Re: Defective Bulb Tripping Ckt Breaker: How Possible ?

Ancient_Hacker wrote:
James Sweet wrote:


This is one more thing I like about compact fluorescents, when they fail
they don't blow with a bright flash and a pop which is always a
startling experience when you flip on the only light in a dark room.


Right, they blow with a considerable BANG and a bad smell. The CFL in
my wife's bedside lamp did that. Of course I had to open it up and see
what happened. The first capacitor of the voltage-doubler ( a tiny
10uf cap ) had popped. Really popped. It spread black goo all over
the insides of the thing.



Interesting, well I suppose it could happen, in 8 years of using them almost exclusively mine so far have all just failed to turn on, save for one that made a soft buzzing noise and let out a puff of stinky smoke.
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