Review of Sylvania #14700 50-watt PAR20 wide flood halogen bulb

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I installed two of these in my Broan range hood, and they really light up the stove top. My hood has 3 brightness settings and these bulbs do work with a dimmer. LED bulbs were my first choice, but I think LEDs are still too expensive for this application (Dec 2010) where usage is for short periods of time. I bought these halogen bulbs through Amazon from CFA Trading, and they shipped very quickly.

Beam Spread = 40 degrees

Light Output = 550 lumens

Energy Used = 50 watts

Life = 2500 hours

Volts = 120

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Thanks to other reviewer Seth for mentioning that this bulb fit into his Broan range hood.

Exactly the hood I have, and they do fit.

My original halogens were 2" wide at the lens. These are 2 3/4" wide, but they did go in (a little snug).

Amazon and Sylvania need to do a much better job of telling us shoppers specs like that on their products. Too much guesswork otherwise.

Hope this helps.

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I was happy to find these Sylvania PAR20 wide flood bulbs at Amazon. I use them in the Broan hood over my range, which has three brightness settings. The wide flood is the best bulb for that application since it allows the light to spread over the entire cook top. The bulbs give out a nice warm light and last a very long time. I've tried other PAR20 bulbs but none of them give out a nice wide beam of light or last as long as these. I would recommend these bulbs to anyone looking for a good quality PAR20 flood light bulb.

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While I like the look of the light itself, I'm a little upset over the longevity of this bulb. I use these bulbs in my bathroom, and they only seem to last barely 1 year before dying. If the 2500 hour listed bulb life was correct, that would mean I'd have left the light on in my bathroom for nearly 7 hours every day, which isn't even close. I'd estimate that I got a 1000 hours of life out of the bulb. By contrast, the twisted-style halogen bulb that I use in my floor lamp in my living room has lasted me nearly 2 years already.

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I use two of these in a Broan Allure hood, which has two brightness levels. We never turn the lights off. They are usually on the low setting, and occasionally switched to high. They are rated at 2500 hours presumably on full power. That's about 3.5 months, but I expected to get longer use because they are almost always dimmed.

I started using these bulbs on May 25 of last year, and today is March 17 and the first one has gone out (the other is still going strong). That's nearly 10 months; exactly 296 days, or 7,104 hours of continual use on the dim and occasional bright setting.

The light is warmer than I expected, which is nice. At night, when all the lights are out except these, the kitchen has a nice warm feel. The light spreads out very evenly and the light of the two bulbs blend into each other nicely you don't really notice that the light is coming from two bulbs which are 20 inches apart. Our previous hood had a single light, and we were concerned that the two-lamp hood would produce two distinct hot spots, but this is not the case.

One reviewer said the bulbs are 2.75 inches in diameter. Mine are exactly 2.5 inches and fit my Broan Allure hood with room to spare.