors and intensities. Modern bulbs tend to be saving the heat produced in the light production of the normal light bulbs so that electricity costs are cut down. Even then incandescent light bulbs are the best choice if you want to shed some light somewhere there is a simple bulb holder.

Normal light bulbs used in rooms are called incandescent light bulbs. These bulbs produce white light by electricity flowing through a thin tungsten filament. The filament

Fluorescent Light Bulb

gets hot and becomes white hot producing white light, which is emitted to make the whole room bright with white light. Since there is a lot of heat produced, more energy is wasted in producing heat rather than producing the white light which we want. Therefore the efficiency of a normal bulb is very low. If there are a number of these bulbs the electricity waste is much more and the owner would have to pay a large electricity bill.

Fluorescent light bulbs are light bulbs which use a mix of argon gas and mercury in the vapor state inside a tube; there are two electrodes at the two ends of this fluorescent tube. When electricity is supplied to the electrodes a stream of electrons is sent through the fluorescent tube the electrons bump into the mercury atoms which excites them. The excited atoms then come to the ground state or become unexcited by emitting ultraviolet photons. The fluorescent tube has a phosphor coating which emits bright white light when the ultra violet photons hits the fluorescent tube surface. It is because of this that a normal florescent bulb of low wattage produces lighting intensity equivalent to a normal bulb with four to six times of its wattage.

The heat produced in a fluorescent light is very less therefore there is less waste of energy and the use of these bulbs are very efficient. When there are large amount of bulbs used in one place, fluorescent light bulbs can help you cut down on the electricity cost considerably. Lamps of this kind have a long lifespan unlike normal bulbs. Most fluorescent light bulbs are guaranteed to last 3 years or 20000-30000 hours. A fact about these lights is that the more frequently the lamp is switched on and off, the less life time it lasts for. Therefore if the lamp is switched off rarely and left on for days at a stretch, it can even last for more than three years. As I most cases, a fluorescent light bulbs lasts longer than 3 years.

Switching on fluorescent light bulbs draw an extra current greater than the normal operational current, therefore there has been a debate if the normal bulb is more efficient than these bulbs. The truth is that the extra current is much less compared to the electrical need of the normal bulb and anyway the operational current requirement of the florescent bulb is way cheaper. Unlike normal incandescent bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs have a brighter white light which lasts longer.

Fluorescent light bulbs come in different diameters and lengths, all of which can be fitted into an Edison socket. It is possible to obtain bulbs with different wattage’s ringing from 5 watts upwards. There are lamps called compact fluorescent light bulbs which are, as the name suggests, smaller versions of the longer bulb. These bulbs known as CFL for short can fit the same socket into which incandescent bulbs fit.

With fluorescent light bulbs you can reduce electricity costs greatly while having less trouble with replacing bulbs. It is possible to obtain bulbs with different shades or intensities of light.

Bulbrite is a company which has been revolutionizing the lighting industry for almost 40 years since it was first established. The company is dedicated to discovering new

Bulbrite

ways to provide customers with electricity efficient lighting solutions. Special efforts made by the company in educating people about the industry and conducting ground breaking research has resulted in Bulbrite making innovative contributions such as the KX-2000 and LED MR16. Bulbrite light bulbs offer a wide range of bulbs and lamping components. Bulbrite is a committee member of the American Lighting association, a silver sustaining member of IESNA, member of the International Dark Sky Association and a partner of energy star.

Bulbrite light bulbs come in a number of shapes and sizes to match lighting requirements and holders. Bulbrite light bulbs are graded according to size using a code comprising of a letter and a number. The letter denotes the shape of the bulb and the number states the diameter of the bulb against eighths of an inch. According to this notation a common house bulb is graded A-19 which translates to the basic shape and of diameter 23/8. According to the lamp notation, base type is known. The different filaments are denoted as “C” for coil type. Using these notations, the Bulbrite products can be classified.

Color of light emitted is classified into two categories since customers require certain shades and intensities of light for different purposes. Color temperature is a measurement used to denote the color of the light emitted. The standard used is color rendering index or CRI which denotes as to how well an artificial light is able to render the true color of an object compared to what the color is seen as outside in sunlight.

Bulbrite light bulbs can be basically divided into the following categories:

• Standard bulbs- These bulbs are of two types in the Bulbrite production series a fan bulb which has a strong and long lasting filament to withstand fan vibrations. A halogen A-19 bulb which is fully dimmable and 30% energy saving, available in clear and soft white.
• Chandelier bulbs- These bulbs are specially built to add a wonderful affect on the chandeliers. They are of four types of the showroom series called Silicone flame, Spluntice, Nostalgic and antique. The other Krystal touch krypton bulb is a designer’s preferred lamp which is the only 10W Krypton bulb available in the market. It is 45% lumens per watt energy efficient than conventional bulbs.
• Krypton or Xenon bulbs- KX-2000 X2000 Neon is some of those products. X2000 are good lights for accent lighting and landscape lighting. The KX-2000 is a good replacement for halogen lighting.
• Halogen lamps- DJD GU-10, Frosted Halogen PARs, Halogen/Xenon BT15, R111 & MR20 GU10 and Specialty MR’s are some of the halogen products offered ad Bulbrite.
• LED lamps- Bulbrite offers an array of LEC lights like LED C7, C9, Chain lights, LED Globes & S14, Super High Power LED’s and LED Rechargeable Candles.
• CFL bulbs- CFL Dimmable, CFL PAR Lamps, CFL Pin-Base and CFL Super Mini are CFL bulbs.
• Bulbrite specials- These are the special kinds of lighting found only at Bulbrite. The four types are landscape lighting, nostalgic collection, linear and true daylight lamps.

Have you ever asked your self with all this modern technology what are these energy saving light bulbs all about and you spend more for it too. It all started with a concept of energy saving which initiated the public to conserve energy first in the body and then the extended environment. Today it has emerged into the energy saving light bulb; a fad and perhaps a fantasy. We all use it in an effort to reduce our electric bills, it is believed.

What do these bulbs actually do? Do they truthfully save energy and reduce the amount paid on electricity each month? The speculations have been that they do; at least that is being said on the media and around the globe. There are no numbers to prove anyone right or wrong but it is a premise worth exploring.

Fluorescent Light Bulb

The fact is that, this is not a twenty first century invention neither did it emerge from any contemporary irregularity of our ecosystem. Since in the 1800s scientists experimented with energy saving light bulbs. It was discovered that the bulbs gave the same amount of light and saved some $30 US dollars of energy during their life time. The operative term is during the life time.

This being so; can it be conceived, then, that it does not seriously affect as extensively the monthly electric bill? Could it be true that it is more an environmental safety measure rather than a benefit to consumers in the context of a reduced electric bill? This is a question which needs to be answered by every consumer of electricity.

There is another popular theory which supports the energy saving assumption. It has been posited that if every American home uses just one energy saving light bulb, enough energy would be left over to provide electricity to three million homes a year as well as prevent some 9m pounds of green house gas escaping into the ozone layer. Is not that marvelous! Clearly it is an environmental conservation strategy and not so much a question of saving on your utility bill.

Facts must be interpreted and reality faced that energy saving light bulbs have been designed to save energy. Scientifically, it has been proven true. The misinterpretation of the consumer might be that their electricity bill will subsequently be reduced. So far this has not been the fundamental focus of using energy saving light bulbs. The aim is to have a safer environment, ultimately, reducing the amount of green house gases being produced annually.

As inhabitants of this planet each person is responsible for maintaining a secure future for the next generation and the next. One way to do this is by using energy saving light bulbs. It is our duty to promote these ideas of energy conservation even if it does not reflect in our monthly energy kilo. We are still supposed to commit to this idea of a healthy ecosystem because energy saving light bulbs were invented and used even before this greenhouse crisis with which the earth is now faced.