I had an idea to put an old 4 foot flu lamp on top of my kitchen cupboards to give a decent light enough to see to get a drink etc without turning on the main 8 foot flu lamp. The 4 footer was rated at 36 Watts the 8 foot one at 100 Watts so I thought I could leave the little one on for a few hours without racking up my bill too much. Anyhow I left it running this evening I just went out there my kitchen smells of burning and the fitting is super hot it burnt my finger. Also it tripped the RCD For that socket circuit The fitting was on its side whilst lit that should of been OK don't understand why it died. I tried powering it again around 2 seconds after plugging in the rcd tripped again Grrrr
Il admit I know virtually nothing about lighting design I just used to install other peoples ideas unless they were down right dangerouse of course. I put the flu lamp on the cupboard on a whim really I was just playing. As its only me here I don't think I need to be too fussy! Il admit the original idea was I was going to try to color the tube using marker pens as a sort of home made disco lamp but the color the pens gave was woefully inadequet so then I had the idea of putting it on the cupboard had the lamp lived I would of tidied up the wiring and left it there. Just my luck I had a carp fitting
Il admit I know virtually nothing about lighting design I just used to install other peoples ideas unless they were down right dangerouse of course. I put the flu lamp on the cupboard on a whim really I was just playing. As its only me here I don't think I need to be too fussy! Il admit the original idea was I was going to try to color the tube using marker pens as a sort of home made disco lamp but the color the pens gave was woefully inadequet so then I had the idea of putting it on the cupboard had the lamp lived I would of tidied up the wiring and left it there. Just my luck I had a carp fitting
