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Generally the reason is because of too much heat from the incandescent bulb. Other reasons would be the amperage would exceed the wiring or the lamp socket. Using ohms law (power or watts = amperage times voltage), a 150 watt lamp would take 1.25 amps. A 120 watt bulb would take 1.0 amps. Probably in your question the engineer was concerned with heat instead of amps.

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