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New Type Lamp holder.

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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?


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    The 'flicker' lamps, that seemed to be an ordinary filament lamp in series with something like a florry starter had 3 bayonet ears, as did a self ballasting mercury lamp I used to make a pcb UV exposure unit. I think it mainly denoted 'non standard' or 'here be dragons'.

    you could get orange painted ordinary lamps, and the fires that took those often had a little tin can fan driven by convection, to give the flicker.

    needless to say this soon jammed up with fluff.

    Also at some point ordinary bayonet caps used to be on the ends of florry tubes before they went bi-pin,  but I only remember swapping them for the new kind, in 1980 something as by then the tubes with the right ends were no longer available
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    The 'flicker' lamps, that seemed to be an ordinary filament lamp in series with something like a florry starter had 3 bayonet ears, as did a self ballasting mercury lamp I used to make a pcb UV exposure unit. I think it mainly denoted 'non standard' or 'here be dragons'.

    you could get orange painted ordinary lamps, and the fires that took those often had a little tin can fan driven by convection, to give the flicker.

    needless to say this soon jammed up with fluff.

    Also at some point ordinary bayonet caps used to be on the ends of florry tubes before they went bi-pin,  but I only remember swapping them for the new kind, in 1980 something as by then the tubes with the right ends were no longer available
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