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Aftermath of this chinese junk in my hostel
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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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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.