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Normal light bulb or a halogen light bulb?	chxq99	07/24/04
Dear all, I have recently purchased a ceiling fan with a lighting fixture at the bottom part. According to the user manual, only a 100 watt type A light bulb should be used. However, you can imagine that it is insufficient for a room with size over 150 square feet. Now my question is can I used a 100 watt halogen light bulb instead? Thank you. Cheers,
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labman		07/26/04
If you can find a 100 watt halogen bulb made to work in an ordinary fixture, it should give more light for 100 watts without producing any more heat. I think some of the halogen bulbs that require a special fixture with a ballast transformer are even more efficient than fluorescent lights. Those bulbs come with a base that is the same as an ordinary bulb, but will not work in an ordinary fixture. Recognize them by the vertical heavy glass rod in the middle with a dimple in the end. To add to the confusion, there are sodium vapor bulbs that look like them, but will not work in the fixtures for the halogen ones, requiring their own special fixtures. The bulbs are very expensive, $20-$30. Do not buy one without verifying it is meant to work in a regular fixture. The compact fluorescents are becoming more popular. However most of them are sized to give the light of a 60 watt bulb while using less energy. I recently found some at Home Depot that are small enough to fit into most fixtures.

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