On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:32:45 +0100, "Christian McArdle"
wrote:

| What's the normal failure mode for low energy lamps? I have (had!) an
| Osram Dulux 20W/827 lamp just above me and all of a sudden it failed -
| no flickering, no dimming - it just went out!
|
|There are many failure modes. Simply not working at all is the most common,
|IME.

IME they do not fail at all, well *very* rarely. After running the whole
house on low energy bulbs except for a few long flourescents, for mumble
years I have last week had my first failure, a 23 watt bulb at the top of
the stairs, it just stopped working. Highly chuffed with the long life
of these lamps, IME well in excess of the advertised 10,000 hours.
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