"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

"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

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.

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.. 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




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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeros after @

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?

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.

"hr(bob) " wrote in message
...
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.

A halogen filament tube enclosed in an outer glass bulb such as the halogen
replacements for the standard 100 watt bulbs actually operate cooler than
the standard 100 watt bulbs. I was interested in the subject and so asked
the manufacturers for bulb temperature profiles.

It makes sense because, for the same size bulb, the halogen only draws 72
watts instead of the 100 watts drawn by the standard bulb. That results in
less heat overall and a lowr bulb temperatue.

However, any standard incandescent bulb is going to be more likely to start
a fire due to the temperature of the bulb compared to a CFL.

Tomsic

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