Lightbulb police? (was RE: Anyone off to VCF-UK)

[dwight elvey]

> From: classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
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> 
> I used to have a couple of first-gen "energy saver" fluorescent bulbs 
> that were sent to me by (IIRC) National Power as part of some promotion 
> or contest. They were two-piece units -- you had the screw or 
> bayonet-fit ballast, and a separate, removable (via a 4-pin plug and 
> latch arrangement) fluorescent tube. So when the fluoro tube died, you 
> just bought a new one and swapped it over. Equally you could buy a new 
> ballast, but only as part of a set with a new tube...
> 
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Hi
 I had a few of these. 100% of my failures were the base and not the bulb.
Dwight

 		 	   		  
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