In January I installed 12 Feit bulbs, mostly in the living room. They
are on 12-14 hours a day. Today the one in the lamp beside my chair
died. It dimmed, flickered and nearly went out. It is installed base
up. When I removed it the base was too hot to handle. The others
are mostly in lamps (base down) and do not feel as hot, but are
definitely warm.
These are the bulbs that were on sale at HD.
--
GW Ross
What do you get if you play New Age
music backwards? New Age music.
"G. Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
>In January I installed 12 Feit bulbs, mostly in the living room. They
>are on 12-14 hours a day. Today the one in the lamp beside my chair
>died. It dimmed, flickered and nearly went out. It is installed base
>up. When I removed it the base was too hot to handle. The others
>are mostly in lamps (base down) and do not feel as hot, but are
>definitely warm.
>
>These are the bulbs that were on sale at HD.
I assume they are 60W equiv? The extreme heat difference may be due
to the catastrophic failure of the electronics within the base of
the failed unit. wonder if you took one of the 'good' bulbs and put
it in the lamp for an hour (or more) and checked the temp ...
Spalted Walt wrote:
> "G. Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>In January I installed 12 Feit bulbs, mostly in the living room. They
>>are on 12-14 hours a day. Today the one in the lamp beside my chair
>>died. It dimmed, flickered and nearly went out. It is installed base
>>up. When I removed it the base was too hot to handle. The others
>>are mostly in lamps (base down) and do not feel as hot, but are
>>definitely warm.
>>
>>These are the bulbs that were on sale at HD.
>
> I assume they are 60W equiv? The extreme heat difference may be due
> to the catastrophic failure of the electronics within the base of
> the failed unit. wonder if you took one of the 'good' bulbs and put
> it in the lamp for an hour (or more) and checked the temp ...
>
I have two over the sink base up that burn about 8 hr/day. Checked
them and they were only warm.
--
GW Ross
What do you get if you play New Age
music backwards? New Age music.
On 9/3/2016 6:09 PM, G. Ross wrote:
> In January I installed 12 Feit bulbs, mostly in the living room. They
> are on 12-14 hours a day. Today the one in the lamp beside my chair
> died. It dimmed, flickered and nearly went out. It is installed base
> up. When I removed it the base was too hot to handle. The others are
> mostly in lamps (base down) and do not feel as hot, but are definitely
> warm.
>
> These are the bulbs that were on sale at HD.
Hot would be a concern BUT hopefully not any hotter than an incandescent
bulb would have been.
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 10:44:35 -0400
"G. Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have two over the sink base up that burn about 8 hr/day. Checked
> them and they were only warm.
how many watts are they