The heat lamp would be installed where it is needed. The only place the lamp is not permitted to be placed is over a doors swing radius. This is in the electrical code to prevent a door that is left opened and in a position directly under the lamp. The heat from the lamp has the ability to raise the temperature of the door to its combustion point and set it alight.
An incandescent lamp is not cool to the touch unless it is an extremely low wattage. Heat given off by incandescent lamps is one of the drawbacks of the lamp. Total overall efficiency is reduced by the wasted heat.
A bulb in a lamp converts electric energy into light and heat energy.
Mostly heat, but that heat causes a filament to glow, which makes light.
You sure can, it's been done, and the bathroom didn't blow up, the bathroom was just extremely bright Some sockets, though, do have a maximum wattage and/or a maximum heat tolerance that needs to be followed to avoid the risk of fire in the wiring and ceiling. It won't blow up, but you might start a fire. Heat lamps should have a porcelain socket and heat resistant insulation.
The vertical distance from the lamp to the ceiling is 0.5m. This calculation can be made by using the properties of a right-angled triangle where the two chains represent the hypotenuse and the horizontal distance between the two chains represents one of the legs.
over the toilet
Above where you stand or sit when you are wet and cold in the bathroom after bathing or showering. Not in the shower area itself.
Door (front door)
Heat lamps are often installed in bathroom ceilings. You can find a variety of fixtures from a single bulb heat lamp fixture to a combo heat lamp vent fan and ceiling light. Heat lamps require a timer on the switch so they will automatically turn off if left unattended.
I installed mine just out the shower... where I dry off... its warm
Anyplace but above the tub/shower. The best places would be about the commode or vanity. Center of the bathroom is another good location. In the place of the existing fan is the easiest. Use a combination fan heat lamp.
The force responsible for holding up a lamp hanging from the ceiling is called tension force.
A ceiling heat lamp should be placed over an empty space so that it doesn't overheat anything in the room. Putting the heat lamp over the shower rod could start a fire and over a toilet seat could make the seat too warm and burn someone.
One can install a bathroom heat lamp remove the existing fixture, open up the junction box, and connect the necessary wires together with that of the heat lamp, neatly tuck them away and close. One can find more detailed information on these from: eHow.
No problem. But watch the wattage on the bulbs. The heat is going to go the opposite direction. And the lamp is ment to be in the opposite stress position so that it could be much less stable than when sitting. But wiring wise it is the same, just wire the two wires in the ceiling to the two on the lamp. And there may be issues with code requirements. Overall it is better to be safe than sorry and use a lamp designed for the ceiling.
This is old school technology and hasn't been done for years in construction. What used to happen, the bathroom being a small room didn't have much ceiling area. Centrally locating the heat lamp fixture to a good position sometimes positioned the fixture in the radius of the in-swinging bathroom door. On many occasions the door was left under the heat lamp with the lamp on and the door caught fire from the build up of heat from the lamp. The electrical code made a revision to keep the fixture out of the arc radius of the door and this made for some strange locations of the fixture. The installing of heat lamp fixtures has just gone out of favour. It has been replaced with in floor heating in bathrooms.
If by light you meant a heat lamp then yes they do. They would need a heat lamp until they are fully feathered.