I've got a hanging light fixture in which I can't get CFL bulbs to
work. They work fine screwed upside down in my garage light
sockets, the bulb is confirmed working in other lamps.

Standard bulbs work fine in this same hanging fixture. Any
theories as
to why the CFL bulbs don't want to work in it?


Are you sure that the receptacle in the fixture is allowing the CFL to screw
all the way down to make contact at the bottom? Sometimes the design of the
fixture isn't large enough to permit the larger base (just above the CFL's
screw-in part) to fit alll the way in. It will screw in almost all the way,
but not quite, and the bottom contact of the CFL doesn't touch the bottom of
the socket.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti ~materialistic,
otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world
is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with
Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed
slime. ~Edward Abbey