Help changing a lightbulb??!!!

elsien

Well not quite, but I'm still being a bit thick.
I'm looking at getting this bathroom light and can't work out what sort of bulb it takes - I don't want anything that's going to be hard to find. Or is it a bog standard low energy bulb?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002M9WAVY/ref=s9_simh_gw_p79_d0_g79_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0CBYHA1Y6D332DP102JC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

Anyone point me in the right direction?
Cheers.

Yorksboy

CFL is a compact fluorescent. Very widely available. Beware that these do not give out a lot of light and need to warm up. If you need or want good bright lighting in the bathroom I'd recommend halogen. You will still need a bathroom rated light fitting. My wife likes bright lighting - we have a bathroom light with a 1000 watt halogen. Have a look at

http://www.lights4living.com/0291-strata-square-halogen-bathroom-ceiling-light-ip44/p734

elsien

Thanks - it's only a small bathroom with the ceiling on a slope from about half way down. At the moment there's a pendant fitting with an old fashioned 60w bulb. So I'm looking for something that chucks out a similar amount of light (doesn't need to be any brighter) but has a smaller diameter, about 20 cm give or take.
A lot of the ones I've looked at are 30 cm which is too big.

Ectophile

Looking at the Amazon page, it takes a GX53 lamp, which is not the normal sort of CFL bulb you can buy for pennies from the local supermarket.

Do a quick Google for "GX53" for what they look like, and what they cost.

MX5huggy

Yorksboy wrote: »

CFL is a compact fluorescent. Very widely available. Beware that these do not give out a lot of light and need to warm up. If you need or want good bright lighting in the bathroom I'd recommend halogen. You will still need a bathroom rated light fitting. My wife likes bright lighting - we have a bathroom light with a 1000 watt halogen. Have a look at

http://www.lights4living.com/0291-strata-square-halogen-bathroom-ceiling-light-ip44/p734

1kW! Of lighting in a bathroom! It's either massive bathroom or the wife likes a little brain surgery while taking a soak. My whole house does not have 1000 watts. At least you don't need the heating on.

madjay

Yorksboy wrote: »

CFL is a compact fluorescent. Very widely available. Beware that these do not give out a lot of light and need to warm up. If you need or want good bright lighting in the bathroom I'd recommend halogen. You will still need a bathroom rated light fitting. My wife likes bright lighting - we have a bathroom light with a 1000 watt halogen. Have a look at

http://www.lights4living.com/0291-strata-square-halogen-bathroom-ceiling-light-ip44/p734

I do not think you have 1000w light in you bathroom, if the luminaire you show in the link is the said light then you have 2 x 40watt which equal 80watts not 1,000w

jc808

I think youd boil alive in a room with a 1000W halogen

Yorksboy

Oops - I was just looking at the pictures! The fitting looks similar to this one. It is a fitting designed for a bathroom and it does use a 1000w lamp (just like the ones in security lights).

I know it seems excessive but believe me it does the job. Before his we had a fitting with 3 50w GU10 lamps and it was dim.this fitting is now in our downstairs loo and still seems dim.

Glad I gave everyone a laugh! :-)

Biggles

I'm still not sure you mean what you're saying, Yorksboy!

As far as I can see, 50w GU10s emit around 800 lumens, so three would produce maybe 2,500 lumens. That's bright, the equivalent of two 100w incandescents in the same fitting.

But a 1,000w lamp (even if merely an incandescent) would produce in excess of 13,000 lumens!! I wouldn't want to be in the same house as that, never mind the same room.

Interestingly, a Google suggests that the main use for 1000w lamps is for growing marijuana. Now, I think I see where you're coming from...

27col

A 1000w lamp in a bathroom. I don't believe it. That is ridiculous.

missile

Also do not take Yorkboy's

CFL is a compact fluorescent. Very widely available. Beware that these do not give out a lot of light and need to warm up. ] as gospel.

We have just replaced 50W halogen down lighters with CFLs. Ours give out MORE light.