CFLs can catch fire. Murder, death, kill. Your dog, too.
"Compact fluorescent lamps, which will gradually replace traditional
incandescent bulbs, are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned... when a CFL can no longer produce light, the electronics in its base will still try to function, sometimes leading to overheating, smoke and fire." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1hjrLP2Ar |
CFLs can catch fire. Murder, death, kill. Your dog, too.
"HeyBub" wrote in message ... "Compact fluorescent lamps, which will gradually replace traditional incandescent bulbs, are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned... when a CFL can no longer produce light, the electronics in its base will still try to function, sometimes leading to overheating, smoke and fire." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1hjrLP2Ar Rule 1. Anything electrical can catch fire (and will at some point). Rule 2. Anything hot (like the surface of a light bulb) can start fires (and will at some point). CFLs have a long way to go to catch up with the number of fires started by incandescent bulbs including the super-hot linear halogen lamps that used to be used in torchieres. Read about this doozy of a fire caused by a halogen lamp -- and which resulted in the UL requirement that all torchiers using halogen lamps were required to have guards over the lamp and that existing torchiers had to be retrofitted. http://articles.latimes.com/1997-01-...on-s-apartment See the CU/UL report on the CFL safety subject: http://174.129.132.250/safety/2010/0...ul-report.html Tomsic |
CFLs can catch fire. Murder, death, kill. Your dog, too.
On 12/27/2011 8:59 AM, . wrote:
.... Rule 1. Anything electrical can catch fire (and will at some point). Rule 2. Anything hot (like the surface of a light bulb) can start fires (and will at some point). .... Neither of those assertions (nor their corollaries are true. -- |
CFLs can catch fire. Murder, death, kill. Your dog, too.
.. wrote the following:
"HeyBub" wrote in message ... "Compact fluorescent lamps, which will gradually replace traditional incandescent bulbs, are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned... when a CFL can no longer produce light, the electronics in its base will still try to function, sometimes leading to overheating, smoke and fire." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1hjrLP2Ar Rule 1. Anything electrical can catch fire (and will at some point). Rule 2. Anything hot (like the surface of a light bulb) can start fires (and will at some point). CFLs have a long way to go to catch up with the number of fires started by incandescent bulbs including the super-hot linear halogen lamps that used to be used in torchieres. Still used, in my case anyway, and the bulbs are still available for sale. I have two of the 6' tall jobs bought years ago. One with a variable brightness control knob and the other a 3 stepped brightness knob. Neither came with a screen over the top and I'll admit, I didn't know about the retrofitting. These are very rarely used and are nowhere near any material that could catch fire due to the bulb. Read about this doozy of a fire caused by a halogen lamp -- and which resulted in the UL requirement that all torchiers using halogen lamps were required to have guards over the lamp and that existing torchiers had to be retrofitted. http://articles.latimes.com/1997-01-...on-s-apartment See the CU/UL report on the CFL safety subject: http://174.129.132.250/safety/2010/0...ul-report.html Tomsic -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeros after @ |
CFLs can catch fire. Murder, death, kill. Your dog, too.
On Dec 27, 6:48*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
"Compact fluorescent lamps, which will gradually replace traditional incandescent bulbs, are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned... when a CFL can no longer produce light, the electronics in its base will still try to function, sometimes leading to overheating, smoke and fire." Ok, so who sells a tin can to cover the base with? |
CFLs can catch fire. Murder, death, kill. Your dog, too.
On Dec 27, 10:48*am, willshak wrote:
. wrote the following: "HeyBub" wrote in message ... "Compact fluorescent lamps, which will gradually replace traditional incandescent bulbs, are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned... when a CFL can no longer produce light, the electronics in its base will still try to function, sometimes leading to overheating, smoke and fire." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...zard-fears-com.... Rule 1. *Anything electrical can catch fire (and will at some point). Rule 2. *Anything hot (like the surface of a light bulb) can start fires (and will at some point). CFLs have a long way to go to catch up with the number of fires started by incandescent bulbs including the super-hot linear halogen lamps that used to be used in torchieres. Still used, in my case anyway, and the bulbs are still available for sale.. I have two of the 6' tall jobs bought years ago. One with a variable brightness control knob and the other a 3 stepped brightness knob. Neither came with a screen over the top and I'll admit, I didn't know about the retrofitting. These are very rarely used and are nowhere near any material that could catch fire due to the bulb. Read about this doozy of a fire caused by a halogen lamp -- and which resulted in the UL requirement that all torchiers using halogen lamps were required to have guards over the lamp and that existing torchiers had to be retrofitted. http://articles.latimes.com/1997-01-...lionel-hampton... See the CU/UL report on the CFL safety subject: http://174.129.132.250/safety/2010/0...ul-report.html Tomsic -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeros after @- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Halogens are inherently more fire-prone due to their extremely high operating temperature which is transferred to the glass envelope. Anything touching the envelope is almost guaranteed to catch fire or at least smoulder. That is not true of any CFL that I have ever seen. |
CFLs can catch fire. Murder, death, kill. Your dog, too.
On Dec 27, 7:48*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
"Compact fluorescent lamps, which will gradually replace traditional incandescent bulbs, are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned... when a CFL can no longer produce light, the electronics in its base will still try to function, sometimes leading to overheating, smoke and fire." *http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...zard-fears-com.... Ive replaced several that had evidence of jets of flame shooting out of them. Jimmie |
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