RE: Light Bulb Life, was: Re: Re: [Development] Lights functions required

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

*grin* I have one of those ... it's a "Massive" branded kinda
"anglepoise"
lamp but with one of those 11w PL type bulbs. It's been in fairly much
daily
use since I started university back in 1988 and it still hasn't failed! I
spent about three years wondering where the hell I would find a replacement
bulb for it if it did die and then they suddenly became quite common.
Wonder
when it will eventually let go?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 June 2001 21:49
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Light Bulb Life, was: Re: [ukha_d] Re: [Development] Lights
> functions required
>
>
> Ahhhh swapping lightbulbs....
>
> Greatest success story has to be the folded flouro in my Mum's
kitchen.
>
> When they had just came out, I went out and bought one (a Phillips 60W
> equivelant if I remember) and brought it home. I was still living at
home,
> at the end of my third year at university, which makes it Winter 1991,
and
> it is *still* going strong :)
>
> She often comments that she has had to change (in her perception)
Hundreds
> of bulbs throughout the house, whilst this one just goes on and on and
> on....
>
> It will be a shame when it finally does fail, as it has been there
longer
> than any family pet we ever had!
>
> Ian.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
> >Bulbs have a life of say 1000 hours on average. Some will fail at
900,
> > 950, 1000, 1050,1100 etc. All the initial set of bulbs will
> fail within a
> > fairly short timespan. As they get replaced the intervals will
space
> > themselves out. If you have 12 bulbs on a circuit you will
replace 12
> bulbs
> > every 1000 hours, over time it will average out to be one every
80-100
> > hours.
>
>
>
>
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