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Default Screw in flourescent light bulbs.


"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:39:33 -0000, "ian field"
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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Peter Hucker wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:56:05 -0000, Michael A. Terrell
wrote:


Peter Hucker wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:24:05 -0000, Michael A. Terrell
wrote:


Peter Hucker wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:16:06 -0000, Michael A. Terrell
wrote:


Peter Hucker wrote:

I don't get how you manage to overheat something with a
quarter
of the heat input, no.


You really are dense, aren't you? The CFL isn't rated to
operate
anywhere near the temperature an incandescent lamp produces.
It
isn't
glass metal & high temperature cement. Some parts aren't even
rated to
stand boiling water. Some fixtures hold in more heat than
others. They
are designed to handle the extra heat. Put a wimpy CFL inside
that
fixture and it will die a quick death. Sometimes with a free
lightshow
& fireworks.

I've got a CFL (100watt equivalent) in a completely enclosed
glass
fitting in the bathroom. It has lasted just fine.

I don't think I'd want a fitting that could hold the heat enough
to
make a CFL get to 100C. That would mean an incandescent would
get
a lot hotter than that! What of the surrounding stuff, like the
ceiling?


You really are dense, aren't you? The fixtures ARE DESIGNED
FOR
THE
HIGHER OPERATING TEMPERATURE.

Yes, and so was Chernobyl. I prefer not to have things that hot
inside my house.


Well, we don't have to worry about any of your bright ideas
setting
the world on fire. For someone who claims to have a honors degree in
Physuics, you don't know anything. Do you ever cook anything, or do
you
live on birdseed?

An oven is not mounted on the ceiling. An oven does not have plastic
parts (in the actual light socket) that can become brittle with age and
heat.


You said: " I prefer not to have things that hot inside my house.",
so you are either quite ignorant, or just another liar.


PHucker frequently get confused about something he or someone else has
said,
then gets in an argument with anyone who corrects him.


It's to garner attention/troll. I've seen Peter post on the upwards of
400 times a day. I don't know him but one could assume that someone
with that much time to spend on a PC could be severely disabled and
only be able to communicate over the internet with a diverse group of
people.


He claims to be in full time employment as tech support in a computer firm
or some such, I've seen him post on 24hoursupport.helpdesk - but only to
make silly comments, never to help anyone.

If you've noticed the petersparrots.com in his sig file, that's because he
breeds and sells parrots (probably on the black).

On alt.binaries.chatter he frequently goes on about the flash car he has and
braggs about what pride he takes in his appalling driving - routinely
running red lights and speeding whenever his satnav said no speed cameras,
at one point he was openly bragging about speeding in a car with defective
ABS, which he'd taken the bulb out of the warning light to scam it through
the MOT test.

All said and done, I'll concede he might be not well in the head.