Is a 100-watt infrared bulb hotter than a 100-watt regular bulb?

[BWchicken]

I am going to get one of those red nocturnal heat bulbs for reptiles to put in my indoor brooder. They come in 50, 75 and 100 watts. They are infrared, and I'm wondering if they produce more heat than a regular incandescent bulb of the same wattage. I'm looking for about the same heat output as a regular 100-watt light bulb but I want to get the infrared reptile bulbs because they're red and made for heating.

Thanks!

 

[Mahonri]

I don't know.

What I do know is that the chicks are more calm with the red light.... and they sleep better.

 

[BWchicken]

Thanks for confirming that Mahonri, that's what I was thinking too from what I've read on here. I have a 250-watt red heat lamp, but that would be way too much wattage for indoors in a small room. The only other bulbs I can find that are red is the infrared nocturnal heat bulbs for reptiles at the pet store. I'm just not sure which wattage to get in an infrared. Anyone know if they run much hotter than a regular light bulb?

 

[Freyja]

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I think they'd be about the same and if they were different it shouldn't be by much. While we use incandescent lights for their visible light spectrum, most of the energy is actually given off in the near infrared range as heat. In other words, the heat you feel from an incandescent light is due to the infrared waves.

I used a 100W infrared with the first brooder which was also indoors and moved it up and down as needed (down at night and up as the day -- and the house -- got warmer). If I ever brood chicks again I will get a higher wattage bulb and either make a dimmer switch or get a lamp with a dimmer switch already built in (like the one I saw in the reptile aisle after I bought my light & infrared bulb). Would have been much easier!

 

[silkiechicken]

The 100W infared will give out more heat energy per unit of wattage versus a 100W regular bulb per wattage. Kind of how a 100W regular bulb runs hotter than 100W fluorescent. The difference however, probably isn't that great between the infared vs regular. That said, I only use 100W regular bulb on day old chicks to maybe a week old and move to a 60W... and I brood outside, when day/night temps are in the 40's.

 

[cmom]

I use a regular incandescent bulb too. When the chicks are small I don't think color matters much as they sleep, eat and poop off and on dayime and at night. I have my brooder in their coop.