Changing Up My Darkroom and Home Studio

MattKing said:

I think we have those bulbs in our dining room chandelier
Is the colour temperature of the light critical for you? If not, they look like fairly standard chandelier bulbs, and as a special purpose bulb, they should still be available in incandescent.
Our chandelier bulbs are about $2 each at the Dollar store

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Yeah, I see chandelier bulbs as cheap as 69 cents on Amazon.... BUT nothing E14 (European) thread, and I see nothing but LED type. If I can find some cheap, I will load up the truck as they say. I will be looking -everywhere- in our local stores, maybe some old incandescent stock is still around. And nothing on Ebay right now, but now I know what I'm looking for!

But Thanks anyway Matt

Nokton48 said:

Looks like they are DISCONTINUED, being replaced with LED equivilents.

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So replace them with the modern LED ones. For a modeling light, it doesn't matter anyway and the lower power dissipation is only an advantage.

What @koraks said,
Remember that if the modeling light controls include a dimmer, make sure the bulb you choose is dimmable.
You may find that the behavior of dimmable LED bulbs takes a bit of adjustment.

Perhaps in the future I will try the dimmable LED's. I will have eight of the B&H supplied incandescent bulbs in house shortly, these have 1400 hour ratings, so I shouldn't need any more bulbs for quite a while. My immediate goal is to restore the Boxlite to original full Broncolor factory USA functionality. Thanks Guys for responding

This isn't like a Pulso or Primo head with which I am quite familiar; According to the instructions, it has additional circuitry inside, including caps!! I believe. Will open it up with great care.

Broncolor Website Boxlite 40 Bulbs by Nokton48, on Flickr

FEDEX delivered one bulb today, the same torpedo variety. Came from MAC who are the USA Broncolor Distributor. Looks like my other five will be on BACKORDER, hope they will be able to restock these....