On Jan 23, 4:44*pm, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:00:38 -0800 (PST), George Herold

wrote:

Nice artcile Phil, *But don't worry about the legislature's doing
anything. *What's needed is some lawayer to get a hold of it and sue
the manufacturers.

(That's the US way :^)

George H.

The offshore manufacturers are probably not easy to get substantial
judgements against- but the stores, especially those who do their own
importing, have deep pockets and can't easily escape.

Grin sure sue everyone,

They do have a good defense though- if it has safety agency approval,
it's presumed to be safe. Maybe report it to the safety agencies- but
I don't see anthing there that would really raise the alarm-
incadescents break and short internally and implode from time to time,
and none of the burn- through incidents shows support of combustion.
Any fixture designed for a normal incandescent ought not to burn the
office or house down. The one that 'exploded' is the closest one- the
mfr may have substituted a cheaper non-fiberglass sleeving on that
diode.

OK maybe it will be the insurance company lawyers sueing for fire
damage.

I haven't had many problems with cfl's, except for globe units in the
(steamy?) bathroom.

George H.