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Jeff Jonas Jeff Jonas is offline
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Default Strange CFL Failure Mode

Yep, soon they'll be considered as dangerous as incandescent lamps
that burn fingers, start fires, explode, send molten glass and
tungsten shooting about and electrocute those who try to change the bulb.


Please don't say that too loud, lest the electrician's union
place a seal and/or lock on every fixture
to assure only a licensed union electrician ever changes a lamp.
Don't laugh. With all the microcontrollers embedded into everything,
it's possible to add lockout codes so only authorized people may restart it,
just like you car's "service required" light and reset code.

It's bad enough my TV, monitor, radio and such all say
"No user servicable parts inside".
Pray, don't let that happen to my home too.

My my, Terry. You do live an interesting and dangerous life ... During my
many years of shuffling around on this little orb of ours, I don't think I
have ever had a domestic incandescent light bulb start a fire, explode ...


I had a night light bulb shatter, fresh from the package.
I'd say that counts as an explosion.
I swore off dollar store bulbs ever since.

As to fires, I refuse to use lamps over 100 watts at home,
thus avoiding the 300-500 watt halogen torchiere fires
that were terribly common for a while.
The closest I came to a lamp induced fire was a plastic figurine
melting and smoking from being too close to a reflector halogen lamp.