New Type Lamp holder.

Mornin' all, on this bright and breezy morning,


here in the backwoods where I live, I come across lots of old electrical stuff. But yesterday I came upon something very new that I have never seen before. I had to remove a ceiling lighting pendant set in a kitchen of a new house to fit the customer's new light fitting (luminaire). The pendant set comprised a circular round white ceiling rose, a short length of white two core flex, and a lamp holder. This was no ordinary lamp holder such as a B.C. or E.S. type. It was a GU10 type. I have never come across a GU10 lamp holder in a pendant set before. The lamp holder had a special L.E.D. lamp fitted with a GU10 cap, but was like a traditional G.L.S. type lamp in style to give a good all round spread of light output.


The benefits I can see are:


 1. Only energy efficient lamps can be fitted.


2. The lamp holder will prevent inadvertent touching of live parts.


The disadvantage is that now a new line of GU10 lamps has to be made and stocked, suited to pendant use.


Waddaufink?


Z.