whisky-dave wrote:
"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:18:19 -0000 Whisky-dave wrote :
A lot of the heat generated in a bulb is in the filament and doesn't
get passed on very far even though the glass gets quite hot, there's
not usualy enough air circulation to take theheat from the bulb.
If that were so, the bulb would just get hotter and hotter!

It does that's why you usually can't remove an incandescant bulb from it's
holder/socket until it's been off a while. Which isn't such a problem with
CFL or
LEDs.



Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

So if the heat can't escape, how does it cool down, ever?