50 Watt PAR20 Narrow Flood Light Bulb / 30 Degree Beam Spread / 120 Volt / 50PAR20

Comment: This is a light bulb. When you turn it on it works. It's a special light bulb so read the information carefully before you buy it. For example, you don't want to install it in your bedside reading lamp unless you like to lie in bed looking at a circle of light on the ceiling. Think of this light bulb like you would a flashlight. The light goes where you point it and nowhere else. If that's what you want it's a wonderful light bulb. It works!

Comment: Very poor quality. 2 of the 4 bulbs I ordered burnt out in one week so I returned them all.

Comment: These specialty bulbs, difficult to find in the specific model found on Amazon, give a directed light focused well with a recessed fixture. Although rated only 5000 hours, needn't burn them at full brightness rarely as the give off good bright light with dissipation on arrival at object. They are much cheaper than buying them at the store, come well packaged. Although incandescent lights in the future will become dinosaurs, they will last a long time if your rheostat is adjusted downwards and makes them somewhat energy efficient and will prolong the life of the bulb.

Comment: I have to use halogen lighting in my system because the dimmers are not compatible with compact florescent, so these bulbs are golden. It's a lightbult, name brand, and it does have the microlenses on the glass - the spread is nice, and the price is right. This is almost 10 dollars a bulb from the home improvement store and there is no shipping from the supplier amazon selected.

If you can't go CF for energy savings, then this is a great option. I tried the CFs for dimmers but they created a buzz on my audio video system so back to halogen again for now. Some day these will be obsolete.

Comment: Living in the boonies, I like to have a lot of light bulbs on hand. When we bought a new ceiling light fixture for our kitchen we tried a number of bulbs in it. Our light fixture hangs to a little more than 6' above the floor and has two "cans" 1' apart for the two light bulbs. The cans are nearly cone-shaped. They are a matte white inside. The fixture calls for two 50-watt R20 bulbs. Bulbs that are length 20 are just right. 30 length bulbs hang down too low below the cans.

This light bulb worked better than P20 because it has a relatively flat lens, and has a very narrow glass edge that lets out the right amount of light below the "can". The matte white finish inside the cones does not reflect well. The texture on the inside of the lens diffuses the light very nicely and minimizes glare. The two 50-watt light bulbs gave more light than other styles of bulbs that we had on hand.

I could not find this bulb in any local store, thus here I am at amazon and glad to find it.

If you are replacing a bulb, you will find "Capsylite" in the center of the lens. Very hard to read. You will also see "narrow flood" indicated by the "NFL" on the metal side in the middle of the bulb specs.