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Breaking the EU incandescent ban in Carmel hospital LOL These "Luxten" branded incandescent lamps in the storage of Carmel hospital, are relatively new, and as such breaking the EU incandescent ban of today which makes the 100W and over, illegal. The hebrew printing is probably to defeat the ban, since the importer of these lamps located in Umm El-Fahm arabic village. Unfortunately these lamps are also exist in my hostel, and are installed by our maintenance, which are also arabics. These lamps tends to turn into an arc lamp at their EOL, explode and trip the main switch, so i bet that they are illegaly imported. Keywords: Lamps

Breaking the EU incandescent ban in Carmel hospital LOL

These "Luxten" branded incandescent lamps in the storage of Carmel hospital, are relatively new, and as such breaking the EU incandescent ban of today which makes the 100W and over, illegal.
The hebrew printing is probably to defeat the ban, since the importer of these lamps located in Umm El-Fahm arabic village.
Unfortunately these lamps are also exist in my hostel, and are installed by our maintenance, which are also arabics.
These lamps tends to turn into an arc lamp at their EOL, explode and trip the main switch, so i bet that they are illegaly imported.

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Filename:IMG_0594.jpg
Album name:dor123 / Lamps
Keywords:Lamps
Company and Date Manufactured:"LUXTEN", China
Model Number:None
Wattage:100W
Lamp Type:Smuggled clear A shaped incandescent lamp
Filesize:233 KiB
Date added:Oct 05, 2010
Dimensions:1200 x 1600 pixels
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DateTime Original:2010:07:29 09:59:19
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Flash:Red Eye, Compulsory Flash
Focal length:6.2 mm
ISO:80
Make:Canon
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Model:Canon PowerShot A1100 IS
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Sailormoon_01_uk   [Oct 05, 2010 at 10:42 AM]
Hi dor123

I am not sure what the law's is for Lamps in the Middle East, according to Online Websites and Catalogues the Ban is only shown for Europe, and they still list 75 watt lamps and above, for Outside the EU Only, I guess this means they can be used in the Middle East Russia, Far East and the USA etc.

Anyway I found a legal loop hole that if the Lamps is for Special Lighting you can still buy and use them example in the UK almost All Airport Obstruction Lights still use 100 watt and Above Filament Lamps.

All the Best

Colin
dor123   [Oct 05, 2010 at 10:53 AM]
Israel today considered as belong to the EU and not to the middle east and i think that the the incandescents ban also happens in it.
These "LUXTEN" incandescent lamps, started to appear relativaly recently, and they don't appears like a legal importing. These lamp don't passed any standard, They have a very short life, its importer to Israel is from an arabic village where there is no supervision, these lamps tends to turn into an arc lamps at their EOL, explodes and trips the main switch. In short terms: dangerous and not safe for use.
rjluna2   [Oct 05, 2010 at 11:40 AM]
In other words, there is no safety fuse at the exhaust tube area? Most well made lamp usually have form of low melting point wire that destroy rapidly where the distance between wires increase as the resistance at the air also increase thereby dissipates the arc...
dor123   [Oct 05, 2010 at 11:56 AM]
@rjluna2: Yes.
This lamp is a "Shekel store" incandescent lamp. Despite this, the storage of Carmel hospital received many of these lamps, as well as the maintenance that maintains my hostel.
GullWhiz   [Oct 05, 2010 at 12:13 PM]
I also know in EU incandescent lamps tends to die violently......Not something you'll see in North America!
Sailormoon_01_uk   [Oct 05, 2010 at 07:35 PM]
it' possibly we use a higher voltage 230/240 volts which when the filament breaks it actually ignites the Gasfilling (Argon) thus causes the bulb to explode, older UK lamps were always fitted with 1 or 2 Ballotini Fuses (small glass fuses in the lamp stem which eliminated the bulb exploding but as now Lamps are made in China etc they would now fail safety standards which resullts to bulb exploding violently, at least they dont give out toxic materials unlike the Compact Fluorescent Lamps which have Phosphurs which can damage your Lungs, Mercury which is Toxic and KR85 a radioactive gas.
dor123   [Oct 06, 2010 at 06:01 AM]
Yes, the high voltage of our mains supply is high enough to produce an arc in the lamp, when the filament break, especially with argon filled incandescent lamps.
Colin, Kr85 used only in CMH and several QMH lamps. Modern fluorescents and CFLs just use pure krypton with an addition of argon.
Update: Btw, the importer of these lamps to Israel called "E. G. Inaernational" (The mistakes are originally).

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