how do you make a 2000 watt light bulb?

Question

the 100w dosnt put out egnof light. i have a total of 2000 watts in my living room 25 lamps can you help
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Answer 1

If you use a 400W metal halide or high-pressure-sodium lamp, you'd generated about the same amount of light as 2000 W of standard light bulbs. You would use less electricity, and generate less heat (and save on air conditioning costs, if you have one). Also, these lamps last at least 10 times longer than standard light bulbs.

p.s. The first answerer had a good point: why do you need so much light in your living room?

p.p.s. to "Intelligent and curious": It's 2 kW, not 2000 kW, so the annual bill would be $110.

Answer 2

Are you going to perform surgery in there? First off, how big is your living room? A single 2000 watt bulb and fixture (if one was made for indoor residential use) is going to eat up a 20 amp circuit IF standard residential voltage could power a 2000 watt bulb.

The heat given off from that 2000 watt bulb or your 25 lamps (at a total of 2000 watts) is going to kill your electric bill. All that heat and the air conditioning trying to offset the heat.

Think about this. If you're currently running 25 lamps at a total of 2000 watts for 1 hour a day every day for an entire year, you would use (2000*1*365)=730,000 Kwh. In Dallas, that would cost you $109,500.

I just don't believe your scenario.

In my haste, I made a very big error. 730,000 was watts not kilowatts, so it should be 730 Kwh @$0.15 per Kwh= $109.50, but your scenario is still silly.

Answer 3

I don't think you have the equipment necessary to make a 2000 watt light bulb. Why on Earth would you want that much light in your living room???

Answer 4

change the color of your living room so it will reflect light, like white paint. Big photocopiers have halogen heating elements that are about 1 foot long and about 1/4 inch in diameter. they are about 350 to 1000 watts. you could design a light hood for the bulb. make it look like a shop light but it will put out 10 times more light. use mirrors as well to reflect light. you could put a light dimmer on it so you could go up or down on brightness. you could even make a circuit to simulate the sun coming up and going down by a 555 integrated circuit timer and a counter chip that steps to a different resistance for your light dimmer every time the 555 timer starts or ends its timing cycle you set, or better yet, get an old computer that runs windows 98 and use the parallel port to control your lights on and off using gwbasic programming. total control of on and off and anywhere inbetween.
sounds like your growing vegetables or herbs, else the designer of your home was lame.

Answer 5

Why in the world do you need 2000 watts of light in a room. Are you trying to grow something (illegal) indoors?

Answer 6

You might try a carbon arc light but it is hot and expensive to operate. But, boy, will you have the brightest reading lamp in the neighborhood. I'm not sure why you would want so much light unless you are operating a light house or a landing zone for aliens.

Answer 7

get a car battery and some copper wires connect it to the light and it will brighten your room just becarful cause it can pop and burn your house