This 500-watt mogul screw-base halogen lamp is the versatile middleweight of the JT-style tube lamp family, giving lanterns, mogul softboxes, and space-light style fixtures a healthy half-K of clean 3200K tungsten light. When a 1K lamp is too hot for the room or the ratio, this is the bulb that brings a big soft rig down to a controllable level without changing any hardware.
Gaffers running mogul-socket lanterns typically carry this wattage alongside the 1K and 2K versions so each fixture can be tuned to the scene. At 500 watts, a fabric lantern becomes a gentle overhead ambience source for night interiors, a soft key for close work, or a comfortable level for small rooms where bigger lamps would force everything through scrims and dimmers. The lamp's true 3200K color temperature makes it a precise match for the rest of a tungsten package, and its clear tubular envelope burns in any position, so it rigs vertically in hanging lanterns or horizontally in modified fixtures with equal confidence. Rated lamp life in this class is long for halogen, but on-set handling is always the real risk, so spares belong in the kit.
Standard halogen care applies: gloves or a cloth when handling, full cool-down before re-lamping, and a quick check that the fixture and socket are rated for the load.
• Wattage: 500W at 120V
• Type: tungsten-halogen tube lamp (JT style)
• Base: mogul screw for mogul-socket fixtures
• Color temperature: 3200K true tungsten
• Burns in any position for flexible rigging
• Perfect step-down lamp for lantern and softbox rigs
500-watt mogul base bulbs are stocked for purchase at Lightbulb Rentals in NYC, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh and can be added to any rental order along with the rest of your lighting package. Many gaffers order all three JT wattages together so every mogul fixture in the package can be re-tuned on set in a matter of seconds.
