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The overall construction of those LUXTEN junks
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This is a LUXTEN branded chinese 75W new incandescent lamp in my hostel. It have only one fuse in the glass stem. When the lamp reach EOL, this situation, in 230V mains, may cause a secondary arc in the fuse which in turns, may cause (if the capping cement was deteriorated or poorly made) the lamp to eject from its base like a bullet, with a shower of sparks after it, leaving the base of the lamps into the socket of the fixture.
In my hostel, most of the time, those LUXTEN lamps rarely did this. But they did made a very loud boom sound, and tripped the circuit breaker.
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