"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/14/2016 at 14:41 • Filed to: Light Bulbs, Electricity
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/14/2016 at 14:41 • Filed to: Light Bulbs, Electricity | 0
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I’ve repaired an electrical thing replaced a light bulb.
This is the one that went in.
Now, how many clues do we see that this operation didn’t take place in America?
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> Cé hé sin
11/14/2016 at 14:54 |
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Original poster.
No screw socket.
No 110/120V.
50 -60Hz.
Lumens marked along with Watts.
Not a spiral bulb (though we do get these, the spirals are way more common)
Mattbob
> Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
11/14/2016 at 15:22 |
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50-60 hz is pretty common wherever, including the US, I would say just the goofy socket and voltage rating are the only things that really denote non-US
duurtlang
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11/14/2016 at 15:44 |
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That’s a weird socket. Anyway, I don’t see any legacy ‘freedom’ units. It’s not a simple bulb but something more efficient, complex and expensive so that’s rather unamerican.
Svend
> Cé hé sin
11/14/2016 at 15:50 |
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It’s a proper bayonet fitting,
It’s a proper 220-235 voltage
So many things are going over to screw thread, I’m not used to it. Just doesn’t seem right.
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> duurtlang
11/14/2016 at 16:34 |
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That’s a bayonet fitting, the usual one used for domestic lighting in Ireland and the UK. It’s also used in automotive bulbs, headlights excepted. And bayonets presumably.
The Americans do in fact use the same units (except for lumens, I’m told). What they don’t use is 230 or so volts.
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> Svend
11/14/2016 at 16:52 |
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In my experience screw fittings, while a nuisance to use as you’re standing there on a chair for ages, are less prone to damage than bayonet ones.
facw
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11/14/2016 at 18:19 |
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Lumens are getting more common here. Traditionally, we’ve used wattage as a measure of brightness, but with incandescent lamps that really doesn’t make sense, so lumens are normally listed on the package. That said, basically no one could tell you how bright a 1200 lumen lamp is, and the primary metric on the packaging is to tell you that it is a 100W equivalent or whatever.
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> facw
11/14/2016 at 18:58 |
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It’s the same here. People go by the wattage even though it’s increasingly meaningless with LEDs and what have you.