Amazon Heat Lamp Review

Our review of the Lucky Herp 150W Ceramic Heat Emitter

Chuck

1/18/20252 min read

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On another site of ours we shared the link on these little ceramic heaters. They fit a standard lamp socket, and put out heat with out light. You can pick up a 2 pack at Amazon for about $16.00

So how did they work? Over all quiet well. We used them in our insulated well house and in our small greenhouse we put cactus in. While they got very warm, much warmer than our 150 watt bulbs. They didn't transfer the heat has well as the regular lights. The ceramic bulbs radiate heat in pretty much a straight line. So if you want to warm something warmed it needs to be pointed at. The heat lamp, while on paper not as efficient, warms a wider area through infrared light transfer. The ceramic "light" measured 500 deg F while the heat lamp was about 300. Both measured 3 inches from the surface of the light.

Now 3 inches from the side of the lamps, the heat lamp was 250 deg and the ceramic was 145. At 1 foot from the center of each light, the ceramic was 200 and the heat lamp was the same. At a foot from the sides the ceramic was 100 degrees and the glass heat lamp was at 200. And at 2 feet the ceramic was down to 78 and the glass lamp was at a toasty 100. By 3 feet the ceramic was at 45 degrees the ambient temperature and the light bulb heat lamp was at 83.

So it seems that the photons of the actual light carry the heat better than straight infrared energy of the ceramic bulb. But if you place the ceramic in extra large reflector it directs the heat much better. At almost 4 feet I measured 88 degrees, vs the 45 of the bulb by itself.

To keep things fair I put the heat lamp in the reflector and it registered 115 degrees at 4 feet.

Life span.

The Ceramic bulb should last about 25000 hours. Where the heat lamp should be about 1400. One of the bulbs in the green house failed at about 800 hours, or 40 days, The one in the well is still cooking along. The one in the well house does heat better. We have one of those "Styrofoam" rocks. It has about 2.5 inches of foam on the top and 1.5 on the sides. One morning it was 18 degrees here in SC and the well house was at 52. No burst pipes here!

Are these little things worth the cost? Yes and no. For small green house heat not so much. Lights are better for us. Adding a reflector helped a lot. Adding a small fan in front may do better. Now hanging one in chicken coop, 2 feet above the birds. Perfect. So would we buy them again? Now that I know the limitations? Sure we'll order another couple