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Aftermath of this chinese junk in my hostel I have a lot of experience with these LUXTEN branded chinese incandescent lamps in my hostel. When they reaches EOL, they usually don't explodes. But they do makes a very loud and frightening BOOM sound and trip the circuit breaker. Also, you can see the etch of this lamp. It contains only 3 words: LUXTEN, 75W and 230V. Most of the lamps of these brand that sold in Israel are 100W, and i think that clear incandescent lamps of 100W and over are banned also in Israel and not only in the EU. I was yesterday (21.Oct.2010) in ACE in Canyon Haifa mall, and they hadn't any incandescent lamp of 100W and over anymore Keywords: Lamps

Aftermath of this chinese junk in my hostel

I have a lot of experience with these LUXTEN branded chinese incandescent lamps in my hostel. When they reaches EOL, they usually don't explodes. But they do makes a very loud and frightening BOOM sound and trip the circuit breaker.
Also, you can see the etch of this lamp. It contains only 3 words: LUXTEN, 75W and 230V.
Most of the lamps of these brand that sold in Israel are 100W, and i think that clear incandescent lamps of 100W and over are banned also in Israel and not only in the EU.
I was yesterday (21.Oct.2010) in ACE in Canyon Haifa mall, and they hadn't any incandescent lamp of 100W and over anymore

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Filename:IMG_0951.JPG
Album name:dor123 / Lamps
Keywords:Lamps
Company and Date Manufactured:Unknown (LUXTEN branded), China
Wattage:75W
Lamp Type:Low cost pear clear incandescent lamp
Filesize:181 KiB
Date added:Oct 22, 2010
Dimensions:1600 x 1200 pixels
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Color Space:sRGB
DateTime Original:2010:10:19 13:06:54
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Exposure Time:1/200 sec
FNumber:f/2.7
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:6.2 mm
ISO:100
Make:Canon
Max Aperture:f/2.7
Model:Canon PowerShot A1100 IS
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GullWhiz   [Oct 22, 2010 at 03:24 PM]
ACE as in Hardware store? Cuz we have ACE in North America!
Silverliner14B   [Oct 22, 2010 at 07:15 PM]
Does this bulb have fuses? If the lead wires in the stem above the base are the same diameter the whole way, not a thinner wire welded to a larger wire, then there are no fuses. Bad enough for 120v, worse for 230v. One time at work I had a Chinese 40w bulb arc at end of life and the lack of fuses caused a bright blue flash and it chipped a piece off the stem press.
TiCoune66   [Oct 22, 2010 at 09:29 PM]
I've seen the bright blue flash at EOL many times (I even purposely flashed a couple of lamps LOL), the fuse usually opens quickly. But adding a fuse is more expensive, sooooo....... yeah kinda easy to figure out Razz
dor123   [Oct 23, 2010 at 08:23 AM]
Jace, the ACE chain of stores in Israel, is the israeli branch of the US ACE Hardware, like the Office Depot, McDonald's and Dominos Pizza we have in Israel.
Dave, i don't know how to find fuses in incandescent and halogen lamps. However by how this LUXTEN lamp finished its life (Like all other LUXTEN incandescent lamps), i bet that it haven't any fuse.
If the incandescent lamp have only the main fuse, the arc may be appear on the fuse itself, sometime cause the lamp to disconnect from it base and fall to the floor, while the base alone remains screwed into the socket, as happend me with our mushroom shaped krypton white finished incandescent lamps from GE, Hungary.
@TiCoune66: The flash of the arc is usually more of a white color and not a blue color, as seen by me.

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