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Thread ID: 125174	2012-06-11 08:44:00	Energy saver bulbs	lakewoodlady (103)	PC World Chat

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1281105	2012-06-11 22:37:00	I'm waiting for LED bulbs to become affordable, all the advantages of CFL and none of the disadvantages. Currently though they just cost way too much. I put CFLs all through my house when I bought it in 1999, one failed within a few days and about 3 have failed since. The rest are still going 13 years later. I've only broken one once and just cleaned it up with a brush and shovel, I hadn't heard about the mercury content at that stage.	dugimodo (138)
1281106	2012-06-12 01:10:00	Those CFL energy saver lamps are cheap as heck and sometimes don't even last as long as incandescent. Especially if you stuff them inside a small fitting and let them overheat.	Agent_24 (57)
1281107	2012-06-12 07:14:00	While your at it call in OSH as well. Jezz guys . Just clean the thing up.. If you all that concerned just don't buy them.. Actually paulw the Fire Service concern is from the same concern that advises you to check your smoke alarms. Faulty electrical goods are sadly to common and bulbs are mass marketed so a few bad batches get through. The quicker an advisory notice gets issued the less risk of fire. Guess who attends a fire? Before you say thats their job just remember how fast fire spreads and the risk to life and those who put themselves at risk! Fire Prevention is better that fighting a fire.	coldfront (15814)
1281108	2012-06-12 07:19:00	This said the standard ones have issues too. Mum turned on the lights in the dining room one saturday morning while I was asleep, it was one of those candle shaped bulbs, just a 60 watter. The damn thing literally blew its cap and shot its bolt. The glass part shot off the base with a very loud pop. Fortunately didn't shatter when it hit the floor. Why were you sleeping in the dining room??	Richard (739)
1281109	2012-06-12 12:05:00	Great to see all those comments! I climbed up on a chair today and pulled the offending bulb out of the socket without busting it, I am happy to say that the socket seems perfectly OK which is good. The top of the bulb was pretty munted though, being all icky black and yellow colours, and a little bit melted looking. Think I'll get a normal bulb tomorrow to replace it. LL	lakewoodlady (103)
1281110	2012-06-13 16:11:00	While your at it call in OSH as well. Jezz guys . Just clean the thing up.. If you all that concerned just don't buy them.. "...just don't buy them" isn't much of an option here in the US - especially in California where the tungsten bulbs are mostly outlawed or no longer available since the stock ran out, and youse guys know that as California goes, so goes New Zealand. I (OTOH) have stockpiled several cases of 100W, 75W, 60W and 40W bulbs of all sorts of designs (candelabra, spinneret, globe, tapered globes, wobble-flame style, C7½, C3 and of course the old standby: nightlight bulbs, in clear, red, blue and green). I refuse to knuckle under and buy the new stuff, and at my age I may not ever need to buy another bulb in my lifetime. Great to see all those comments! I climbed up on a chair today and pulled the offending bulb out of the socket without busting it, I am happy to say that the socket seems perfectly OK which is good. The top of the bulb was pretty munted (huh?) though, being all icky black and yellow colours (sic), and a little bit melted looking. Think I'll get a normal bulb tomorrow to replace it. LL Prolly just the power-supply/transformer or rectifier thing-y - whatever they need or use inside that lower shell. You may not be contaminated with mercury, aerial suspended or otherwise. Good on ya otherwise. 'Light Bulb Changing 1A - The Enigma' should be taught at the lowest possible level of public education.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1281111	2012-06-13 21:34:00	They do seems to be getting better. But I wonder if the cost of their manufacture is really worth the energy we save. Many countries are phasing tungsten halogen lamps out, so soon we won't be able to buy them.	Digby (677)
1281112	2012-06-13 22:15:00	Yes there was really no need for the labour government to bring in a law to ban incandesent light bulbs, as the demand for them dwindles, they will no longer be worth while making. :)	Trev (427)
1281113	2012-06-14 02:51:00	Why were you sleeping in the dining room?? Some people like hard beds, is one possibility!	Cicero (40)
1281114	2012-06-14 06:01:00	@ SurferJoe Munted from the urban dictionary (www.urbandictionary.com) (1) adj. refers to the property of an object (or person) as broken, ruined, significantly damaged, disfigured or deformed, often to the extent that it is not reversable or repairable. (2) adj. an extreme state of intoxication by way of drugs or alcohol such that the subject's ability to perform basic tasks such as walking and talking are significantly impared.	Morgenmuffel (187)
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