"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message ...
The danger is that if the contacts on the base of the bulb are designed
differently, you could dead short the circuit.

No possibility: think about it. Not if the bulb were designed for a
conventional socket. Even if it shorted the two center contacts, the
only thing you would be shorting out is the two wires from the
switched side of the control, and it would switch on-on-off-off.

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Chris Green