Lightbulbs !!!!

Blackpool_Saver

I care, I really care.

Now why do bulbs go bang ALL THE TIME ????

Azari

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

I care, I really care.

OK, <sob>, it's true, <sob>, I admit it, <sob>, I really didn't know, <sob>.

All this time <sob>, I've had pile and piles of old fridges in my back garden, <sob>, and every time I've wanted a light, <sob, blows nose>, I've been extracting the CFC's from the heat exchanger and trying to turn them on <sob>.

No wonder I spent so much time in the dark.

Now why do bulbs go bang ALL THE TIME ????

They don't - unless the actual bulb cracks. In an ordinary incandescent lamp, if the filament shorts you can get a flash with a sound like an old bulb flash firing.

If you want to know what a bulb really going bang is like, imagine standing on the stage entirely alone (auditorium and back stage completely empty), checking some lighting at two o'clock in the morning, when a 1Kw spot decides to call it a day in an unusually categorical manner. That thing really did go bang and shortly afterwards there was the sound of a hundred pieces glass hitting the stage. (Fortunately it didn't plunge everything into darkness as there were a lot of other lights on but I can guarantee it made me jump!)

aliasojo

I don't care what the things are made of, I just want to know why they've got so flipping expensive these days!

I need to buy several E14's, probably energy saving ones and they just seem to be silly prices.

/grump

robatwork

I blame Edison.

Was always a Tesla man myself.