Hello fellow techers Got a bit of a pickle at work I need to make a 100W drawing lightbult with a Bayonet fitting, as you can't buy 100W bulbs anymore due to the goverment having a hissy. Basicly one of our Press breaks has a light on the front that indicates when the light guards are active and if the bulb breaks the machine wont work until it detects a new 100W lightbulb and has to be 100W, I've got the engineer out but I'm not paying there crazy money to fix the problem so. If I got an LED bulb what would I need to cram into it to make it draw the extra say 94w of juice safely ? All help will be met with cookies of greatness . http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LED-Bulb-...9343600?pt=UK_Light_Bulbs&hash=item27c20ccdf0 Cheap ebay bulb.
I found 100W bulbs in stock in my local pound shop, and promptly purchased 6 boxes. I use them in my office, because energy saving light-bulbs just don't cut it when you're making intricate models, or drawing. I don't care if energy saving bulbs claim to be 100W equivalents, they simply don't come close. So yeah, have a look around, they're still available.
You couldn't put 100W through an LED without melting it. LED's by design draw a very small amount of current, so without fitting a "big ol' current sucking resistor" you're not going to find what you are after. You might be better off looking for a Xenon Halogen Lamp with a bayonet fitting as this will give you the high current draw you're after.
That is exactly what I'm after, how would I wire that into the bulb so that it draws the power? I'll take a look at the halogen option as well .
Does it need to read exactly 100W? If not then Osram have a line of "eco lamps" that use 30% less power and have double the lamp life. http://www.osram.com/osram_com/Professionals/General_Lighting/Halogen_lamps/Product_overview/Line_voltage/HALOGEN_ECO_CLASSIC/HALOGEN_ECO_CLASSIC_A/index.html Which I have found here: http://www.idealo.co.uk/compare/1484491/osram-64548-a-eco-105w-e27.html
Not through one LED no but you could through an LED lamp if they existed in such a high power draw package I really wouldn't go for Xenon, they have such short lamp life!
I've got a load of 100w philips lightbulbs that are energy efficient. They are avaliable. Also you could try amazon?
Or you could use 2 60watt bulbs, just cut the wire, and connect another bulb parallel. since its parallel the machine thinks its 120watt.
According to the engineer its got to be 100w , got one old 100w in at the moment but will work on modding an LED lightbulb when it arrives.
Have you actually tried a lower wattage bulb? Despite what the engineer says their usually 'fitters' not 'engineers' so when it comes to servicing they replace like for like. I had an engineer at my last job throw a fit over the fact we gave him a purple Cat5 patch to replace his broken grey Cat5 cable they use in the field to talk to our devices. Needless to say we gave him a Red cat5 cable and said it was faster.
there's 60watt bulb, and there's also 40watt bulb, 60+40=100, but i think anything over 100watt will turn the thing on.
^^^ This. I'd think it very strange that the machine sensor would be married to a specific wattage of bulb. I bet it just looks for a closed circuit and any bulb will do.
