I haven't been too impressed with the quality of lighting fixtures offered at the big box stores. They seem adequate for rental properties, where tenants are likely to damage them in a few years anyway. It's not for everyone, but you might try shopping garage sales in older neighborhoods for fixtures. When young folks buy old houses they often want to "update" them. They then replace high quality 40-60 year old fixtures with big box store junk. A few dollars and a little rewiring, and you have a fixture good for another 40-60 years of service. But I have to admit, you're not too likely to find track lighting this way. :)

There should be a track adaptor that is sold by Bellacor that would allow you to wire the pendant into it and then put it on the track. I would contact them and find out if they have this item. If they do not stock this time, make sure that you know the maker of the track. I would then search the manufacturers website to find out the name of a lighting showroom near you that stocks the track and call them to see if they stock the adaptor.

A little warning to anyone looking to stock up on cases of incandescent bulbs: The long-life versions have a noticeably more orange color temperature, and also put out slightly less light as well. For example, a 100 Watt bulb rated for 1500 hours has a color temperature of about 2700K and only puts out 1500 lumens. The higher-efficiency 100 Watt bulbs that only have a 750 hour lifespan rating are closer to a 2900K color temperature and put out 1600-1650 lumens of light. For those of you who are curious, you may be wondering what it is exactly that makes these two bulbs different. How do they get one to glow at a slightly higher temperature? Well, they basically have the same resistance value (otherwise the Wattage would be different), but the longer-life filament has a slightly longer length and is not as thin. So what about "halogen" bulbs? Well, technically halogen is a form of incandescent; it has a glowing hot incandescent filament. The difference is that the filament is located inside a small fused-quartz capsule which contains halogen vapor to help allow the filament to have a longer lifespan. Usually halogen bulbs are designed to both last longer and put out slightly brighter whiter colored light than their regular incandescent counterparts. Halogen does carry some additional potential dangers though (too complicated to explain in detail here) but the 72 Watt style bulb people are now commonly buying mostly mitigates these hazards. In the old days, if anyone remembers, sometimes the light from halogen bulbs had just a slight pinkish tint. This was due to too much halogen (in this case iodine) being placed in the inner capsule during manufacturing. In North America, the 72 Watt halogen replacement bulb has a color temperature of about 2970K, so it's a noticeably whiter color of light than some of the older incandescent bulbs. Maybe I am being a little trifling into details, but one difference I have noticed is that the lifespan of these new halogen "energy saver" bulbs will be dramatically cut short if the bulb is operated on its side, because the white-hot filament will gradually sag under its own weight until it finally breaks. The strength of the tungsten filament weakens at those extremely high temperatures. Just something good to know, that some people might want to take into consideration if they are wondering why their bulb keeps burning out.

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