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What effect does voltage have on a light bulb?

April 26, 2017light bulb voltage

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What effect does voltage have on a light bulb?

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The performance of a light bulb is affected by a change from its rated voltage as depicted by the graph: Awful ASCII rendering of a graph. A nice, alternative, graphical rendering by the FAQ author provided courtesy of Myra Van Inwegen on her website. Note: this graph depicts curves derived from the equations below, but may not show all curves from the following formulae.