A neutral living room with a sofa and floor lamp - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Do you need a new floor lamp to brighten up your living room, or to replace one that recently broke? If so, you're probably ...

Each of the three basic types of light sources — incandescent, fluorescent, and HID — has its own particular applications and advantages. The proper selection of a lamp type will ultimately depend on ...

Quartz Tungsten Halogen (QTH) lamps are proven visible and near infrared sources, thanks to their smooth spectral curve and stable output. They generate little ultraviolet radiation and do not exhibit ...

Reliably generating light with the limited resources at a car’s disposal was a problem for early automotive engineers. Tungsten filaments, similar to the kind found in household incandescent light ...

A halogen bulb is similar to an electric bulb found in any household. But while your regular bulb has a filament (small wire) that heats up and emits light, the halogen lamp uses halogen gas to ...

Q: Since halogens give off more heat, do they present a fire hazard for lamp shades? Will the halogens make the shades deteriorate faster? A: Halogens are twice as hot as standard incandescent lamps.

The days are numbered for many halogen lamps in Finland, after a ban on the production and import of several varieties of the lights went into effect across the EU on Saturday. The types of halogen ...