05-12-2008, 06:16 PM
It's not the amount of heat that is the issue, it's the sensitivity of the electronic components in the base to any kind of heat. An incandescent bulb is in reality a simple electric heater (glowing resistive element) that happens to throw off a little light along with all that heat (that's why it is so inefficient). Since it is only a crude piece of resistive wire strung between the terminals it has no sensitive components to get fried.