Found some old light bulbs in our old house.
Twirly Boi
Like one of those fancy new LED bulbs with the cool twirly LED filament.
Except not LED and not new.
Uses about 170W as well. Pretty bright!
Look mum, no LEDs!
Wonder if they were hand-wound or something.
Weird Bee Bum
I don’t know what this is. Glows really dimly, uses about 4W.
This is actually two filaments(?), each only glowing on one half of the sine wave.
I don’t think the mirror finish is a feature. Looks more like sputtering.
Weird.
Hot Boi
Environmentally Conscious Boi
As far as I can tell, this really quite heavy thing is just a transformer, so you can plug in tiny, very low-power bulbs and save some electricity.
Not much light when off.
Not much when on either.
Photography Boi
Big old bulb.
Very very bright for an incandescent. Clips my camera no matter what I do.
Turns out it’s for photography.
It’s not a flash - you plug it into the mains like any other bulb - but its express purpose is for taking photos.
No wonder it’s that bright, it eats 500W.
I googled around a bit, and people are still selling them on ebay and stuff, so they’re not very rare.
Someone on a forum mentioned they have an average lifespan of around 7 hours. Sheesh.