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Exploded Incandescent Lamp bulbs were dusty.......wiped it with a wet cloth while they were hot.....next time the bulbs were powered on it went POP. Keywords: Miscellaneous

Exploded Incandescent Lamp

bulbs were dusty.......wiped it with a wet cloth while they were hot.....next time the bulbs were powered on it went POP.

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File information
Filename:Misc_007.JPG
Album name:Form109 / Miscellaneous
Keywords:Miscellaneous
Filesize:859 KiB
Date added:Jan 16, 2011
Dimensions:2055 x 2176 pixels
Displayed:176 times
Color Space:sRGB
Contrast:0
DateTime Original:2011:01:14 19:34:42
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Exposure Mode:0
Exposure Program:Program
Exposure Time:1/60 sec
FNumber:f/5.6
Flash:Flash, Auto-Mode
Focal length:24 mm
ISO:400
Light Source:Unknown: 0
Make:Sony
Max Aperture:f/4
Model:DSLR-A230
URL:http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=4707
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gailgrove   [Jan 16, 2011 at 01:17 AM]
Shocked
rjluna2   [Jan 16, 2011 at 01:21 AM]
These are soft glass and they don't like sudden temperature changes of the thermal expansion. Hence, that is why there are bunch of warning message on those high power bulbs and Mercury/Sodium/Halide bulb packages.
gailgrove   [Jan 16, 2011 at 01:23 AM]
Come to think of it, I had this happen to me once too Neutral
RCM   [Jan 16, 2011 at 03:04 AM]
I've had this happen too! except, I didn't wipe mine off! Shocked
Form109   [Jan 16, 2011 at 04:57 AM]
sometimes we've experienced random bulb explosions....this time i just thermal shocked the glass by cooling it off suddenly while it was hot....those other times we had bulbs pop for no apparent reason. Shocked
A_lights   [Jan 16, 2011 at 05:31 AM]
Well then Cfls areent that dangerous Razz
gmercury2000   [Jan 16, 2011 at 06:48 AM]
Ive had this happen too, But it was because I hooked it up to my 15kv trans Laughing
Medved   [Jan 16, 2011 at 07:53 AM]
Incandescent explosions happened regularly at EOL in my parent's home when they used them (more then 15 years are everywhere, except bathroom, some kind of fluorescents), but the glass shatter everywhere...
@A-lights: Close filament area they are...
dor123   [Jan 16, 2011 at 10:51 AM]
Seems more like air had entered this lamp, becuase of the strange blackening on it.
This lamp exploded, because you wiped it with a wet cloth, and operated it, when it was wet.
Most type of glass except borosilicate type glass, shatters when they are exposed to thermal differences.
Form109   [Jan 16, 2011 at 07:10 PM]
more like i wiped a hot lamp,that then cracked it,by the time the bulb was opperated again the lamp was dry.
lightkid   [Mar 18, 2011 at 10:15 PM]
is there water in it ?
Form109   [Mar 18, 2011 at 10:36 PM]
no water in it.

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