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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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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This is quite an unusual special purpose bulb or lamp and it's designed for use in the Katry industry. If you've ever gone up to the heated buffets and they're illuminated by the lights from above and it also radiates that heat down to keep the food hot, this is what's doing that. It's a H Hallogen lamp, but because it's the food industry, it needs protection against being splattered with oil. If I zoom down this so you can see it's got this outer glass sleeve here that is loose, then it's got the hallogen lamp inside.
This does three things: It doesn't just protect it from being splattered with oil cuz H Hallogen lights do not like that. but uh, it also protects from the UVC the small amount of UVC is given out by the H hallogen lamps and also it uh prevents a shattering lamp from scattering glass down over the food. So things worth mentioning: there are little vent slots in the side so it can kind of breathe s of to speak. it's not going to build up pressure and of course that is loose there anyway.
So this came as a kit from a UK seller on eBay that specializes in catering equipment I she'll zoom out to fit this in. uh, Catering Heat Lamp bulb 300 W Double jacket Gantry light kit set and it comes a reflector, the lamp and the holder which is good for doing maintenance from because uh, usually the ends of these holders burn um and it came from Ker Spar UK 12 and it cost 1350 inclusive which I thought was actually quite reasonable. So one of the reasons I got this: I Fancy trying out to see could this be used in a workshop for extra light and heat simultaneously? because when I worked in Glasgow at my bench, um in Winter I used a 500 W Hogen flood light above the bench and it was. Honestly, it felt like it was great to go through to the bench because it felt like working under Sunshine it provided loads of light plus that heat and I'm not sure if this is optimized more more for the Heat or the light, but we'll find out cuz I'm going to test it now that I've handled it I'm going to clean the outer glass as well because these things do run quite hot and if you get fingerprints on it, it can actually cause damage to the glass by heat buildup and de vitrification.
Particularly the quartz itself in there can devitrify, but this outer sleeve I don't know what type of glass that is. but anyway, I'm going to set that up now and we can assess it for light output and I'll take what the Heat's like one moment please. Okay, so it's a very golden light. As you can see, it's not actually a massive quantity of light.
It is optimized for infrared, but boy does it put out infrared that is so hot instantly! As soon as you turn this on, you can feel the heat. I'm going to have to be careful here, don't want to melt I've got a clamp here just holding up at the moment, but uh, it is 300 WS pretty much on the button which is very good. Uh Unity power factor which you'd expect one 1.2 amps pretty good. Uh, but the heat.
Oh, in winter time, that would be fantastic. This winter time at the moment that does feel fantastic. Quite enjoying heating the hands, so let's take a closer look at the assembly now. I've put it together one moment please. So some things worth mentioning about this: you'd have to put this into a suitable enclosure or just buy the complete light because the end caps here are effectively live because they are the bits that connect onto the lamp and this spring-loaded section. Also, if you put this into a housing of your own, it would need ventilation. It would need the ceramic Turner blocks and everything. so it maybe is a better option just to buy the full assembly.
And it's one of these things that maybe you don't think you've got a use for it right now. but it's useful to know about things like this because you might have an application later on that you just need some spot heat on part of a production process or in your workshop. And because these work with longwave infrared light, they are one of the most efficient heat sources there. is that thing that heat? You know you think 300 WS is 300 WS but in this case, because it's longwave infrared light you can.
It sends out basically as light. You can feel the heat instantly on your body when it hits it. It is an efficient way of heating people in a large area where it wouldn't be viable to heat the whole building. Now there is another option here.
This one is broken. It's got a it's got a wobbly end cap, but this is a traditional chicken CP type heat lamp as used in farms. You get the version with the red Uh glass and you also get the version with the uh clear glass in the front that puts out a useful amount of light as well. This one's 250 wat, but you get the complete fittings for these that you can, uh, suspend them from the ceiling and they've got the grill in front in case of glass breakage and these put out the same golden radiant warm heat.
Uh, it's very useful. A very efficient way of Uh Workshop heating. but that is it. Um, useful thing now.
I'm also guessing that because this isn't running super white hot, that the lifespan of the filament in this lamp is going to be very, very long. I Suppose the catering guys are the ones who are going to know that because they work with them and uh, will know typically how long they're going to get between changes. But there we have it. Um, pretty neat.
A nice assembly. useful I could possibly think of uses for this building into stuff for that. Uh, localized heating? Very neat. Um, well worth getting exploring.
Just saw a water bottle on Amazon that claims to have UV-C light in the lid to sanitize your water. It's called The LARQ Bottle
Would make for an interesting custom stage blinder effect.
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.
What no Temp readings and distance test?
Watts hog
Hey, where's our schematic 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
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 !
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.
I guess also useful as a short circuit protection when testing devices of unknown status.
Any heatpump will give you more than 100% thermal efficiency. Heating by passing current through wires is inefficient.
I feel a home brewed reflow oven might now be on the cards. Thanks Clive.
Do you have to worry about sunburns with the buffet lamp or just contact "I shouldn't have touched that" burns?
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 wonder if they make them to run on 12 volt for camping or tiny house use
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.
This is probably a viable option for heating high humidity terrariums
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