The numbers on the socket are the listed maximums of the socket, not what should be in there. Today's LEDs should be fine in such a fixture as they generate a fraction of the heat of incandescent bulbs. Answer from OldSkoolDj52 on reddit.com
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Art Plumbing and AC
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Indoor Lighting: When Does Wattage Matter? | Art Plumbing, Air Conditioning & Electric
February 23, 2022 - If the temperature goes beyond the limit by using a light fixture with bulbs that are too large, then wire damage can happen. For rooms with suitable amounts of natural light, the wattage for indoor lighting should be around 60 watts.
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How Many Watts Does a Light Bulb Use? | EnergySage
November 22, 2024 - Based on an average wattage of 60 W for incandescent light bulbs (amounting to 43.8 kWh/year) and an average wattage of 10 W for LED light bulbs (amounting to 7.3 kWh/year), here's how the cost to run a light bulb pans out over the course of ...
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Safe home light wattage?
The numbers on the socket are the listed maximums of the socket, not what should be in there. Today's LEDs should be fine in such a fixture as they generate a fraction of the heat of incandescent bulbs. More on reddit.com
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electrical - Is there a maximum wattage lightbulb I can use on ceiling lights or floor lamp lights? - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
You could always get a 250 watt incandescent bulb in the usual shapes. So there has always been a way to get plenty of light. Incandescents love heat, so the #1 design feature of a fixture is to keep the hot incandescents from burning the house down. Thus, each fixture has a "wattage rating" ... More on diy.stackexchange.com
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What is the max bulb wattage? (USA 120V)
Put in a 16 watt led. Same light amount. More on reddit.com
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Which of these numbers actually matter when replacing the bulb?
G9 is the style/shape of the bulb. You need the replacement to be the right style/shape. 120V is the voltage the bulb requires, and this is standard in the US (and many other countries), though it it sometimes listed as 110, 115 or 125V. So you need a bulb that lists the voltage as somewhere in the 110-125V range. 3W is the power the bulb uses, which is related to how bright the bulb will be. Some bulbs are more efficient than others, so there is some variability here, but it is likely that something close to 3W (like in the 2-4W range) will give you similar brightness, and something like 10W would be much brighter than your other bulbs. 5000K is the color temperature and tells you how warm/yellow or cold/blue the color of the light will be. Warm white is around 2700K and very bright white (almost blue) light is like 6500K. This should match your other bulbs. So you need a G9 bulb with a voltage of 110-125V and a color temp of 5000K and a wattage of around 3W (but maybe not exactly). More on reddit.com
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Lamp Shop Online
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Which Light Bulb Wattage Do I Need? | Light Bulb Wattage Explained
This advice blog aims to answer the questions, which light bulb wattage do I need? Are all light bulb wattages the same across all brands?
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Light Bulb Buying Guide: Types, Wattage, Lumens & More
February 8, 2025 - The higher the lumen count, the brighter the light. For reference, a standard 100-watt incandescent bulb produces about 1,600 lumens of light, according to the Department of Energy.
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What is the average light bulb wattage? - Quora
Sure, 40 - 60 W in many residential applications is fine, as is the 20 W version you find in many older ovens. 100 W + was common for higher spaces, even 150 W, but the short version is โ€œit depends on the usageโ€. With LED solutions, ...
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How Many Watts Is A Light Bulb Use?Overview & Examples
November 24, 2023 - The wattage of each individual ... consumption. The wattage of a standard incandescent light bulb is typically between 40 and 150 watts, while LED and CFL bulbs typically range from 3 to 25 watts....
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Most Common Light Bulbs and Their LED Replacement
The most common types of light bulb used in homes are 25, 40, 60, 75 and 100 watts. For most rooms, a 60 watt bulb is the standard.
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How to Match Bulb Wattage to Light Fixtures
December 3, 2025 - The wattage drawn by a household bulb can range from 8 to 60 watts, and you'll find the wattage rating of a light bulb printed on its base, just above the element you screw into a fixture.
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Light Bulb Types: How to Choose the Best Light Bulbs
August 9, 2024 - More lumens equal brighter light; fewer lumens equal dimmer light. Standard 100-watt bulbs produce about 1,600 lumens. Watts are the amount of energy a light bulb uses. The lower the light bulbโ€™s wattage, the less energy it uses.
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A Guide to Light Bulb Sizes, Types, Shapes, and Codes.
The numbers of the bulb indicate its size, which is based on its diameter at its widest point, measured in eighths of an inch (โ…›โ€). For example: An A19 bulb indicates that the bulb comes in a standard household shape (code ...
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What Is the Difference Between Voltage, Wattage, and Lumens?
July 19, 2024 - Wattage (W) measures the amount of electrical power consumed by a light bulb or fixture to produce light.
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200W is quite a lot of energy (it's more than most light fittings were designed for back in the days of incandescent lights). Depending on exactly how you fit it, you risk making things hot, and them catching fire. Check the light fitting (the bit you screw it into) is rated for that much power.

I would also point out that the link says "for High Bay Area Lighting". It's designed to go in the ceiling of a warehouse, and illuminate things over a large area. If you put one in an office, I think you will find it is unbearably bright. If you put more than one in an office, it will be ridiculous.

The one thing you won't have a problem with is the electrical circuit. Most UK lighting circuits are rated for 5A, and this thing only draws about 1A, so you have plenty of leeway.

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First, that "bulb" has a mogul base not a standard base.

Let's talk thermal efficiency, first. In a perfect conversion, 1 watt makes 683 lumens. So with an incandescent bulb making 16 lumens per watt, the incandescent made about 2.4% light and 97.6% heat. So we treated a 60W bulb as making 60W of heat.

LEDs might be 140 lumens/watt. So they make 20% light and 80% heat. But again, we might as well treat a 12 watt LED bulb like it's making 12 watts of heat. The form of the heat doesn't really change anything.

No. Fixtures have thermal ratings which still apply.

You could always get a 250 watt incandescent bulb in the usual shapes. So there has always been a way to get plenty of light. Incandescents love heat, so the #1 design feature of a fixture is to keep the hot incandescents from burning the house down. Thus, each fixture has a "wattage rating" that really applies to the heat made by the bulb. And as discussed at the start, the "actual watts" of the LED is an accurate reflection of that heat.

So your fixture should be identified with a "maximum allowed watts" of incandescent bulb. That is based on the heat made by that size bulb (i.e. that many watts). The same restriction applies to the actual watts of an LED.

You are proposing absolutely crazy sized * LEDs which are 200 watts actual. That is going to exceed the thermal rating of any common household fixture. The excess heat will burn your house down, but prior to that...

The LED "bulbs" will not be able to keep cool

With LED fixtures it is absolutely vital that they remain cool. The junction temp must be kept below 85C (that's right at the chip) or 115C at the absolute outside with some degradation over time. Thermal management is a big deal, and is the driving factor on large LED designs.

Looking at this thing (scaling to the fact that it has a Mogul base)... - I'm sorry, no. It simply doesn't have enough surface area to radiate 200W of heat and provide the junction temperatures LEDs need. That's in open air... buttoned up inside a fixture designed for incandescents, forget it. The bulb will last weeks and then fail.

Also, check the size of it. It's huge. Remember that is a Mogul Base so it's 1-1/2 x the size of a normal base.

Anyway, you want quality light

For what you're trying to do, light quality matters. They have a quality rating for lights, called CRI, which reflects how it corresponds (to the eye) to an ideal blackbody source like an incandescent or the sun. (that = 100 CRI). Now those low-pressure sodiums are about -35 CRI (you think I'm joking) and of course that's why you don't want them.

Well, cheap Cheese LEDs also have abominable CRI, since they sell to chumps on Amazon. You want between 90 and 98 CRI. Why do I say that? Because I buy big lighting cheap, and the stuff I buy is between 90 and 98 CRI. Just random stuff at Menards (think Wickes).

If you don't get top shelf CRI, then your body/eyes won't be fooled into thinking it's not winter. The same is true of color temperature - you have to select color temperature correctly for the condition you're trying to treat, and again that cheap Cheese garbage isn't going to be true to any color temperature they claim.

There's a better way to get Big Big Lumens

Don't even waste your time trying to cram it into existing fixtures. Just go a different way and get fixtures and bulbs actually designed to make biblical quantities of lumens.

My "go-to" for huge lumens is old tube fluorescent fixtures. Interesting fact about those. They are typically four feet long, which means they are too large to fit in standard rubbish bins. As such, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are awash with people begging you to haul them away :) I collect them by the dozen. I smile and wince as they show me their shop full of very harsh LED lights.

What do you do with an old fluorescent fixture to get GREAT light? Well, of course there are LED retrofit "tubes" but I find them harsh, the brands are hokey with bad quality control and marketing lies.

I myself stay in the domain of REAL fluorescent. I get electronic ballasts off eBay (quality brands) - no flicker, no buzz, always starts in the cold. Random fluorescent tubes from my local home store are 90 CRI for real, so getting quality light is as easy as falling off a horse - very little caveat emptor. The quality is first rate - the tubes and ballasts are quality brands like Sylvania or Philips.

Shop lights hold 2 tubes per fixture. Troffers hold 4 tubes per fixture. You can also get troffers that hold six fluorescent tubes, but those are harder to find for free.

So you pause to figure out how many lumens you really need, and dense-pack your ceiling with these fluorescent fixtures. You could also put more fixtures than you think you'll need, and just add and remove tubes as needed to dial it in.

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Bulb Wattage Guide
August 4, 2022 - In any case, the wattage you should use with bulbs will depend on how much lighting you want or need. 60W is the standard for most living rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens, and other frequently-used parts of your home.
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Which new-generation light bulb corresponds to my old bulb? โ€“ Energuide
The comparison chart below shows you exactly which energy-saving light bulb or LED lamp you can replace your old incandescent light bulb or halogen lamp with to get the same amount of light (i.e.
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A practical guide to optimizing your lighting. | Multi Lighting
May 29, 2023 - In general, you should count on about 1.86 watts per square foot for ambient lighting with traditional bulbs. If you have a 300-square-foot living room, you will need 558 watts for optimal lighting.
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How do I know what wattage and voltage light bulb I need? โ€“ BulbAmerica
A good indicator to know what light bulb to use is also your lamp / fixture socket as in most cases you will not be able to plug in a wrong voltage bulb, so knowing the bulb base can be also helpful for choosing the correct bulb. - Wattage: Wattage is the amount of energy is used by a lamp or light bulb.
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Best Light Bulb Wattage for Every Room โ€“ City Lights SF
November 23, 2024 - Always look at the lumens rating to ensure you get the right brightness level while keeping energy consumption and wattage in mind. There are several types of light bulbs to consider, each with its typical wattage range and energy efficiency:
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What is the Equivalent Wattage for LED Bulbs | LEDVANCE
September 27, 2024 - Instead, it would help if you found the 60-watt LED equivalent. The brightness differs because an LED bulb's brightness is calculated using lumens instead of watts. The higher the lumen, the brighter the light for an LED bulb.
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What is An Ideal Light Bulb Wattage for Bedroom? - Hirosart
February 28, 2025 - Many bulbs will produce more lumens ... For a standard 10 x 12 bedroom, aim for ceiling fixtures with a total wattage of 240 - 300 watts for general lighting....
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