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I like the clamps on lights for regular bulbs I get from Home Depot. They have two kinds. Get the one with the 15' cord and the heavy duty clamp. This way, I can mount them high up out of the way. I use either a spiral florescent bulb or a halogen.
Being an electrician, I run extinction cords and three way adapters and then more ext. cords.
Also I've adapted one of those 20,000 lumen mercury vapor lamps, whoops, luminaires.
~Peter

In the past when I was working for my dads company, he did alot of residential rewires, I would install a phenolic or porcelan keyless lampholder first thing in an attic after installing the new service. Otherwise, I like to use a flourescent drop light, only problem is the handle where the ballast is located can get rather hot but not as hot as an incandescent. Had a bad experience once with incand. drop light in an attic when a helper left it laying in some blown in cellulose, it heated the plastic shroud and had a small spot of the cellulose smoldering. No more incand. for me and my helper got a talking to.