Looking for edison bulbs. What sizes fit what?
E26, e27? What fits in a regular house lamp that a normal 60 watt would?
Looking for all terms of size from a Sentsy to porch light. Sentsy is small,
Porch is medium, house lamp is large.
Easier to order pants.

On 10/24/20 8:50 AM, Thomas wrote:
Looking for edison bulbs. What sizes fit what?
E26, e27? What fits in a regular house lamp that a normal 60 watt would?
Looking for all terms of size from a Sentsy to porch light. Sentsy is small,
Porch is medium, house lamp is large.
Easier to order pants.

Maybe it would be better if you read this.
https://www.superbrightleds.com/blog/understanding-light-bulb-base-types-screw-bases/5537/

On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 10:05:41 AM UTC-4, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 10/24/20 8:50 AM, Thomas wrote:
Looking for edison bulbs. What sizes fit what?
E26, e27? What fits in a regular house lamp that a normal 60 watt would?
Looking for all terms of size from a Sentsy to porch light. Sentsy is small,
Porch is medium, house lamp is large.
Easier to order pants.

Maybe it would be better if you read this.
https://www.superbrightleds.com/blog/understanding-light-bulb-base-types-screw-bases/5537/
I must be an idiot. I still gained nothing. I have e26 in a porch light which is smaller than a regular lampstand house bulb. Time to get out a caliper.

Ok. Got it. Thanks Dean.

On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 11:02:02 AM UTC-4, Thomas wrote:
On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 10:05:41 AM UTC-4, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 10/24/20 8:50 AM, Thomas wrote:
Looking for edison bulbs. What sizes fit what?
E26, e27? What fits in a regular house lamp that a normal 60 watt would?

E26 are US, E27 are European.

We have floor lamps of both size from when we lived overseas. The European lamps are much higher quality (and were probably much more expensive). In my experience a US E26 bulb will work in a German E27 fixture, sometimes. And sometimes not. I think there is sufficient manufacturing variability in US E26 bulbs that sometimes they are a bit oversize and work fine, sometimes a bit undersize and don't work. I've noticed more problems with CFL and LED than incandescent.

On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:32:28 -0700 (PDT), TimR
wrote:

On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 11:02:02 AM UTC-4, Thomas wrote:
On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 10:05:41 AM UTC-4, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 10/24/20 8:50 AM, Thomas wrote:
Looking for edison bulbs. What sizes fit what?
E26, e27? What fits in a regular house lamp that a normal 60 watt would?

E26 are US, E27 are European.

ACTUALLY - e26 is 120 volt, E27 is 240 - but you've got the right
idea.
Generally "world market" sockets are E27 - virtually all E26 bulbs
will work in virtually all E27 sockets - just don't torque them too
tight.
With LED bulbs, MANY are "universal " - 84 -260 volt - and generally
have E26-ish bases - mabee a bit larger, but smaller than E27 - and
they MAY be a bit snug in an old E26 socket.

The spec is E for "Edison" followed by the thread size in MM.

We have floor lamps of both size from when we lived overseas. The European lamps are much higher quality (and were probably much more expensive). In my experience a US E26 bulb will work in a German E27 fixture, sometimes. And sometimes not. I think there is sufficient manufacturing variability in US E26 bulbs that sometimes they are a bit oversize and work fine, sometimes a bit undersize and don't work. I've noticed more problems with CFL and LED than incandescent.

On Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 2:28:08 PM UTC-4, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:32:28 -0700 (PDT), TimR
wrote:

On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 11:02:02 AM UTC-4, Thomas wrote:
On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 10:05:41 AM UTC-4, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 10/24/20 8:50 AM, Thomas wrote:
Looking for edison bulbs. What sizes fit what?
E26, e27? What fits in a regular house lamp that a normal 60 watt would?

E26 are US, E27 are European.

ACTUALLY - e26 is 120 volt, E27 is 240 - but you've got the right
idea.
Generally "world market" sockets are E27 - virtually all E26 bulbs
will work in virtually all E27 sockets - just don't torque them too
tight.
With LED bulbs, MANY are "universal " - 84 -260 volt - and generally
have E26-ish bases - mabee a bit larger, but smaller than E27 - and
they MAY be a bit snug in an old E26 socket.


Thanks, I didn't know that about LEDs. I've tried lots of CFLs in my favorite German floor lamp and had no luck. I even took the whole think apart thinking it might be a bad connection or switch, and the build quality is impressive.

So just now I got a no-name store brand LED out of the box and tried it, works fine.

On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:28:01 -0400, Clare Snyder posted for all of us to
digest...

ACTUALLY - e26 is 120 volt, E27 is 240 - but you've got the right
idea.
Generally "world market" sockets are E27 - virtually all E26 bulbs
will work in virtually all E27 sockets - just don't torque them too
tight.
With LED bulbs, MANY are "universal " - 84 -260 volt - and generally
have E26-ish bases - mabee a bit larger, but smaller than E27 - and
they MAY be a bit snug in an old E26 socket.

The spec is E for "Edison" followed by the thread size in MM.


Clare, thanks for that info. My "brain" hurts

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Tekkie