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Breaking the EU incandescent ban in Carmel hospital LOL
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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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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
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.
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.
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).