Incandescent lighting and xenon lighting can be used in countless lighting applications including cabinet lighting, desk lighting, cove lighting showcase lighting and picture lighting. Incandescent lights are pretty much all-purpose light bulbs that are ideal for soft lighting. Xenon lights are often employed as headlights for luxury automobiles. According to XenonLightShid.com, xenon headlights are three times brighter and produce clearer visibility than any other type of headlight.
Older versions of incandescent light bulbs features vacuums instead of fill gases. Nowadays, fill gases such as argon are employed in incandescent bulbs to keep the filament from burning out, according to Reader's Digest. Filling the bulb with an inert gas decreases tungsten evaporation, according to the Great Internet Light Bulb Book. Certain gases draw heat away from filament. Filling a bulb with a premium fill gas such as xenon greatly increases the efficiency of the bulb.
Each type of light bulb is manufactured to last for a certain amount of hours. According to Reader's Digest, a typical 75-watt incandescent light bulb that is used regularly can last for anywhere between 750 and 1,000 hours. Regularly operated xenon light bulbs are rated to last for anywhere between 8,000 and 20,000 hours if they are properly maintained, according to Directory M.
Incandescent bulbs have the benefit of being the most common and widely used types of light bulbs in the world. Also, incandescent light bulbs are the cheapest types of light bulbs on the market. Directory M claims that the light emitted by xenon light bulbs has a cooler appearance than the light emitted by incandescent light bulbs, which helps with night visibility.
A 75-watt incandescent light bulb that is regularly operated can cost the consumer around $30 in electricity per year according to U.S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station. Xenon lights require 25 percent less power than incandescent lights despite the fact that they produce around 25 percent more light.