Light Bulb Life, was: Re: Re: [Development] Lights functions required

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Ahhhh swapping lightbulbs....

Greatest success story has to be the folded flouro in my Mum's kitchen.

When they had just came out, I went out and bought one (a Phillips 60W
equivelant if I remember) and brought it home. I was still living at home,
at the end of my third year at university, which makes it Winter 1991, and
it is *still* going strong :)

She often comments that she has had to change (in her perception) Hundreds
of bulbs throughout the house, whilst this one just goes on and on and
on....

It will be a shame when it finally does fail, as it has been there longer
than any family pet we ever had!

Ian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
>Bulbs have a life of say 1000 hours on average. Some will fail at 900,
> 950, 1000, 1050,1100 etc. All the initial set of bulbs will fail
within a
> fairly short timespan. As they get replaced the intervals will space
> themselves out. If you have 12 bulbs on a circuit you will replace 12
bulbs
> every 1000 hours, over time it will average out to be one every 80-100
> hours.





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