tallgirl
Senior Member
- Location
- Glendale, WI
- Occupation
- Controls Systems firmware engineer
I never saw a GES other than 500W; a 1500W bulb I find..... wild!
They are =sweet=.
Before Dad became a real General Contractor (he moonlighted as an architect before that), he had a couple of Mogul base bulbs. One of which was 1,500 watts. He'd use them to turn the inside of a house into daylight before the sheetrock went up.
The last house we built in New Orleans was weathered-in around Thanksgiving of 1975. Dad strung a 1,500 watt bulb from the peak of the den's vaulted ceiling and lit the entire den, the dining room that was adjacent, and into the kitchen and breakfast area.
We then had Thanksgiving dinner in what was an otherwise miserably uncomfortable house with no heat, except the fireplace.
And not to say a 500 or 1,000 watt bulb wouldn't have done the trick, but not the same way that monster did.