Light Bulb for Well House

Why not a quartz halogen bulb. Many headlights use them and I had them in my man cave to light up my dart boards.

They got so hot you could tan under them and damned if you touched one of them as they would take the hide off your hands.

I swapped them out for LED bulbs and they are much cooler, but your problem is keeping the area warm and quartz halogens will do that.

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220V

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Sounds like your bulb wasn’t a 220v bulb.

So is the socket 110 or 220?

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100W 220V bulbs

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You said you need a 220v bulb. If you put a 110v bulb in a 220v wired socket it's going to blow.

Yes, the socket is 220, and we thought we had the right bulb, and then tried a few others.

We could have put a heater in, but we had the light fixtures designed specifically for this purpose. It's a nice little water pump house, and usually held out, but a few years ago we had weather well below freezing for 72 hours straight. Rare occurrence, but it's tough to lose water for multiple days.

We'll just wait another day or so and buy the right ones, but they are hard to find.

I have 2 dart boards set up in my man cave and for lighting I put up a track light strip about 6 ft. in front of the boards with 3 LED lights in small canisters directed on each board.

That gives off lots of light and it is directed at the wall the boards are on and offers subtle lighting in the rest of the area.

For something real subtle, you don't need 6 LED bulbs and can easily get away with less just for ambient light.


I also have some neon light sculptures that are really not bright at all with the colored tubes offering way less light than the plain white tubes.

Nothing dangerous about either option. However, if you use something like halogen lights, be aware that those bulbs get extremely hot.

Here's a link to Amazon for 220V heat lamp bulbs. Not cheap but meet your requirements.